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 …

Strategies aimed at keeping the user's interest in using computer applications are being
studied to provide greater user engagement, and can influence how people interact with …

Who said that violent video games cannot promote calm behavior? Could we reverse
engineer the difficulty system of a horror game to encourage the player to stay calm as …

Physiological sensing has been a prominent fixture in games user research (GUR) since the
late 1990s, when researchers started to explore its potential to enhance and understand …

This review investigated research works on affective computing by using electrocardiogram
(ECG) and electrodermal activity (EDA). The 27 related research papers, including 23 from …

A video game is an interactive software able to arouse intense emotions in players.
Consequentially, different theories have been proposed to understand which game aspects …

Background and objective Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease (PD) present a
reduction in facial movements called hypomimia. In this work, we propose to use machine …

As part of the Dutch national science program “Professional Games for Professional Skills”
we developed a stress-exposure biofeedback training in virtual reality (VR) for the Dutch …

Evidence shows that emotions critically influence human decision-making. Therefore,
emotion-regulation using biofeedback has been extensively investigated. Nevertheless …

Background The addition of biofeedback and artificial intelligence (AI) in simulation training
and serious games has shown promising results in improving the effectiveness of training …