Biofeedback-Driven Multiplayer Games: Leveraging Social Awareness and Physiological Signals for Play

This paper proposes the formalisation of social awareness as a design dimension for multiplayer biofeedback-driven games. The CHI Play community has shown a growing interest in exploring the potential of biofeedback and physiological sensing for playful experiences and player-computer interaction. Building on existing multiplayer games that integrate biofeedback for play in the literature, we demonstrate how awareness complements existing multiplayer game design dimensions (mode, setting) and further propose research and design directions to advance this area of study.