A continuous and objective evaluation of emotional experience with interactive play environments Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:852736, abstract = {Researchers are using emerging technologies to develop novel play environments, while established computer and console game markets continue to grow rapidly. Even so, evaluating the success of interactive play environments is still an open research challenge. Both subjective and objective techniques fall short due to limited evaluative bandwidth; there remains no corollary in play environments to task performance with productivity systems. This paper presents a method of modeling user emotional state, based on a user's physiology, for users interacting with play technologies. Modeled emotions are powerful because they capture usability and playability through metrics relevant to ludic experience; account for user emotion; are quantitative and objective; and are represented continuously over a session. Furthermore, our modeled emotions show the same trends as reported emotions for fun, boredom, and excitement; however, the modeled emotions revealed differences between three play conditions, while the differences between the subjective reports failed to reach significance.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Mandryk, Regan L. and Atkins, M. Stella and Inkpen, Kori M.}, booktitle = {CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {852736}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1124926}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124926}, doi = {10.1145/1124772.1124926}, isbn = {1-59593-372-7}, keywords = {experience}, location = {Montr\'{e}al, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada}, pages = {1027--1036}, posted-at = {2009-10-05 21:43:37}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A continuous and objective evaluation of emotional experience with interactive play environments}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124926}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:852736 L3 - citeulike-article-id:852736 N2 - Researchers are using emerging technologies to develop novel play environments, while established computer and console game markets continue to grow rapidly. Even so, evaluating the success of interactive play environments is still an open research challenge. Both subjective and objective techniques fall short due to limited evaluative bandwidth; there remains no corollary in play environments to task performance with productivity systems. This paper presents a method of modeling user emotional state, based on a user's physiology, for users interacting with play technologies. Modeled emotions are powerful because they capture usability and playability through metrics relevant to ludic experience; account for user emotion; are quantitative and objective; and are represented continuously over a session. Furthermore, our modeled emotions show the same trends as reported emotions for fun, boredom, and excitement; however, the modeled emotions revealed differences between three play conditions, while the differences between the subjective reports failed to reach significance. CY - Montr\'{e}al, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada SN - 1-59593-372-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1036 TI - A continuous and objective evaluation of emotional experience with interactive play environments PB - ACM T2 - CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems SP - 1027 KW - experience AU - Mandryk, Regan AU - Atkins, Stella AU - Inkpen, Kori PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124926 ER -