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4.2.3 PLAYER EXPRESSION 53 4.3 PEIR
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to th
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ABSTRACT This thesis proposes a fra
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choice given until the mark “poli
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REFERENCES 1. Bozec, P. "My Everyth
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In order to be able to take acti
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persona could be narratively define
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of non lethal, silent, and clean de
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ARTICLE 5 - DEFINING PERSONAS IN GA
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software is however limited in that
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event sets, i.e. capturing metrical
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objects and entities within it. Eve
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metrics include tracking camera vie
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looting is a play-style observed in
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players can choose between differen
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according to their positioning on a
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14. Medlock, M.C., Wixon, D.; Terra
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ARTICLE 6 - PLAY-PERSONAS: BEHAVIOU
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experiences are evaluated and remem
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B) It is possible to infer user nee
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personas are hypotheses that emerge
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Expert Rookie Grunt Athlete Chess-
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The requirement for improving user-
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ecause they all stem from in-house
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Figure 3 (Top): diagram showing the
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titles where there is a trend towar
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player spent at the location and wh
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3. Börner, K., Penumarthy, S.: Soc
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34. Thompson, C.: Halo 3: How Micro
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ARTICLE 8 - ANALYZING SPATIAL USER
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on basic statistical analysis metho
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visualization or for creating overv
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egarding actions undertaken in-game
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ased methods within the games area
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2.4 The EIDOS Metrics Suite The dat
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is played in Third-Person perspecti
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one cause of death, and performing
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ArcGIS permits different layers to
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unsupervised learning in capturing
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populated middle-left cluster (Fig.
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weight values we repeat the trainin
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TABLE I THE FOUR PLAYING BEHAVIOR C
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(d) Number of Deaths, D (e) Complet
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equests for specific in-game puzzle
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13. G. N. Yannakakis and M. Maragou
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ARTICLE 10 - PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONAL
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Personality is described as recogni
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Inputs: Outputs: Primary attack (ra
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elated to player-game interaction a
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10. Kuniavsky, M.: Observing the Us
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Play-personas are here introduced a
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It is only natural that game design
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4 Defining play-personas using game
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gameplay, descriptiveness of player
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into which sections of the levels t
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Runners: This group completes the g
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17. Iser, W.: The Implied Reader. J
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