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Introducing EVG: An Emotion Evoking Game

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2006)

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A dungeon role playing game intended to induce emotions such as boredom, surprise, joy, anger and disappointment is introduced. From the preliminary study, facial expressions indicating boredom and anger were observed. Individual differences were found on appraisal and facial expression of surprise, joy and disappointment.

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  1. Information Science Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA, 90066, USA

    Ning Wang & Stacy Marsella

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  1. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 13274 Fiji Way, 90292, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

    Jonathan Gratch

  2. Music Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW, London, UK

    Michael Young

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  4. BT plc, Adastral Park, IP5 3RE, Ipswich, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  5. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

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Wang, N., Marsella, S. (2006). Introducing EVG: An Emotion Evoking Game. In: Gratch, J., Young, M., Aylett, R., Ballin, D., Olivier, P. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11821830_23

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