Arousal Measurement Reflected in the Pupil Diameter for a Decision-Making Performance in Serious Games
2019 (English)In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer , 2019, Vol. 11863, p. 287-298Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper sets out to investigate the potentials of using pupil diameter measure as a contactless biofeedback method. The investigation was performed on how the interdependent and competing activation of the autonomic nervous system is reflected in the pupil diameter and how it affects the performance on decision-making task in serious games. The on-line biofeedback based on physiological measurements of arousal was integrated into the serious game set in the financial context. The pupil diameter was validated against the heart rate data measuring arousal, where the effects of such arousal were investigated. It was found that the physiological arousal was observable on both the heart and pupil data. Furthermore, the participants with lower arousal took less time to reach their decisions, and those decisions were more successful, in comparison to the participants with higher arousal. Moreover, such participants were able to get a higher total score and finish the game. This study validated the potential usage of pupil diameter as an unobtrusive measure of biofeedback, which would be beneficial for the investigation of arousal on human decision-making inside of serious games. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, 2019.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer , 2019. Vol. 11863, p. 287-298
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 03029743, E-ISSN 16113349
Keywords [en]
Arousal, Decision-making, Heart-rate variability, Physiology, Pupil diameter, Serious games, Biofeedback, Decision making, Heart, Neurophysiology, Autonomic nervous system, Contact less, Data measuring, Heart rate variability, Human decision making, Physiological measurement
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-19086DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34644-7_23ISI: 000508567100023Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85076953084ISBN: 9783030346430 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-19086DiVA, id: diva2:1383935
Conference
1st IFIP TC 14 Joint International Conference on Entertainment Computing and Serious Games, ICEC-JCSG; Arequipa; Peru; 11 November 2019 through 15 November
2020-01-092020-01-092022-05-06Bibliographically approved