Probabilisticassessmentofuser’semotionsineducationalgames.pdfVIP

1 To Appear in the Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence Probabilistic Assessment of User’s Emotions in Educational Games Cristina Conati Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4 conati@cs.ubc.ca, +604-8224632 Abstract We present a probabilistic model to monitor a user’s emotions and engagement during the interaction with educational games. We illustrate how our probabilistic model assesses affect by integrating evidence on both possible causes of the user’s emotional arousal (i.e., the state of the