Video games are one of the richest and most popular forms of human-computer interaction
and, hence, their role is critical for our understanding of human behaviour and affect at a …

This article surveys the current state-of-the-art in affective computing (AC) principles,
methods, and tools as applied to games. We review this emerging field, namely affective …

Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a major psychological theory of human motivation, has
become increasingly popular in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research on games and …

This paper reviews the field of Game AI, which not only deals with creating agents that can
play a certain game, but also with areas as diverse as creating game content automatically …

How can we model affect in a general fashion, across dissimilar tasks, and to which degree
are such general representations of affect even possible? To address such questions and …

Player motivation is a key research area within games research, with the aim of
understanding how the motivation of players is related to their experience and behavior in …

Video game testing has become a major investment of time, labor, and expense in the game
industry. Particularly the balancing of in-game units, characters, and classes can cause long …

What if emotion could be captured in a general and subject-agnostic fashion? Is it possible,
for instance, to design general-purpose representations that detect affect solely from the …

Iterative user-centred design has become a standard approach for develo** interactive
products. This process relies on prototy** and usertesting as early as possible to deliver a …

An emerging theme in artificial intelligence research is the creation of models to simulate the
decisions and behavior of specific people, in domains including game-playing, text …