Electroencephalographic Assessment of Player Experience

Nacke, Lennart E.; Stellmach, Sophie; Lindley, Craig A.

doi:10.1177/1046878110378140

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“…Some work [14,18,21] has been done with the theory of Flow [10,8], but this approach remains problematic because the theory is descriptive of subjective states, and not predictive of physiological states. A stronger link can be found in simpler cognitive mechanisms, which may in combination provide an index to HLC/HPC under the right measurement protocol.…”

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Psychophysiology and high-performance cognition - a brief review of the literature

Cowley

2015

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The psychophysiological method can be used to detect some simple cognitive states such as arousal, attentiveness, or mental workload. This approach can be especially interesting when cognition has some productive purpose, as in knowledge work, and tends to be related to human-computer interaction (HCI). However more interesting for applied purposes are acts of coordinated high-level cognition. High-level (or higher-order) cognition (HLC) is typically associated with decision making, problem solving, and executive control of cognition and action. Further, an intuitive approach for assessing whether someone is engaged in HLC is to measure their performance of a known task.Given this, it is reasonable to define high-performance cognition (HPC) as HLC under some performance restriction, such as real-time pressure or expert skill level. Such states are also interesting for HCI in work, and their detection represents an ambitious aim for using the psychophysiological method. We report a brief review of the literature on the topic. ABSTRACTThe psychophysiological method can be used to detect some simple cognitive states such as arousal, attentiveness, or mental workload. This approach can be especially interesting when cognition has some productive purpose, as in knowledge work, and tends to be related to human-computer interaction (HCI). However more interesting for applied purposes are acts of coordinated high-level cognition. High-level (or higher-order) cognition (HLC) is typically associated with decision making, problem solving, and executive control of cognition and action. Further, an intuitive approach for assessing whether someone is engaged in HLC is to measure their performance of a known task. Given this, it is reasonable to define high-performance cognition (HPC) as HLC under some performance restriction, such as real-time pressure or expert skill level. Such states are also interesting for HCI in work, and their detection represents an ambitious aim for using the psychophysiological method. We report a brief review of the literature on the topic.

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Psychophysiology and high-performance cognition - a brief review of the literature

Cowley

2015

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“…However, this research avenue entails an objective analysis of what motivates gamers to play and what constitutes a good gaming experience. This question has been previously investigated in the gaming community [1] and one conclusion was that video games are played either to: a) live out a fantasy, or b) to relax from the problems of everyday life; at most times a combination of both [1]. In either of these cases, a common trait is found: video games that are able to provide an engrossing experience are always emotionally evocative to some degree.…”

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“…Most studies still use the first two former methods, which offer rather vague insights into the emotional alterations that the presented stimuli elicited on each participant. More recent studies have recently started exploring the potential of psychophysiological data [1]- [4], but usually require manual sensor calibration and annotation of each reaction. This means there is a current need for a method capable of automating the classification of this psychophysiological data.…”

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

Nogueira

Torres

Rodrigues

et al. 2015

Entertainment Computing

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“…The study examines these differences in the context of a complex and in-depth cooperative gameplay task. Following prior physiological investigations of brain wave activity during play [20], we were interested in assessing the impact of player experience both via subjective measures and also via more objective biometric measures (specifically, brain activity measured through electroencephalography or EEG).…”

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Cooperative Game Play with Avatars and Agents

Clark

Watling

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The current study sought to identify the impact of whether teammates in a cooperative videogame were controlled by other humans (avatars) or by the game (agents). The impact on player experience was explored through both subjective questionnaire measures and brain wave activity measurement (electroencephalography). Play with human teammates was associated with a greater sense of relatedness, but less competence and flow than play with other computer-controlled teammates. In terms of brain activity, play with human teammates was associated with greater activity in the alpha, theta and beta power bands than play with computer-controlled teammates. Overall, the results suggest that play with human teammates involves greater cognitive activity in terms of 'mentalising' than play with computer-controlled teammates. Additionally, the associations between subjective measures of player experience and brain activity are described. Limitations of the current study are identified and key directions for future research are discussed.

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Electroencephalographic Assessment of Player Experience

Cited by 91 publications

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Psychophysiology and high-performance cognition - a brief review of the literature

Psychophysiology and high-performance cognition - a brief review of the literature

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

Cooperative Game Play with Avatars and Agents

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