Video game personalisation techniques: A comprehensive survey

Entertainment Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 211-218

  Karpinskyj, Stephen ^a   Zambetta, Fabio ^a   Cavedon, Lawrence ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Personalisation; Player preferences; Video games

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GAMES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SURVEYS;

CUSTOMISATION; GAME DESIGN; GAME STUDIES; PERSONALISATION; PLAYER PREFERENCES; PLAYING STYLE; SKILL LEVELS; VIDEO GAME;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84907845372     PISSN: 18759521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2014.09.002     Document Type: Review

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