Affective Game Computing: A Survey
Georgios N. Yannakakis David Melhart
This paper surveys the current state of the art in affective computing
principles, methods and tools as applied to games. We review this emerging
field, namely affective game computing, through the lens of the four core
phases of the affective loop: game affect elicitation, game affect sensing,
game affect detection and game affect adaptation. In addition, we provide a
taxonomy of terms, methods and approaches used across the four phases of the
affective game loop and situate the field within this taxonomy. We continue
with a comprehensive review of available affect data collection methods with
regards to gaming interfaces, sensors, annotation protocols, and available
corpora. The paper concludes with a discussion on the current limitations of
affective game computing and our vision for the most promising future research
directions in the field.