The Acagamic

Eye tracking has – for quite a while – attracted game researchers to use this exciting technology to interact with new media, especially games, since from a viewpoint of game accessibility, it opens gaming up to people with severe motor disabilities. At the COGAIN conference in May, we have presented a paper with results from our 2007 study. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft’s press conference on this year’s E3 is just over and they have, of course, positioned their box as an allround entertainment platform, incorporating possible competitive online media (like social media platforms Twitter and Facebook) and offline passive entertainment (music from last.fm, movies from netflix). But, the largest announcement was probably the long-awaited full body motion sensor, nicknamed “Project Natal” (or controllerless game interaction). Read the rest of this entry »

Panelists: Mike, Tad, Regan, Alessandro, Lennart. Read about day one.

Having survived day one of GDC Canada, filled with meeting great people and listening to excellent talks, the next day would even top my experience. First, of course, I went to see the keynote by Bioware founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk about their quest to fully engage a player emotionally in the interactive narratives they create. Again, it was a very friendly atmosphere, almost like you were hanging out at a friend’s place for watching game trailers and having barbecue. The presenters were excellent, however, contentwise I yearned for more than just a recap of Bartle’s player types and cool clips of their milestone games, but was left unserved. Then, there was also this trailer, which was different and disturbing: Read the rest of this entry »

Photo by Lennart (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License)

Just came back from joint conferences GDC Canada and Future Play, a combination of events that I would like to call the perfect game-industry-academia cocktail mixed by some very talented Canadians. I had the pleasure to speak at both events about the subject I am passionate about: Psychophysiological Player Testing and Metrical Game Research.
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