Tiltometer: Real-Time Tilt Recognition in Esports
Thorben Ortmann, Sune Maute, Franziska Heil, Kilian Hildebrandt, Pedram Berendjy Jorshery, Larissa Putzar · 2023
This paper introduces the Tiltometer, a system designed to help mitigate the effects of emotional tilt in esports, specifically in the context of the popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game League of Legends (LoL). In esports, tilt or tilting refers to a progressive deterioration in gameplay due to negative emotions and loss of self-control. Our system integrates facial and speech emotion recognition with in-game events to compute a player’s tilt level in real-time. The tilt level is visualized alongside related data as an in-game overlay. Our goal is to aid players in breaking out of tilting behavior to improve gameplay and reduce toxicity.