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Game Player Modeling

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Player modeling; Preference modeling

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Game player modeling is the study of computational models to gain an abstracted description of players in games. This description helps to detect, predict, and express the behavior and feelings of players and personalizes games to their preferences.

Introduction

Game player modeling is the study of computational models to gain an abstracted description of players in games. This description helps to detect, predict, and express the behavior and feelings of players and personalizes games to their preferences. These models can be automatically created using computational and artificial intelligence techniques which are often enhanced based on the theories derived from human interaction with the games (Yannakakis et al. 2013). It offers two major benefits. First, it helps in content customization to cover broader range of players with different skill levels and adapt challenges on the fly in response to the player’s actions (Bakkes...

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Farooq, S.S., Kim, KJ. (2015). Game Player Modeling. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_14-1

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