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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 [...]

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 Scholar, BioMed [...]