Emotion in Games Theory and Praxis /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Karpouzis, Kostas (Editor), Yannakakis, Georgios N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Socio-Affective Computing, 4
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Education > Data processing.; Educational technology.; Biomedicine.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Educational Technology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computers and Education.

The core message of this book is: computer games best realise affective interaction. This book brings together contributions from specialists in affective computing, game studies, game artificial intelligence, user experience research, sensor technology, multi-modal interfaces and psychology that wi...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Part I Theory
• The Aesthetic Motives of Play
• Affect Channel Model of Evaluation in the context of digital games
• Affective Involvement in Digital Games
• PART II - Emotion Modelling and Affect-Driven Adaptation
• Multimodal sensing in affective gaming
• Emotion Modelling via Speech Content and Prosody – in Computer Games and Elsewhere
• Comparing two commercial brain computer interfaces for serious games and virtual environments
• Psychophysiology in Games
• Emotion and Attitude Modeling for Non-player Characters
• Emotion-driven Level Generation
• Emotion-Driven Narrative Generation
• Game Cinematography: from Camera Control to Player Emotions
• From Sinewaves to Physiologically-Adaptive Soundscapes: The Evolving Relationship between Sound and Emotion in Video Games
• Emotional Appraisal Engines for Games
• Part III Applications
• Emotion and Body-based Games: Overview and Opportunities
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the role of computer games in treatment of PTSD
• Understanding and Designing for Conflict Learning Through Games
• Games robots play: once more, with feeling
• Lovotics: Love and Sex with Robots
• Index.