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Scientists at the University of Southern Denmark are working towards developing active electronic games that can alter themselves to hold players interest.
London, Sept 25 : Scientists at the University of Southern Denmark are working towards developing active electronic games that can alter themselves to hold players' interest.
To find out what made a game a real fun, 56 children aged between eight and 10 were aked to play Bug Smasher, a game in which they "squashed" lights that appeared on pressure-sensitive floor tiles.
In different versions of the game, the bugs appeared at various rates and made different sounds.
Finally, the children were asked which versions they preferred, and the researchers combined their answers with measurements of their heart rate and how actively they played the game to create a program that predicted the fun derived by playing that game.
The researchers are now planning games that monitor interest in real time and vary if the player gets bored, reports the New Scientist magazine.
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