http://www.acagamic.com usable game science Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:53:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/now-also-blogging-at-physiological-computing/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/now-also-blogging-at-physiological-computing/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:00:39 +0000 Lennart Nacke http://www.acagamic.com/?p=757 I recently organized a CHI workshop on Brain and Body Interfaces together with Kiel and Steve from PhysiologicalComputing.net. We have been talking about common interests for a while now and it was great to organize this workshop together as it is the second one on this topic at CHI that I was involved in. Since [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/now-also-blogging-at-physiological-computing/feed/ 0 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/epilogue-to-my-open-letter/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/epilogue-to-my-open-letter/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:50:28 +0000 Lennart Nacke http://www.acagamic.com/?p=744 In this place used to be a blog post I wrote because copyrighted images from my PhD research had been misrepresented in a webinar from a lady in the US and I wanted to clarify the real story behind my pictures and my research. This was done successfully. The lady has removed these pictures from [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/epilogue-to-my-open-letter/feed/ 0 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/canada-ftw/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/canada-ftw/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 16:07:24 +0000 Lennart Nacke http://www.acagamic.com/?p=487 Since I recently moved to Canada to work in an awesome HCI research lab, I seem to spend more time on life and work, outside the web and blogosphere that is. My recent affection for Twitter due to its short and timely messages has also contributed to me moving away from blogging more. Nevertheless, I [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/canada-ftw/feed/ 0 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/this-space-is-intentionally-left-blank/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/this-space-is-intentionally-left-blank/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:25:41 +0000 Lennart Nacke http://www.acagamic.com/?p=450 While I managed to get some momentum with this blog in December, my time has been sparse at the start of the year (especially January). Much has happened. I have successfully defended one of the first Ph.D. degrees in Digital Game Development (read about it and download my thesis from here) in Sweden. Leading up [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/this-space-is-intentionally-left-blank/feed/ 0 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/some-interesting-calls-for-papers-and-my-dissertation/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/some-interesting-calls-for-papers-and-my-dissertation/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:42:38 +0000 Lennart Nacke http://www.acagamic.com/?p=329 Recently, I have been busy getting my dissertation out of the door. It is done now and in printing as the packshot on the right shows. More about the topic of my dissertation will be posted here later. In recent time, I have come across a few calls for papers, which I thought would be [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/some-interesting-calls-for-papers-and-my-dissertation/feed/ 1 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/silver-gamers-enjoy-playing-brain-training-games-more-than-adolescents/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/silver-gamers-enjoy-playing-brain-training-games-more-than-adolescents/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:49:42 +0000 Lennart Nacke http://www.acagamic.com/?p=316 CyberPsychology & Behavior.]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/silver-gamers-enjoy-playing-brain-training-games-more-than-adolescents/feed/ 1 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/project-natal-and-the-future-of-gaming/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/project-natal-and-the-future-of-gaming/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:51:11 +0000 The Acagamic http://www.acagamic.com/?p=276 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 [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/project-natal-and-the-future-of-gaming/feed/ 2 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/worldwide-game-research-clusters-map/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/worldwide-game-research-clusters-map/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:07:49 +0000 The Acagamic http://www.acagamic.com/?p=250 After a recent discussion about centers of game research around the world and the responses it generated on the DiGRA mailing list, I have created a Google Map that shows the institutions doing game research around the world. Interestingly, most of them are in the United States and Europe. Of course the results may be [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/worldwide-game-research-clusters-map/feed/ 2 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/top-5-mailing-lists-every-game-researcher-should-know/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/top-5-mailing-lists-every-game-researcher-should-know/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:28:02 +0000 The Acagamic http://www.acagamic.com/?p=188 Photo by chefranden (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License) What Are Mailing Lists Good For? Why should you care about Mailing lists? Have you ever missed a conference deadline or wondered what could be interesting areas of research related to gaming? Heck, maybe you have just started studying in higher education and wondered whether all [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/top-5-mailing-lists-every-game-researcher-should-know/feed/ 3 http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/survey-digital-games-advertising/ http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/survey-digital-games-advertising/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:05:16 +0000 The Acagamic http://www.acagamic.com/?p=147 My colleague Karolien from the Game Experience Lab in Eindhoven has drawn some attention to a survey from them about your thoughts, opinions and feelings about advertising in general, and about digital games & advertising more specifically. They are investigating how people feel about advertising & digital games. Should that strike a chord with you, [...]]]> http://www.acagamic.com/broadcast/survey-digital-games-advertising/feed/ 0