Emotion in games : theory and praxis /: theory and praxis. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kostas Karpouzis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, editors.
• Editors: Karpouzis, Kostas; Yannakakis, Georgios N
• Contents: Foreword; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Part I Theory; 1 The Aesthetic Motives of Play; Introduction; Cautions About Asking `Why'; Uncertainty as the Foundation of Play; General Motives; The Social Motive; The Thrill-Seeking Motive; The Curiosity Motive; Functional Motives; The Victory Motive; The Problem-Solving Motive; The Luck Motive; The Acquisition Motive; Representational Motives; The Narrative Motive; The Horror Motive; The Agency Motive; Conclusion; References; 2 Affect Channel Model of Evaluation in the Context of Digital Games; Introduction; Background; Model Details Building BlocksOrganization; Affect Channels; The Model; Pre-stimulus Level (L0); Reflexes (L1); Survival Evaluation (L2); Evaluation of Predicted Consequences (L3); Conceptual Evaluations and Further (L4+); Final Words; References; 3 Affective Involvement in Digital Games; Introduction; The Bottom-Up Experience Triangle; The Player Involvement Model; A Quantitative Perspective; Experimental Design; Experiment 1: Game Story; Experiment 2: Social Setting; Experiment 3: Game Controller; Measures; Results; Impact of Manipulations on Player Involvement; Experiment 1: Game Story Experiment 2: Social SettingExperiment 3: Game Controller; Combining Affective Involvement; Experiment 1: Game Story; Narrative Involvement and Affective Involvement; Ludic Involvement and Affective Involvement; Experiment 2: Social Setting; Shared Involvement and Affective Involvement; Experiment 3: Game Controller; Kinesthetic Involvement and Affective Involvement; Spatial Involvement and Affective Involvement; Conclusion; References; Part II Emotion Modelling and Affect-Driven Adaptation; 4 Multimodal Sensing in Affective Gaming; Introduction; Affective Gaming; Sources of Affect Vision-BasedFacial Expressions; Body Expressivity; Haptics; Wearable Games; Affective Evaluation of Players; Affective Interaction in Games; Existing Commercial Games; Affective Gaming Scenarios and Challenges; Affective Gaming Scenarios; Affective Gaming Challenges; Applications of Affective Games; Conclusions; References; 5 Emotion Modelling via Speech Content and Prosody: In Computer Games and Elsewhere; Introduction; Emotion Modelling; Emotion and Games; Speech Content; Speech Recognition and Emotion; Textual Features; Tokenisation and Tagging; Vector Space Modelling Zero-Resource ModellingLearning; Prosodic and Acoustic Modelling; Speaker Separation and Denoising; Prosodic and Acoustic Features; Zero-Resource Modelling; Learning; Integration and Embedding; Fusion; Available Tools; Data and Benchmarks; Distribution; Confidence Measures; Adaptation and Self-Training; Encoding and Standards; Summary and White Spots; Summary; White Spots; References; 6 Comparing Two Commercial Brain Computer Interfaces for Serious Games and Virtual Environments; What Are Brain-Computer Interfaces?; Neuroimaging Techniques for BCI Systems
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 338 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 794.8; Medicine; Video games -- Design; Computer games -- Psychological aspects; Video games -- Social aspects; Computer games -- Social aspects; Neurosciences; Computer science; Education; Artificial intelligence; Social sciences_xData processing; Computer games -- Psychological aspects; Computer games -- Social aspects; Video games -- Design; Video games -- Social aspects; GAMES / Board; Computers -- User Interfaces; Education -- Computers & Technology; Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Computers -- Data Processing; User interface design & usability; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); Artificial intelligence; Society & social sciences; Medical -- Neuroscience; Neurosciences; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319413167; 3319413163
• Related ISBNs: 9783319413143; 3319413147
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.