KU Leuven
Dept. of Computer Science
Questionnaires are vital in games user research (GUR) to assess player experience (PX). However, having too many questions in surveys prevents wider uptake among GUR professionals because of games' rapid production cycles. To address... more
In this paper, we present PXI Bench, an online tool to provide actionable insight into the player experience, designed by and for games user researchers. Based on the Player Experience Inventory (PXI), it provides detailed information... more
Short questionnaires, using only a few items for measuring user experience related constructs, have been used in a variety of domains. In the field of games, the miniPXI is such a validated short version of the player experience inventory... more
The input of free-form text is frequently utilized in surveys for gamerelated research. While this provides flexibility, it also presents the challenge of dirty data, which includes spelling errors, missing series titles, and unofficial... more
Utilizing a validated scale to assess player experience (PX) in video games can yield important findings. Nevertheless, insufficient quantitative data analysis expertise among games user research (GUR) self-taught practitioners, poses... more
Utilizing a validated scale to assess player experience (PX) in video games can yield important findings. Nevertheless, insufficient quantitative data analysis expertise among games user research (GUR) self-taught practitioners, poses... more
This paper is concerned with addressing how plant tissue mechanics is related to the micromechanics of cells. To this end, we propose a mesh-free particle method to simulate the mechanics of both individual plant cells (parenchyma) and... more
We discuss the numerical computation of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits in delay differential equations. Such connecting orbits are approximated using projection boundary conditions, which involve the stable and unstable manifolds of a... more
An important class of problems exhibits macroscopically smooth behaviour in space and time, while only a microscopic evolution law is known, which describes effects on fine space and time scales. A simulation of the full microscopic... more
In traditional physicochemical modeling, one derives evolution equations at the (macroscopic, coarse) scale of interest; these are used to perform a variety of tasks (simulation, bifurcation analysis, optimization) using an arsenal of... more