Guest Editorial Special Issue on User Experience of AI in Games

How do players experience Artificial Intelligence (AI) in games? How do they feel about the AI, and how are the decisions made by the AI communicated to the player? Is there interaction with the AI, and if so, who takes the lead? Is this a social experience, a believable one? Is the AI creative, or at least perceived as such? And finally, is the AI making the game experience better? These are only some of the challenges facing player (or user) experience and AI.