This paper attempts to provide a detailed overview of the latest advancements in the field of
game difficulty adaptation and experience personalization within the years 2005–2021 from …

Statistical Significance Testing--or Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST)--is common
to quantitative CHI PLAY research. Drawing from recent work in HCI and psychology …

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

Video game analytics are widely adopted within academia and industrial development–yet,
the player's perspective is rarely considered as a driving factor, even though vast …

Balancing the options available to players in a way that ensures rich variety and viability is a
vital factor for the success of any video game, and particularly competitive multiplayer …

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 …

Fear is a basic human emotion that can be triggered by different situations, which vary from
person to person. However, game developers usually design horror games based on a …

Identifying explainable player strategies and decision patterns that give insights into player
behavior is one of the most difficult tasks for game analytics, yet yields great informative …

Advances in speech recognition, language processing and natural interaction have led to an
increased industrial and academic interest. While the robustness and usability of such …

Balancing games and producing content that remains interesting and challenging is a main
cost factor in the design and maintenance of games. Dynamic difficulty adjustments (DDA) …