Foreword -- Preface -- Part I Theory -- The Aesthetic Motives of Play -- Affect Channel Model of Evaluation in the context of digital games -- Affective Involvement in Digital Games -- PART II - Emotion Modelling and Affect-Driven Adaptation -- Multimodal sensing in affective gaming -- Emotion Modelling via Speech Content and Prosody � in Computer Games and Elsewhere -- Comparing two commercial brain computer interfaces for serious games and virtual environments -- Psychophysiology in Games -- Emotion and Attitude Modeling for Non-player Characters -- Emotion-driven Level Generation -- Emotion-Driven Narrative Generation -- Game Cinematography: from Camera Control to Player Emotions -- From Sinewaves to Physiologically-Adaptive Soundscapes: The Evolving Relationship between Sound and Emotion in Video Games -- Emotional Appraisal Engines for Games -- Part III Applications -- Emotion and Body-based Games: Overview and Opportunities -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the role of computer games in treatment of PTSD -- Understanding and Designing for Conflict Learning Through Games -- Games robots play: once more, with feeling -- Lovotics: Love and Sex with Robots -- Index.

The core message of this book is: computer games best realise affective interaction. This book brings together contributions from specialists in affective computing, game studies, game artificial intelligence, user experience research, sensor technology, multi-modal interfaces and psychology that will advance the state-of-the-art in player experience research; affect modelling, induction, and sensing; affect-driven game adaptation and game-based learning and assessment. In 3 parts the books covers Theory, Emotion Modelling and Affect-Driven Adaptation, and Applications. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the field of affective computing, and artificial intelligence. .