Changes of User Experience in an Adaptive Game: A Study of an AI Manager

Many questions remain unanswered in relation to player experience, particularly with respect to adaptive video games. To explore this topic, our research seeks to investigate how a player's awareness of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience manager affects their perceptions while they play a game. In this paper, we describe a first investigation of this topic, toward identifying areas that could be interesting for further study. The results of our study hint that the awareness of an AI manager might change a player's perceived self-efficacy, depending on the player's gender.