TY - JOUR
T1 - Data-driven approaches to game player modeling
T2 - A systematic literature review
AU - Hooshyar, Danial
AU - Yousefi, Moslem
AU - Lim, Heuiseok
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. 2016R1A2B2015912). Author’s addresses: D. Hooshyar and H. Lim, Lyceum, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, the Republic of Korea; emails: danial.hooshyar@gmail.com, limhseok@korea.ac.kr; M. Yousefi, School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University, Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, the Republic of Korea; email: yousefi.moslem@gmail.com. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. © 2018 ACM 0360-0300/2018/01-ART90 $15.00 https://doi.org/10.1145/3145814
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PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - Modeling and predicting player behavior is of the utmost importance in developing games. Experience has proven that, while theory-driven approaches are able to comprehend and justify a model's choices, such models frequently fail to encompass necessary features because of a lack of insight of the model builders. In contrast, data-driven approaches rely much less on expertise, and thus offer certain potential advantages. Hence, this study conducts a systematic review of the extant research on data-driven approaches to game player modeling. To this end, we have assessed experimental studies of such approaches over a nine-year period, from 2008 to 2016; this survey yielded 46 research studies of significance.We found that these studies pertained to three main areas of focus concerning the uses of data-driven approaches in game player modeling. One research area involved the objectives of data-driven approaches in game player modeling: behavior modeling and goal recognition. Another concerned methods: classification, clustering, regression, and evolutionary algorithm. The third was comprised of the current challenges and promising research directions for data-driven approaches in game player modeling.
AB - Modeling and predicting player behavior is of the utmost importance in developing games. Experience has proven that, while theory-driven approaches are able to comprehend and justify a model's choices, such models frequently fail to encompass necessary features because of a lack of insight of the model builders. In contrast, data-driven approaches rely much less on expertise, and thus offer certain potential advantages. Hence, this study conducts a systematic review of the extant research on data-driven approaches to game player modeling. To this end, we have assessed experimental studies of such approaches over a nine-year period, from 2008 to 2016; this survey yielded 46 research studies of significance.We found that these studies pertained to three main areas of focus concerning the uses of data-driven approaches in game player modeling. One research area involved the objectives of data-driven approaches in game player modeling: behavior modeling and goal recognition. Another concerned methods: classification, clustering, regression, and evolutionary algorithm. The third was comprised of the current challenges and promising research directions for data-driven approaches in game player modeling.
KW - Computational models
KW - Data-driven approaches
KW - Game player modeling
KW - Systematic literature review (SLR)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040162683&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3145814
DO - 10.1145/3145814
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85040162683
SN - 0360-0300
VL - 50
JO - ACM Computing Surveys
JF - ACM Computing Surveys
IS - 6
M1 - 90
ER -