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Affective Player Experience of Fear (APEX of Fear): Enhancing User Experience of Horror through Affective Computing

IMC Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Thomas Terkildsen, Recreational Fear Lab, Aarhus University

Info about event

Time

Tuesday 22 February 2022,  at 11:00 - 12:30

Location

IMC meeting room, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, building 1483, room 312 and online (https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/my/imcevents)

Thomas Terkildsen

Abstract
What if you could step into a horror simulation that adapted to your individual fears and feelings – a virtual world of pleasurable terror tailor-made just for you? Maybe that sounds like science fiction, but this is exactly what the team behind the APEX of Fear project is currently developing. In this lecture, the Principal Investigator Thomas Terkildsen will take us through the state-of-the-art technology underlying this next generation of horror media.

About the speaker
Thomas Terkildsen, Msc.Psych, is an experienced user researcher, who has specialized in affective computing and physiological measurement of emotions. His main research interest is in the measurement of emotions, such as fear, and presence in games using psychophysiology.