Measuring emotional valence during interactive experiences

Hazlett, Richard L.

doi:10.1145/1124772.1124925

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“…Hazlett showed a relationship between players' physiological measures and in-game events. He found positive facial EMG activity to be higher during positive events, while negative facial EMG activity was greater during negative events [5,6]. Ravaja et al [17] also showed a relationship between in-game events and phasic responses in GSR, EMG and heart rate acceleration, and Nacke et al [14] showed that challenging game situations evoke positive affect and high arousal in players as measured by GSR and EMG.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influencing Experience: The Effects of Reading Game Reviews on Player Experience

Livingston

Nacke

Mandryk

2011

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2011

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Abstract. Game reviews are used by game developers for making business decisions and measuring the success of a title, and have been shown to affect player perception of game quality. We conducted a study where players read positive or negative reviews of a game before playing, and show that the valence of review text affected game ratings and that these differences could not be explained by mediating changes in mood. Although we show predictable changes in player experience over the course of the study (measured objectively through physiological sensors), there were no objective differences in experience depending on review valence. Our results suggest that reading reviews does not directly affect play experience, but rather is a post-play cognitive rationalization of the experience with the content of the review. Our results are important for understanding player experience and to the game industry where reviews and user forums affect a game's commercial success.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influencing Experience: The Effects of Reading Game Reviews on Player Experience

Livingston

Nacke

Mandryk

2011

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2011

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“…The paradigm adopts a MMORPG as the task for speakers to induce their emotion. The effect of a game to induce emotion was proved in earlier studies [20][21][22][23][24][25]. Emotion expressivity is the characteristic that vocal expression is influenced by induced emotion.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…To induce speaker's emotion, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) is adopted with reference to the research on emotion and decision making [20][21][22] and emotion studies for entertainment computing [23][24][25], and the subject's emotional response to the game is successfully induced. As our analytical interest is focused on speech, our goal is not just to induce the speaker's emotion but also to record naturalistic expressive utterances containing spontaneous emotion evoked in a usual environment for speakers.…”

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Naturalistic emotional speech collection paradigm with online game and its psychological and acoustical assessment

Arimoto

Kawatsu

Ohno

et al. 2012

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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For the purpose of constructing a naturalistic emotional speech database, a novel paradigm of collecting naturalistic emotional speech during a spontaneous Japanese dialog was proposed. The proposed paradigm was assessed by investigating whether the collected speech contains and conveys rich emotions psychologically and acoustically. To encourage speakers to experience and express their natural and vivid emotions, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) was adopted as a task for speakers. They were asked to play the MMORPG together while discussing strategies to achieve their tasks through a voice chat system. The recording was performed for one hour per speaker. The total recording time was approximately 14 hours. The results of emotional labeling for the collected speech supported the validity of the paradigm showing higher interlabeler agreement than the chance levels. In addition, it was revealed that the paradigm is superior in the quantity of emotional speech to other paradigm by showing a significantly higher rate of labeling instances for our speech material (73%, 2 ð2Þ ¼ 27659:87, p < 0:001) than other speech materials. Finally, an acoustical analysis supported the validity of the paradigm, showing a significant difference between the nonemotional utterances and the emotional utterances (p < 0:05).

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“…One of our primary research goals is to understand gaming experience, which has been connected to positive emotions (Clark, Lawrence, Astley-Jones, & Gray, 2009;Fernandez, 2008;Frohlich & Murphy, 1999;Hazlett, 2006;Mandryk & Atkins, 2007), but also to more complex experiential constructs like, for example, immersion (Calleja, 2007;Ermi & Mäyrä, 2005;Jennett, et al, 2008), flow (Cowley, Charles, Black, & Hickey, 2008;Csíkszentmihályi, 1990;Gackenbach, 2008;Sweetser & Wyeth, 2005) or presence (Lombard & Ditton, 1997;Slater, 2002;Zahorik & Jenison, 1998). Thus, we will provide an overview of the current understanding of immersion, flow and presence in games and then provide suggestions as to how this could be measured using objective and subjective approaches.…”

Section: From Emotions To Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Player-Game Interaction Through Affective Sound

Nacke

Grimshaw

Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction

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This chapter treats computer game playing as an affective activity, largely guided by the audio-visual aesthetics of game content (of which, here, we concentrate on the role of sound) and the pleasure of gameplay. To understand the aesthetic impact of game sound on player experience, definitions of emotions are briefly discussed and framed in the game context. This leads to an introduction of empirical methods for assessing physiological and psychological effects of play, such as the affective impact of sonic player-game interaction. The psychological methodology presented is largely based on subjective interpretation of experience, while psychophysiological methodology is based on measurable bodily changes, such as context-dependent, physiological experience. As a means to illustrate both the potential and the difficulties inherent in such methodology we discuss the results of some experiments that investigate game sound and music effects and, finally, we close with a discussion of possible research directions based on a speculative assessment of the future of player-game interaction through affective sound.

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Measuring emotional valence during interactive experiences

Cited by 113 publications

References 17 publications

Influencing Experience: The Effects of Reading Game Reviews on Player Experience

Influencing Experience: The Effects of Reading Game Reviews on Player Experience

Naturalistic emotional speech collection paradigm with online game and its psychological and acoustical assessment

Player-Game Interaction Through Affective Sound

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