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Fighting Gamer Rage With an Arduino Based Biometrics Headset
An anonymous reader writes "Gamer rage is a common phenomenon among people who play online, a product of the intense frustration created by stressful in-game situations and an inability to cope. It can have significant impact on the gamer's ability to play well, and to get along with others. To combat this rage and train gamers to deal with the stress, visual designer Samuel Matson of Seattle has created the Immersion project, integrating a pulse sensor tied to a Tiny Arduino with Bluetooth into a headset to monitor the gamer's heart rate. The heart rate data is sent in real time to the gaming PC, where it is displayed in the game. Matson even created a simple FPS using the Unity game engine that varies the AI and gaming difficulty based on the user's heart rate. Using this system, the gamer is able to train themselves to recognize the stress and learn to control it, in order to make them a much more agreeable and competitive player."
If I lose this game what do I lose in life? Nothing. If I win this game what do I win in life? Nothing. Smile when you win, laugh when you lose. It's a game, for entertainment purposes only.
For safety sake, usually the last thing you want to tell an angry anyone (Not just a gamer) is that they have rage issues..
A small syringe injects a benzodiazepine into your temple.
Rage is side-effect of having no control of your emotions. Perhaps this would be more useful outside of gaming? I'm not to afraid of some 97 pound weakling stuck in their parent's basement thousands of miles away who can barely lift their controller. Little more concerned about the 300lb redneck stuck in traffic with his truck pushing my bumper.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
Maybe these poor souls should step away from the game for a while and enjoy interacting with living people.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
That would really add to the game! Especially for griefers ... 'whoah did you see that, his pulse hit 140 just before he ragequit! Psych! Now let's find someone else to spawn camp...'
In all seriousness I think you could have an elevated pulse, blood pressure or whatever and still be enjoying the game. Trying to maintain perfect calm sort of defeats the purpose.
Fight gamer rage, stay the fuck off /..
First DeLL and now InTEL. What is the PC biz coming to? Going to?
And winning by a close margin, elevating your heart-rate and giving you nice, cold adrenalin-hands is awesome.
...another small electronic device to hurl across the room and smash into little bits!
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if convicted with road rage causing damage/injury, the individual wears this monitor and when heart rate or blood pressure increases beyond a reasonable limit and sustained, then the car's RPMs are limited to force short shifts to prevent aggressive acceleration and discourage aggressive driving
Shock collar!
Using this system, the gamer is able to train themselves to recognize the stress and learn to control it, in order to make them a much more agreeable and competitive player.
If it gets to the point where you need to build a device to tell you when you're getting gamerage - and if the primary reason for wanting to control your gamerage is because you want to stop it making you suck at the game - you should probably try just gaming less.
I used to get gamerage from Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, the only FPS I ever really got into. If it started angrying me up, I just turned it off for the day.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Go outside. Get some exercise.
Have gnu, will travel.
The problem is that such a heart-rate monitor can't tell the difference between rage and excitement. If it affects the game, then it has to be able to tell if I'm angry or excited, or it won't work properly.
I've never raged playing a single player game. On the other hand raging in multiplayer FPS is very common.
My worst raging experience was in a multiplayer air combat game called Air Warrior. My joystick was mounted on the desk with screws initially, but I I ripped it out in a fit of rage when I kept getting shot down by laggy headon noobs. Next I epoxied the joystick onto the desk, but that too got ripped out while raging.
Finally I drilled holes in the desk and mounted the joystick using steel wire threaded through the holes and looped around the base of the joystick. This turned out to be the most rage-resistant setup, since ripping out the joystick didn't break any hard parts.
A heart rate sensor won't tell you if someone is raging.
Fast heart rate could just as easily be indicative of excitement, and other positive emotions.
GRRRR! It's not caused by my inability to cope! It's caused by my laggy connection, n00b! GRRR!
MW3 is a joke on a PS3, I'm typically 150-250ms behind the action. Oddly enough, I just put the disc in today for the first time in months. 3 games. 3 different cheaters with a mod that makes them invisible. Methinks it will be several more months before I try the game, IW doesn't seem to care.
Or do the vogue thing now an take a gun to school and shoot the JockTroll. FUCKING WIN! Rage is vented, antagonist is removed, on to the next douche bag that assumes it's their job to piss someone off. Have a nice day!