O' game, can you feel my frustration?: Improving user's gaming experience via stresscam

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2195-2204

  Yun, Chang ^a   Shastri, Dvijesh ^b   Pavlidis, Ioannis ^b   Deng, Zhigang ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Game difficulty adjustment; Human computer interaction; Stress monitoring; Thermal imaging; Video games

Indexed keywords

GAME DIFFICULTY ADJUSTMENT; GAMING EXPERIENCES; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; STRESS MONITORING; USABILITY EVALUATION; VIDEO GAME;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFRARED IMAGING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS MEASUREMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84892465174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1519036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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