Social Interaction in Games: Measuring Physiological Linkage and Social Presence

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-338

  Ekman, Inger ^a   Chanel, Guillaume ^a   Järvelä, Simo ^a   Kivikangas, J Matias ^a   Salminen, Mikko ^a   Ravaja, Niklas ^b,c  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

digital games; emotion; game experience; methodology; multiple simultaneous players; physiological linkage; physiological metric; player experience assessment; psychophysiological methodology; social experience; social presence; synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862604239     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: 1552826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046878111422121     Document Type: Article

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