Internationalisation Travelogue

by The Acagamic

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 Ralf Thalemann, who is also help­ing out for a FUGA study helmed by Christoph (Klimmt) and the Hannover team. Christoph him­self has been active in pro­mot­ing FUGA to the German press. Also, after my Quo Vadis pre­sen­ta­tion and the German press echo, I would like to think the pub­lic is slowly aware that game research is actively push­ing for­ward as an aca­d­e­mic discipline.

The recep­tion at Berlin’s Games Academy was also really good and I gave a few lec­tures. Besides hav­ing a nice test audi­ence for my sem­i­nar work­shop on game design and expe­ri­ence research there, it was a good oppor­tu­nity to take a sneak peak at the stu­dent game projects, most of which were impres­sive. Next stop was the NGRN sem­i­nar with fel­low PhD stu­dents from around Scandinavia, which was almost live-blogged by Mia, so go to her blog to check out the details.

This week I am back in Hannover, where I got the news that I will also be pre­sent­ing at the International con­fer­ence on fun and games 2008 in Eindhoven later this year. I am tak­ing this week to dig even deeper into sta­tis­tics and talk to the experts here at HTMH IJK to get some tips. Next week, I will be hit­ting the CVSE research group at the University of Magdeburg, where I give a talk on Evaluating Game Usability — How game research will change the face of soft­ware appli­ca­tions. Later that week, I will be going to TU Ilmenau and talk about “Game Experience Research — How to gather valu­able infor­ma­tion from play­ers”, where it will be excit­ing to meet new faces and stu­dents inter­ested in game research.

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