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Biometric storyboards: visualising game user research data

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Pejman Mirza-Babaei,

Lennart Nacke,

Geraldine Fitzpatrick,

Gareth White,

Graham McAllister,

Nick CollinsAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '12: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2315 - 2320

https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2223795

Published: 05 May 2012 Publication History

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Player experience is difficult to evaluate and report, especially using quantitative methodologies in addition to observations and interviews. One step towards tying quantitative physiological measures of player arousal to player experience reports are Biometric Storyboards (BioSt). They can visualise meaningful relationships between a player's physiological changes and game events. This paper evaluates the usefulness of BioSt to the game industry. We presented the Biometric Storyboards technique to six game developers and interviewed them about the advantages and disadvantages of this technique.

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ISBN:9781450310161

DOI:10.1145/2212776

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