In medicine, patients can obtain real benefits from a sham treatment. These benefits are
known as the placebo effect. We report two experiments (Experiment I: N= 369; Experiment …

This paper studies users' learning perception in a virtual titration experiment with
differentiated instruction. We develop a virtual reality chemistry lab and use leap motion to …

Increasingly, digital games are including adaptive features that adjust the level of difficulty to
match the skills of individual players. The intention is to improve and prolong the player …

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) is used by game designers to adaptively balance game
challenge against player skill during play. While many DDA implementations exist, few …

In this paper we study the possibility of influencing player performance in Tetris by varying
the tempo of the music. To keep a player in the flow, it is useful to be able to vary the difficulty …

Dynamic difficulty adjustment (DDA) is a set of techniques that aim to automatically adapt the
difficulty of a video game based on the player's performance. This article presents a …

As music tempo can influence human actions pace, we use tempi variations to vary the
difficulty in gaming situations based on the synchronization of events, like actions on moving …

Gameplay experience is shaped by players' expectations towards the game and how game
features are presented to them. We created two modified versions of the classic TETRIS …

In this study, we looked at playstyles in Tetris in order to explore how players construct
meaning in abstract video games. To do this, we looked at playstyles that go beyond metrics …

This paper studies the characteristics of dancecharts on rhythm-based video games while
clustering the dancecharts with the track features. In the opinion of expert players, it is …