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TY - GEN
T1 - The body language of fear
T2 - fearful nonverbal signals in survival-horror games
AU - Velloso, Eduardo
AU - Löhnert, Thomas
AU - Gellersen, Hans
PY - 2015/6/23
Y1 - 2015/6/23
N2 - In this paper, we present an exploration of players’ nonverbal body expressions when playing survival-horror games. We compared physiological signals and body expressions of 16 participants playing two games: a survival-horror game (Slender: The Eight Pages) and a custom-built baseline game with the same map and controls (Treasure Hunt). We show that the hard fun style of Survival-Horror games makes full body expressions an unsuitable modality for affect recognition, but scary game events are clearly expressed by their physiological signals.
AB - In this paper, we present an exploration of players’ nonverbal body expressions when playing survival-horror games. We compared physiological signals and body expressions of 16 participants playing two games: a survival-horror game (Slender: The Eight Pages) and a custom-built baseline game with the same map and controls (Treasure Hunt). We show that the hard fun style of Survival-Horror games makes full body expressions an unsuitable modality for affect recognition, but scary game events are clearly expressed by their physiological signals.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
BT - Proceedings of DiGRAA 2015 Conference
PB - Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA
ER -