Our very own Pejman Mirza-Babei is to lend his infinite expertise to the Games Research Seminar next week when he presents his paper at the conference, which is to be held in Tampere, Finland on 8-9 April.

Pejman has been working with Graham McAllister on “Using physiological measures in conjunction with other usability approaches for better understanding of the player’s gameplay experiences” which tracks the biometric responses between players of the games Haze and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Here is the abstract of the paper/talk: “In this study we capture player’s physiological measures during a gameplay session, to indicate micro-events that have caused changes in their body signals. At the post-gameplay interviews we ask participants to comment and describe their feelings on the selected events. The aim of this study is not to over-interpret physiological measures, but on using blips in measures to help identify key points in a game, which we then use to investigate further with the participant.This approach provides a method that can identify not only the negative user experience and usability issues but also the events which have a positive impact on player’s experience.”

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