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Category: Advent Calendar 2009

22 - The Future of Work

Jeff Brenman’s talk about the future of work is a very inspir­ing and great pre­sen­ta­tion (he works at a pre­sen­ta­tion con­sult­ing firm) that might come off as a lit­tle bit off topic here, but sub­stan­tially most of the chang­ing cir­cum­stances of our work­ing lives men­tioned in his talk are due to the peo­ple grow­ing up with games. I am [...]

21 - Game User Research: Making Games Better

Today, we have more of a slide col­lec­tion. But the main fea­tured pre­sen­ta­tion is the one from Graham McAllister, who is a researcher in video game usabil­ity at the University of Sussex in the UK and also runs the com­pany Vertical Slice that spe­cial­izes in User Experience (UX; human per­spec­tive, not qual­ity assur­ance) test­ing for games. Most [...]