Measuring presence in video games: An investigation of the potential use of physiological measures as indicators of presence

T Terkildsen, G Makransky - International journal of human-computer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Presence has become an increasingly central component of Games User Research (GUR)
as developments in technology continuously make modern video games more conducive to …

Vanishing scares: biofeedback modulation of affective player experiences in a procedural horror game

PA Nogueira, V Torres, R Rodrigues, E Oliveira… - Journal on Multimodal …, 2016 - Springer
To understand the impact of emotionally driven games on player experience, we developed
a procedural horror game (Vanish) capable of run-time level, asset, and event generation …

Affect recognition using psychophysiological correlates in high intensity vr exergaming

SC Barathi, M Proulx, E O'Neill, C Lutteroth - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
User experience estimation of VR exergame players by recognising their affective state
could enable us to personalise and optimise their experience. Affect recognition based on …

Guided emotional state regulation: understanding and shaping players' affective experiences in digital games

P Nogueira, R Rodrigues, E Oliveira… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2013 - ojs.aaai.org
Designing adaptive games for individual emotional experiences is a tricky task, especially
when detecting a player's emotional state in real time requires physiological sensing …

A hybrid approach at emotional state detection: Merging theoretical models of emotion with data-driven statistical classifiers

PA Nogueira, R Rodrigues, E Oliveira… - 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rising popularity of affective computing techniques, there have been several
advances in the field of emotion recognition systems. However, despite the several …

Real-time psychophysiological emotional state estimation in digital gameplay scenarios

PA Nogueira, R Rodrigues, E Oliveira - … 13-16, 2013 Proceedings, Part I …, 2013 - Springer
Despite the rising number of emotional state detection methods motivated by the popularity
increase in affective computing techniques in recent years, they are yet faced with subject …

An annotation tool for automatically triangulating individuals' psychophysiological emotional reactions to digital media stimuli

PA Nogueira, V Torres, R Rodrigues, E Oliveira - Entertainment Computing, 2015 - Elsevier
Current affective user experience studies require both laborious and time-consuming data
analysis, as well as dedicated affective classification algorithms. Moreover, the high …

Development of biofeedback mechanisms in a procedural environment using biometric sensors

VP Torres - 2013 - search.proquest.com
Ao longo da evolução da indústria de videojogos, os controladores de jogo utilizados nunca
tiveram grande variação, apenas modificações dos periféricos mais utilizados como rato …

Modelling human emotion in interactive environments: Physiological ensemble and grounded approaches for synthetic agents

PA Nogueira, R Rodrigues, E Oliveira… - Web …, 2015 - content.iospress.com
With the rising research in emotionally believable agents, several advances in agent
technology have been made, ranging from interactive virtual agents to emotional …

Multimodal vs. unimodal physiological control in videogames for enhanced realism and depth

GA da Silva - arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0532, 2014 - arxiv.org
(arXiv abridged abstract) In the last two decades, videogames have evolved in a nearly
explosive way from the pixelated graphics to today's near-realistic 3D environments. The …