Visualizing Emotional Requirements

Abstract

Emotional requirements capture the game de- signer's vision for the player's emotional experi- ence and are used to facilitate communication be- tween pre-production and production teams. How- ever, production-phase deficiencies in emotional re- quirements have been identified. In this work, we ex- tend the definition of emotional requirements to include emotion prototypes and emotion markers and present improved techniques for eliciting, capturing and visu- alizing emotional requirements. A detailed investiga- tion of one gameplay scenario is presented, with a focus on evaluating visualization techniques for emotional re- quirements. The solutions developed in this work met the needs of all development team members and appear to be general solutions for the domain. Keywords: Requirements visualization, non- functional requirements, emotion, emotional require- ments, video game.