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Shoot To Thrill – Biofeedback in Games and Player Experience

Lennart — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:55:54 +0000

I was unprepared when opening the latest edition of favorite industry magazine Game Developer, when a blink on the cover should have already told me what was revealed on page 21 in this October 2008 issue. As my eyes went into saccadic overload, I could feel my lacrimal glands kicking in leading to an overlubrication [...]

Sound and Immersion in the First-Person Shooter at Audio Mostly 2008

Lennart — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:16:16 +0000

Our paper “Sound and Immersion in the First-Person Shooter: Objectively Measuring the Player’s Sonic Experience” got accepted at the Audio Mostly 2008 conference a while ago and thanks to Inger’s blog I discovered that their conference program is now online as well. It is the first paper in the first session! That really is kind [...]

Next DiGRA 2009 conference in the UK

Lennart — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:51:13 +0000

Word got out that the next DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) conference 2009 will take place in the UK, hosted by Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom. It is themed “Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory” and the first Call for Papers goes as follows: The South of Britain Consortium are pleased [...]

Internationalisation Travelogue

Lennart — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:12:11 +0000

The summer is hot - not only in terms of weather or the wonderful German soccer team, but also considering the amount of lectures I will be giving during my stay here in Germany, mostly at the IJK in Hannover. My stay was kicked off two weeks ago, when I met competent German addiction researcher [...]

GameCareerGuide publishes theses from my students

Lennart — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:24:49 +0000

Two students I supervised last year have finished their theses this year. We decided to hand their work in for publishing in the GameCareerGuide this month and they did publish both works. Both theses were conducted as part of the EU-financed research project FUGA and both achieved outstanding grades at their respective defenses. The publications [...]