Measuring Flow in Games Using Brain Computer Interfaces
- Aug 25, 2015
- 1 min read
According to Csikszentmihalyi -“Flow is a state of peak enjoyment, energetic focus, and creative concentration experienced by people engaged in adult play, which has become the basis of a highly creative approach to living." In this study we use passive BCI recordings to quantify flow levels across a game with three different levels of difficulties. We use power spectral density and coherence values as features to obtain a mean subject dependent accuracy of 82.46% across 8 human subjects.
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