Adapting games to human mental resources

Program Code: 1885

Objectives: 

Engaging in a game can be mentally demanding. It is difficult to estimate the long-term impact of mental load of the gaming experience. This project will develop artificial intelligence models to extract cues of cognitive load and use these cues to adjust and adapt a game to maintain and sustain a healthy gaming experience. Cognitive load is defined here as the rate of depletion of mental resources as a player engages and plays a game.

Expected Background Knowledge:

• Good programming skills
• Good knowledge of signal and speech processing
• Ability to learn or good understanding of cognitive psychology

Description of work:

• A literature review of models for cognitive load
• A literature review of cognitive load in games
• Creating an artificial intelligence model to measure indicators for mental resources
• Creating an artificial intelligence model to integrate the information on mental resources with a gaming environment
• Testing the system.

Contact:

Prof Hussein Abbass h.abbass@adfa.edu.au