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Finding a physiological signature of a player’s fun is a goal yet to be achieved in the field of adaptive gaming. The research presented in this paper tackles this issue by gathering physiological, behavioural and self-report data from over 200 participants who played off-the-shelf video games from the Assassin’s Creed series within a minimally invasive laboratory environment. By leveraging machine learning techniques the prediction of the player’s fun from its physiological and behavioural markers becomes a possibility. They provide clues as to which signals are the most relevant in establishing a physiological signature of the fun factor by providing an important score based on the predictive power of each signal. Identifying those markers and their impact will prove crucial in the development of adaptive video games. Adaptive games tailor their gameplay to the affective state of a player in order to deliver the optimal gaming experience. Indeed, an adaptive video game needs a continuous reading of the fun level to be able to respond to these changing fun levels in real time. While the predictive power of the presented classifier remains limited with a gain in the F1 score of 15% against random chance, it brings insight as to which physiological features might be the most informative for further analysis and discuss means by which low accuracy classification could still improve gaming experience.

The expansion’s reasons of a new divinity constitute a source of questions for the Historians in order to understand why a god can be more or less accepted by the population of a country. Sarapis is a good example of this fact. He was born in Egypt with Greek characters after the death of Alexander the Great and his cult has grown up as early as the beginning of the third century, not only beside the people of Egypt, but also beside the cities of Greece. The subject of this article is to analyze the testimonies of this expansion and to summarize the conditions which allowed it. The attitude of the Ptolemies in this context is studied as well as the question of their interventionism., Les raisons de la diffusion d’une nouvelle divinité interpellent toujours les spécialistes : pourquoi tel dieu a-t-il pu obtenir un accueil plus ou moins réceptif de la part d’une population et quelles ont été les raisons préludant à sa diffusion ? Sarapis, divinité syncrétique née en Égypte, pose les mêmes questions. Ce dieu a vu le jour juste au lendemain des conquêtes d’Alexandre le Grand dans l’antique terre des Pharaons. Il a bénéficié d’une diffusion rapide auprès de la population d’Égypte mais également auprès des cités de Grèce. Cet article propose de faire le point sur les témoignages de cette expansion et les conditions dans lesquelles celle-ci a pu s’effectuer, mais également de s’interroger sur l’attitude de la dynastie lagide, en se demandant s’il y eut interventionnisme de sa part., Lefebvre Ludovic. La diffusion du culte de Sarapis en Grèce continentale et dans les îles de l’Égée au IIIe siècle avant J.-C. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 88e année n°4, Octobre-Décembre 2008. pp. 451-467.

Philhellenism and evergetism : some aspects of the Hellenistic monarchies’ policy in the 3th century b.c. The rise of new states after the slicing up of Alexander the Great’s Empire, between 323 and 281, Lefebvre Ludovic. Les bienfaits des rois hellénistiques à l’égard des cités grecques en matière artistique au IIIe siècle avant J.-C. In: Histoire de l'art, N°55, 2004. Art, pouvoir et politique. pp. 23-32.

Gaius Popillius Laenas was an important figure of the Roman Republic of the second century bce, at a time when Rome was gradually extending its operations into the eastern Mediterranean. Keywords: biography; imperialism and conquest; political history; Roman history