Review on psychophysiological methods in game research
Inger Ekman, Guillaume Chanel, Simo Järvelä, Benjamin Ultan Cowley, Mikko Salminen, Pentti Henttonen, Niklas Ravaja · 2010
This paper reviews the psychophysiological method in game research. The use of psychophysiological measurements provides an objective, continuous, real-time, non-invasive, precise, and sensitive way to assess the game experience, but for best results it requires carefully controlled experiments, large participant samples and specialized equipment. We briefly explain the theory behind the method and present the most useful measures. We review previous studies that have used psychophysiological measures in game research, and provide future directions.