How psychophysiology can aid the design process of casual games: A tale of stress, facial muscles, and paper beasts

Foundations of Digital Games 2012, FDG 2012 - Conference Program

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 149-155

  Gualeni, Stefano ^a   Janssen, Dirk ^a   Calvi, Licia ^a  

^a NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Casual games; Game evaluation; Psychophysiological measurements; User experience evaluation

Indexed keywords

CASUAL GAMES; CASUAL VIDEO; DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; DESIGN PROCESS; FACIAL MUSCLES; GAME EVALUATION; LEARNING CURVES; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; PRODUCTION CYCLE; STRESS LEVELS; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MUSCLE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84863952642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2282338.2282369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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