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Understanding player threat responses in FPS games

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IE '13: Proceedings of The 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Matters of Life and Death

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This paper describes the results of a study designed to understand the components contributing to a participant's assessment of threatening situations in a competitive First Person Shooter (FPS) game Quake III: Arena. The analysis process described compares theoretical, questionnaire based data with that of actual game play footage and identifies how skill and experience can affect a player's ability to accurately assess threat. This research also identifies relationships between variables contributing to a participant's threat assessment process which are not usually acknowledged in game AI design. A suggestion for integrating player-like threat based decision making processes is proposed.

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Peacocke MTeather RCarette JMacKenzie IMcArthur V(2018)An empirical comparison of first-person shooter information displays: HUDs, diegetic displays, and spatial representationsEntertainment Computing10.1016/j.entcom.2018.01.00326(41-58)Online publication date: May-2018
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Johanson CMandryk RKaye JDruin ALampe CMorris DHourcade J(2016)Scaffolding Player Location Awareness through Audio Cues in First-Person ShootersProceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2858036.2858172(3450-3461)Online publication date: 7-May-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858172
Peacocke MTeather RCarette JMacKenzie I(2015)Evaluating the effectiveness of HUDs and diegetic ammo displays in first-person shooter games2015 IEEE Games Entertainment Media Conference (GEM)10.1109/GEM.2015.7377211(1-8)Online publication date: Oct-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/GEM.2015.7377211

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