Emotionally adapted games - An example of a first person shooter

Abstract

This paper discusses a specific customization technology - Psychological Customization - which enables the customization of information presented on a computer-based system in real-time and its application to manipulating emotions when playing computer games. The possibilities of customizing different elements of games to manipulate emotions are presented and a definition of emotionally adaptive games is given. A psychophysiologically adaptive game is discussed as an example of emotionally adapted games. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.