Psychophysiological methods are becoming more popular in game research as covert and
reliable measures of affective player experience, emotions, and cognition. Since player
experience is not well understood, correlations between self-reports from players and
psychophysiological data may provide a quantitative understanding of this experience.
Measurements of electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate (HR) allow making inferences
about player arousal (ie, excitement) and are easy to deploy. This paper reports a case …