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15 – Epic Win: Why Games Are The Future of Learning
She says: “Let’s make the future!” Jane McGonigal is a prolific alternate-reality-games designer and leads game research and development at the institute for the future. Occasionally, she also gives really cool presentations with stimulating ideas in them. Nobel prizes for game developers? Sure thing. And again, we are talking about using the power of games [...]
Digital Game Research, User Experience and the Brain
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 [...]
Three Cool Things You Wish You Knew Before About Bibliometrics
Biblio… WTF? Yeah, you think, here is the science guy with his words again, but actually bibliometrics is a a good set of methods to understand and study research in your field of interest. Usually, all it requires is a publication search engine, like Scirus, ISI Web of Science (you need an institutional login), Google [...]
Make your Christmas games list with Wishlistr
Sweden is associated with many things: cheap but comfortable furniture, very attractive females, the Nobel prize, Battlefield, file-sharing, cold winters, strict alcohol policies, snus, meatballs, the list is long. Two brothers from Göteborg have now created one of the hottest ajax webapps for the season: Wishlistr. It is basically a tool allowing you to create [...]
