This paper systemically reviews and clarifies the state-of-the-art HRI evaluation studies
especially for the usability of social robots. A total of 36 articles were collected through a …

Improving game design is a hard task. Few methods are available in games user research
(GUR) to test formally how game designs work for players. In particular, the usefulness of …

Evaluating affective user experience in games is an important component of the growing
field of game user research, because compelling gameplay experiences incorporate …

Creating video games is a lengthy and demanding process. Financial success for games
studios often depends on making games that deliver a fun and engaging experience for a …

Many successful games rely heavily on data analytics to understand players and inform
design. Popular methodologies focus on machine learning and statistical analysis of …

This thesis explores the use of serious games from an instructor perspective. More
specifically, it aims to study the roles of instructors and how they can be facilitated within an …

We present an adaptive biofeedback game that aims to maintain the player's arousal by
modifying game difficulty in response to the player's physiological state, as measured with …

Since the worldly notable companies put serious investment in VR headsets in 2014,
everything about VR has reemerged from the deep of fiction-like prototypes to the surface of …

A major challenge in studying player experience is tying together the results of quantitative
and qualitative games user research (GUR) data. For example, combining data from players' …

We present an adaptive biofeedback game that aims to maintain the player's arousal level
by monitoring physiological signals. We use concepts from control theory to model the …