Dynamic game balancing by recognizing affect

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5294 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 88-93

  Tijs, Tim J W ^a   Brokken, Dirk ^b   Ijsselsteijn, Wijnand A ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective loop; Computer games; Emotionally adaptive games; Emotions; Game balancing; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AFFECTIVE LOOP; BALANCING TECHNIQUES; CHANGING PARAMETER; EMOTIONAL RESPONSE; EMOTIONALLY ADAPTIVE GAMES; EMOTIONS; GAME BALANCING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 57049162520     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88322-7_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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