Napon Namchawat

Subverting the Grinding Economy: An Edge-Based Autonomous Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent and Humanized Behavioral Biometrics in Mobile Gaming

Modern mobile freemium games increasingly rely on coercive engagement loops and artificially inflated grinding mechanics—a socio-technical phenomenon conceptualized as digital "playbor"—to drive in-app purchases and ad monetization. To protect these revenue streams, commercial game publishers deploy sophisticated behav...