The Acagamic

User Experience Recently, my research was fea­tured in an arti­cle by Harry Brignull for the UX com­mu­nity, enti­tled “UX for videogame design: Gameplay Research”, where he describes suc­cinctly what some of my col­leagues and me are doing in game sci­ence, where our main focus is to under­stand play­ers from an empir­i­cal research per­spec­tive. Digital Game [...]

After hav­ing the great chance to speak in Helsinki at our recent FUGA project meet­ing about Game Design and Player Emotions, where I talked about using psy­chophys­i­o­log­i­cal mea­sure­ments to val­i­date game design ele­ments for spe­cific player emo­tions, I had the plea­sure of being invited to Germany’s Quo Vadis Entwicklerkonferenz (game devel­op­ers con­fer­ence). While last year, I could only [...]