Creating an emotionally adaptive game

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

Volumn 5309, Issue , 2008, Pages 122-133

  Tijs, Tim ^a   Brokken, Dirk ^b   Ijsselsteijn, Wijnand ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; Affective loop; Computer games; Emotions; Personalization; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

MECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTIVITY; AFFECTIVE LOOP; DATA FEATURE; EMOTIONAL STATE; EMOTIONALLY ADAPTIVE GAMES; EMOTIONS; PERSONALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 57349151694     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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