Game atmosphere and game audio are critical factors linked to the commercial success of
video games. However, game atmosphere has been neither operationalized nor clearly …

Virtual environments (VEs) can evoke and support emotions, as experienced when playing
emotionally arousing games. We theoretically approach the design of fear and joy evoking …

The purpose of this strategy of inquiry is to understand how emotions influence gameplay
and to review contemporary techniques to design for them in the aim of devising a model …

An upcoming trend of affective gaming is where a player's emotional state is used to
manipulate game play. This is an interesting field to explore especially for the survival horror …

The trend of multimodal interaction in interactive gaming has grown significantly as
demonstrated for example by the wide acceptance of the Wii Remote and the Kinect as tools …

Predicting the emotions evoked by generalized sound events is a relatively recent research
domain which still needs attention. In this work a framework aiming to reveal potential …

Why would anyone want to play a game designed to scare them? We argue that an alliance
between evolutionary theory and game studies can shed light on the forms and …

In this research, we investigated two important aspects of affective gaming, which are the
recognition of the player's affective states and the adaptation of the game based on the …

Virtual environments and games are often used to evoke positive emotions. Contrary the
survival horror genre aims to induce negative feelings in players. The effects of playing fear …

Emotion recognition from sound signals represents an emerging field of recent research.
Although many existing works focus on emotion recognition from music, there seems to be a …