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My Drama: Story-Based Game for Understanding Emotions in Context

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Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016 2016)

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This paper presents My Drama, a story-based game application that helps to understand emotions in context. The game was developed for young people with autism, who usually have trouble understanding the non-verbal expression of emotions. We combined elements of drama therapy and mobile game design to let players experience taking perspectives by assuming the role of the cartoon character and practice context-dependent recognition of expressed emotions in the story, and collecting of related to the story emotional expression photographs n in a known environment. The outcomes of a pilot test indicate that My Drama is a promising and engaging training tool for emotion understanding while collecting of emotional expression photographs increased the communication. Long-term research on its effectiveness is needed.

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Xiaoyu Shen & Emilia I. Barakova

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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ronald Poppe

  2. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Meyer

  3. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Remco Veltkamp

  4. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Mehdi Dastani

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Shen, X., Barakova, E.I. (2017). My Drama: Story-Based Game for Understanding Emotions in Context. In: Poppe, R., Meyer, JJ., Veltkamp, R., Dastani, M. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2016 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 178. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49616-0_21

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