Emotion in Games: Theory and Praxis (Socio-Affective Computing)

The core message of this book is: computer games best realise affective interaction. This book brings together contributions from specialists in affective computing, game studies, game artificial intelligence, user experience research, sensor technology, multi-modal interfaces and psychology that will advance the state-of-the-art in player experience research; affect modelling, induction, and sensing; affect-driven game adaptation and game-based learning and assessment. In 3 parts the books covers Theory, Emotion Modelling and Affect-Driven Adaptation, and Applications.

This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of game research, affective computing, human computer interaction, and artificial intelligence.