AI-Cafe presents: AI and Player Experience

This talk discusses how game design can shape an engaging, emotion-laden experience for the players. How games influence players' emotions and affective states can be captured in many different ways. However, identifying which aspects of games impact players' emotional responses is challenging.

This talk elaborates on how artificial intelligence can be used to model, predict, and explain the impact of different facets of games on players' emotions, highlighting recent research on affect modelling based on gameplay footage undertaken at the Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta.