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Application of a Serious Game for Emotion Elicitation Under Socio-Economic and Trust Based Decision-Making Scenarios for Autistic Adolescents

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The relationship between decision-making and emotions has been extensively studied in both theoretical and empirical research. Game Theory-based paradigms utilizing socio-economic and trust-based contexts have been established to elicit specific emotional responses in autistic individuals. Serious games, incorporating cohesive storylines and multiple interactions within these contexts, can serve as engaging tools for emotion elicitation in autistic individuals. As autistic adolescents tend to show higher engagement with games, we aimed to investigate applicability in this population. To achieve this, we developed a mobile serious game that combines four socio-economic and trust-based game paradigms, aiming to evoke specific emotions of varying intensities during different interactions. This paper presents the outcomes of a preliminary experiment involving thirteen participants. The results show that the game’s designed interactions successfully elicited emotional responses aligning with the expectations derived from literature in non-game applications.

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  1. Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, Bethnal Green, London, E1 4NS, UK

    Fahad Ahmed & Jesus Requena Carrion

  2. University of Genoa, Via All’Opera Pia, 15, 16145, Genoa, Italy

    Fahad Ahmed, Riccardo Berta, Francesco Bellotti & Luca Lazzaroni

  3. Piccolo Cottolengo Genovese di Don Orione, Via Benvenuto Cellini 22, 16143, Genova, Italy

    Federica Floris

  4. Rehab Technologies Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego, 30, 16163, Genoa, Italy

    Giacinto Barresi

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Ahmed, F. et al. (2024). Application of a Serious Game for Emotion Elicitation Under Socio-Economic and Trust Based Decision-Making Scenarios for Autistic Adolescents. In: Dondio, P., et al. Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49065-1_17

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