Evaluating and Customizing User Interaction in an Adaptive Game Controller

Torok, Leonardo; Pelegrino, Mateus; Lessa, Jefferson; Trevisan, Daniela; Vasconcelos, Cristina Nader; Clua, Esteban; Montenegro, Anselmo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20889-3_30

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“…Recently, Torok et al [26,27] and Pelegrino [22] proposed a novel adaptive controller for digital games called Smart controller 1 . Smart controller is a mobile app available for Android and iOS that allows the player to use a mobile phone as a touch-based gamepad for PC games.…”

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“…To partially counter this issue, it dynamically changes the size and position of its buttons according to the user behavior, optimizing its ergonomics on-the-fly to improve the experience. Preliminary evaluation of that controller [26] demonstrated that players had better performance results with the intelligent adaptations turned on. Subsequent tests [22] showed that it provided a significantly different user experience to gamers than what a regular gamepad could offer.…”

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“…We propose a method to evaluate the game in an exploratory user experience and usability study that investigated a commercial joystick as input device compared to a novel adaptive touch-based controller (the Smart controller [22,26,27]). Our goal is to advance the theoretical understanding of how game controllers can affect the user experience, focusing on the measurement of user experience, usability, and physiology.…”

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Understanding User Experience with Game Controllers: A Case Study with an Adaptive Smart Controller and a Traditional Gamepad

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Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2017

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Evaluating digital games is challenging since success is defined by enjoyment and gameplay experience, two factors that are hard to measure. While several works presented methods to analyze these factors, it is rare to find studies that evaluate the impact that the input methods (gamepads, touch, keyboards) have on the experience. We now introduce an exploratory user experience and usability study that compares two radically different game controllers: a mobile touch-based controller and a traditional gamepad, using subjective and objective user data. Results of this exploratory study indicate that while the general user experience and usability were similar with both controllers, the physiological measures indicate that the emotions differ between interfaces. In our final thoughts, we provide insights about how to evaluate and compare the experience with game controllers.

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Understanding User Experience with Game Controllers: A Case Study with an Adaptive Smart Controller and a Traditional Gamepad

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Torok³

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Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2017

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Designing Game Controllers in a Mobile Device

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Trevisan³

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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User Behavior Mining

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Studying the behavior of users in software systems has become an essential task for software vendors who want to mitigate usability problems and identify automation potentials, or for researchers who want to test behavioral theories. One approach to studying user behavior in a data-driven way is through the analysis of so-called user interaction (UI) logs, which record the low-level activities that a user performs while executing a task. In the paper, the authors refer to the analysis of UI logs as User Behavior Mining (UBM) and position it as a research topic. UBM is conceptualized by means of a four-component framework that elaborates how UBM data can be captured, which technologies can be applied to analyze it, which objectives UBM can accomplish, and how theories can guide the analytical process. The applicability of the framework is demonstrated by three exemplary applications from an ongoing research project with a partner company. Finally, the paper discusses practical challenges to UBM and derives an agenda for potential future research directions.

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Evaluating and Customizing User Interaction in an Adaptive Game Controller

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References 11 publications

Understanding User Experience with Game Controllers: A Case Study with an Adaptive Smart Controller and a Traditional Gamepad

Understanding User Experience with Game Controllers: A Case Study with an Adaptive Smart Controller and a Traditional Gamepad

Designing Game Controllers in a Mobile Device

User Behavior Mining

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