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dc.contributor.authorMavromoustakos-Blom, Paris-
dc.contributor.authorMelhart, David-
dc.contributor.authorLiapis, Antonios-
dc.contributor.authorYannakakis, Georgios N.-
dc.contributor.authorBakkes, Sander-
dc.contributor.authorSpronck, Pieter-
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-29T12:31:59Z-
dc.date.available2024-04-29T12:31:59Z-
dc.date.issued2023-
dc.identifier.citationMavromoustakos-Blom, P., Melhart, D., Liapis, A., Yannakakis, G. N., Bakkes, S., & Spronck, P. (2023). Multiplayer tension in the wild : a Hearthstone case. 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. Lisbon, Portugal.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/121542-
dc.description.abstractGames are designed to elicit strong emotions during game play, especially when players are competing against each other. Artificial Intelligence applied to predict a player’s emotions has mainly been tested on single-player experiences in low-stakes settings and shortterm interactions. How do players experience and manifest affect in high-stakes competitions, and which modalities can capture this? This paper reports a first experiment in this line of research, using a competition of the video game Hearthstone where both competing players’ game play and facial expressions were recorded over the course of the entire match which could span up to 41 minutes. Using two experts’ annotations of tension using a continuous video affect annotation tool, we attempt to predict tension from the webcam footage of the players alone. Treating both the input and the tension output in a relative fashion, our best models reach 66.3% average accuracy (up to 79.2% at the best fold) in the challenging leaveone-participant out cross-validation task. This initial experiment shows a way forward for affect annotation in games “in the wild” in high-stakes, real-world competitive settings.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machineryen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_GB
dc.subjectGames -- Designen_GB
dc.subjectVideo gamesen_GB
dc.subjectMobile gamesen_GB
dc.subjectArtificial intelligenceen_GB
dc.subjectEvolutionary computationen_GB
dc.subjectDecision makingen_GB
dc.titleMultiplayer tension in the wild : a Hearthstone caseen_GB
dc.typeconferenceObjecten_GB
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dc.bibliographicCitation.conferencename18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Gamesen_GB
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferenceplaceLisbon, Portugal, 12-14/04/2023en_GB
dc.description.reviewedpeer-revieweden_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3582437.3582440-
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