Towards tailoring player experience in physical Wii games

Introduction to special issue: Experiencing games: Games, play and players

“…With the emergence of movement-based controllers such as Nintendo Wii bodily involvement with games has become a prime focus of attention in game research (Simon 2009) as well as in human-computer interaction (Jarnfelt et al 2009). Jonas Linderoth (2010) looks at computer games from the perspective of ecological psychology (see Gibson 1986Gibson [1979) and argues that all computer games involve perception-action cycles where physical action possibilities and perception are tightly coupled.…”

Towards procedural level generation for rehabilitation

“…With the popularization of physical interactive game platforms considerable research has been conducted for capturing player immersion [11], engagement [2] and player affective states [7,16] in physical interactive games. On the other hand, very few studies investigate the design of adaptive mechanisms for maximizing player experience in such augmented-reality game platforms [16].…”