Emotion in Games: Theory and Praxis

ISBN-13: 9783319823218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 338 str.

Kostas Karpouzis; Georgios N. Yannakakis

Spis treści

Foreword

Preface

Part I Theory

1.       The Aesthetic Motives of Play

2.       Affect Channel Model of Evaluation in the context of digital games

3.       Affective Involvement in Digital Games

PART II - Emotion Modelling and Affect-Driven Adaptation

4.       Multimodal sensing in affective gaming

5.       Emotion Modelling via Speech Content and Prosody – in Computer Games and Elsewhere

6.       Comparing two commercial brain computer interfaces for serious games and virtual environments

7.       Psychophysiology in Games

8.       Emotion and Attitude Modeling for Non-player Characters

9.       Emotion-driven Level Generation

10.   Emotion-Driven Narrative Generation

11.   Game Cinematography: from Camera Control to Player Emotions

12.   From Sinewaves to Physiologically-Adaptive Soundscapes: The Evolving Relationship between Sound and Emotion in Video Games

13.   Emotional Appraisal Engines for Games

Part III Applications

14.   Emotion and Body-based Games: Overview and Opportunities

15.   Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the role of computer games in treatment of PTSD

16.   Understanding and Designing for Conflict Learning Through Games

17.   Games robots play: once more, with feeling

18.   Lovotics: Love and Sex with Robots

Index

Blurb

The core message of this book is: computer games best realise affective interaction. This book brings together contributions from specialists in affective computing, game studies, game artificial intelligence, user experience research, sensor technology, multi-modal interfaces and psychology that will advance the state-of-the-art in player experience research; affect modelling, induction, and sensing; affect-driven game adaptation and game-based learning and assessment. In 3 parts the books covers Theory, Emotion Modelling and Affect-Driven Adaptation, and Applications.

This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the field of affective computing, and artificial intelligence.