Keynote from GameDays 2010: Serious Games for Sports and Health. Digital games provide the most engaging interactive experiences. You will be able to take away 3 methods for measuring user experience in games from this talk. First, the objective assessment of physiological user responses together with automated event-logging techniques, so called game metrics, will show how to collect player- and game-related variables for a comprehensive understanding of their interaction. Second, using psychometric questionnaires willallow a reliable assessment of players' subjective emotion and cognition during gameplay. Third, the combination of the two approaches allows cross-correlations to be made about gameplay experience with focus on human-machine interaction.

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpdIXxkWq8s

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkQbMKc58Nc

12. High
Anxiety
Challenge
Apathy Boredom
Low
Low Skills High

14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOtD5n_VDKs

22. Eye Tracking

23. ~ $120
www.emotiv.com
www.tobii.com
www.emsense.com
www.brainproducts.com
www.wilddivine.com

26. Frontal (F)
Temporal (T)
Central (C)
Parietal (P)
Occipital (O)

36. Effects of Game Design
4
Boredom Level
Immersion Level
Flow Level
3
25 Students (M = 23y)
1 × 3 IV (Level Design): 2
Boredom, Immersion, Flow
1
EMG, EDA, & GEQ
0
Immersion Tension Competence Flow Negative Positive Challenge
Affect Affect
Mean EDA [log (µS) ]
Electromyographic (EMG) Activity per Level (ln[µV]) 0.95 0.95
.93
2.15 Boredom Level 2.15 Immersion Level 2.15 Flow Level
2.10 2.10 2.10
2.05 2.05 2.05 0.90 .90 0.90
.89
2.00 2.00 2.00
1.95 1.95 1.95
0.85 0.85
EMG OO EMG CS EMG ZM EMG OO EMG CS EMG ZM EMG OO EMG CS EMG ZM
Boring Flow Immersion
Level Level Level
Level Design Condition
Nacke, L. E., & Lindley, C. A. (2009). Affective Ludology, Flow and Immersion in a First- Person Shooter:
Measurement of Player Experience. Loading 3(5), journals.sfu.ca/loading/index.php/loading/article/view/72

37. Does he
ever stop?

39. http://phd.acagamic.com

44. Dr. Lennart Nacke
University of Saskatchewan
Department of Computer Science
Lennart.Nacke@acm.org
Consult me at: http://www.acagamic.com
Visit our research group: http://hci.usask.ca