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26. An Introduction to Physiological Player Metrics for Evaluating Games

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Abstract

Evaluating affective user experience in games is an important component of the growing field of game user research, because compelling gameplay experiences incorporate meaningful and, therefore, emotional player decisions. This makes evaluating player emotions and player visceral physiological reactions a fascinating field of study for game researchers. With their recent success in the human factors domain, physiological metrics, which complement game metrics, have been successfully used to study player engagement and emotion in research and industry. This chapter provides a brief introduction to and primer of physiological measures currently used in game research and discusses the benefits and challenges of this quantitative method of game user research.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Visual Attention and Gaze Behavior in Games: An Object-Based Approach
Nächstes Kapitel Improving Gameplay with Game Metrics and Player Metrics
Fußnoten
1
A stimulus in psychological research is something (could be an event or an object) that evokes a body or mind response.
 
2
50/60 Hz is the electrical energy frequency that can come from lights, power supplies and other devices in your experiment environment.
 
3
Another way of analysing EEG is through Event-Related Potentials or Mu Rhythm, which I do not cover in this chapter.
 
5
For example, participants in an experiment cannot chew gum, laugh, or talk during facial EMG, because this will introduce large artifacts in your EMG data.
 
6
The usual processing procedure is signal smoothing (often at half of the recording frequency, for example 0.5 s at 2 kHz recordings), baseline subtraction, and sometimes a logarithmic normalization. Depending on the system, an additional bandpass filter (high: 10Hz, low: 400Hz) or a Butterworth lowpass filter of 500Hz are necessary.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
An Introduction to Physiological Player Metrics for Evaluating Games
verfasst von
Lennart E. Nacke
Copyright-Jahr
2013
Verlag
Springer London
Buch
Game Analytics

Print ISBN: 978-1-4471-4768-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4471-4769-5

Copyright-Jahr: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4769-5_26

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