Modeling player experience for content creation

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-67

  Pedersen, Christopher ^a   Togelius, Julian ^a   Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Content creation; Fun; Neuroevolution; Platform games; Player experience; Player satisfaction modeling; Preference learning

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE STATE; COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; CONTENT CREATION; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRONS; NEUROEVOLUTION; OPTIMIZE DESIGN; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; PREFERENCE DATA; PREFERENCE LEARNING; QUANTITATIVE MODELS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954986325     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2010.2043950     Document Type: Article

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