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A Security-Focused Architecture for Gameplay Telemetry in Serious Games

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Games and Learning Alliance (GALA 2023)

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Serious games are a promising approach for diagnostic and therapeutic as well as educational purposes. Capturing player performance and behavior along with details of gameplay directly from the game is a valuable data source for evaluating serious games and for their iterative refinement. In many serious games, the collected data can however be especially sensitive for privacy, as it may imply learning or health state progression, and thus should be strongly protected. In this paper, we specify goals for a security-enhanced game telemetry system, model a security architecture based on them, and present the design of such a system, which we implemented for evaluation of health games in our research group. The presented system is designed to be applicable for various types of serious games. It employs end-to-end encryption, signatures, and data separation to improve protection of collected data without the addition of usability burdens on players from these security measures.

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Our research project Senior Health Games is partially funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation (CZS Transfer program).

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  1. Trier University of Applied Sciences, Schneidershof, 54293, Trier, Germany

    Stefan Bodenschatz, Tilo Mentler & Christof Rezk-Salama

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  1. Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Pierpaolo Dondio

  2. Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Mariana Rocha

  3. University of Galway, Galway, Ireland

    Attracta Brennan

  4. Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Germany

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  5. CAPTRS, Austin, TX, USA

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  6. Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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  7. University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

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Bodenschatz, S., Mentler, T., Rezk-Salama, C. (2024). A Security-Focused Architecture for Gameplay Telemetry in Serious Games. In: Dondio, P., et al. Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49065-1_41

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