David Melhart - Games Researcher Assistant Professor at SDU Metaverse Lab -- focusing on affective computing and games design.

Phew, just in time for IEEE COG 25, I managed to give a well-deserved facelift to my website. Check it out!
davidmelhart.com

🤝Proudly co-authored with Matthew Barthet and Georgios N. Yannakakis!

Our latest study on #LLMs evaluates their performance on continuous affect annotation in FPS gameplay.

We analyze model architecture, input modalities, and prompting strategies—uncovering key limitations and promising directions.

Read the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2502.04379

Can AI really predict how engaged you are while gaming? We put #GPT and #LLaVA to the test with 80 minutes of FPS gameplay and 2,400+ experiments!

Did they match human intuition or miss the mark? Watch our 1-min breakdown to find out! #AI #GameResearch #AffectiveComputing