PADS: Enhancing gaming experience using Profile-based Adaptive Difficulty System

Proceedings - Sandbox 2010: 5th ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 31-35

  Yun, Chang ^a   Trevino, Philip ^a   Holtkamp, William ^a   Deng, Zhigang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficulty adjustment; Game difficulty; Gaming experience; Player profile; Player centric gaming

Indexed keywords

DIFFICULTY ADJUSTMENT; GAME DIFFICULTY; GAMING EXPERIENCES; PLAYER PROFILE; PLAYER-CENTRIC GAMING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77956285699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1836135.1836140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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