The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across a wide range of domains comes with both
high expectations of its benefits and dire predictions of misuse. While AI systems have …

The esports market has been growing exponentially has been growing exponentially with
much interest from industry and academia. Perhaps because of this growth, there is a lack of …

Explainability (XAI) has matured in recent years to provide more human-centered
explanations of AI-based decision systems. While static explanations remain predominant …

Purpose The goal of this study is to examine the factors (eg enjoyment, skills, challenge,
telepresence and flow) that influence players' purchase intention toward Dota 2 virtual in …

Video game analytics are widely adopted within academia and industrial development–yet,
the player's perspective is rarely considered as a driving factor, even though vast …

With the rise of competitive online gaming and esports, players' ability to review, reflect
upon, and improve their in-game performance has become important. Post-play …

Identifying explainable player strategies and decision patterns that give insights into player
behavior is one of the most difficult tasks for game analytics, yet yields great informative …

Data is becoming an important central point for making design decisions for most software.
Game development is not an exception. As data-driven methods and systems start to …

Educational technology is shifting toward facilitating personalized learning. Such
personalization, however, requires a detailed understanding of students' problem-solving …

Blockchain games introduce unique gameplay and incentive mechanisms by allowing
players to be rewarded with in-game assets or tokens through financial activities. However …