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    iGGi Publications Filter by iGGi Theme Accessibility Applied Games Creative Computing Design & Development Esports Game AI Game Audio Game Data Games Business Immersive Technology Player Research Filter by iGGi Author Select iGGi Author Filter by Publication Year Select year Filter by Publication Type Select Publication Type Efficient solutions for an intriguing failure of llms: Long context window does not mean LLMs can analyze long sequences flawlessly Peyman Hosseini, Ignacio Castro, Iacopo Ghinassi, Matthew Purver 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) Peyman Hosseini View Details Formal Constraints and Creativity: Connecting Game Jams, Dogma ’95, the Demo Scene, OuBaPo, and Renga poets G Lai, I Vecchi Games and Culture, 2024 Gorm Lai View Details Playing NetHack with LLMs: Potential & Limitations as Zero-Shot Agents D Jeurissen, D Perez-Liebana, J Gow, D Cakmak, J Kwan arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00690, 2024 Dominik Jeurissen View Details Climate Club: A Group-based Game to Support Sensemaking of Climate Actions P Sandbhor, J Hook FDG '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Article No.: 32, Pages 1 - 12, 2024 Prasad Sandbhor Prasad Sandbhor View Details GeoPos: A Minimal Positional Encoding for Enhanced Fine-Grained Details in Image Synthesis Using Convolutional Neural Networks M Hosseini, P Hosseini arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.01951, 2024 Peyman Hosseini View Details An appraisal-based chain-of-emotion architecture for affective language model game agents M Croissant, M Frister, G Schofield, C McCall Plos one 19 (5), e0301033, 2024 Maximilian Croissant Madeleine Frister View Details Use of Technology in Brief Interventions L Gega, MJ Saiger Brief CBT and Science-Based Tailoring for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adolescents, and Young Adults, Springer, pp 293-309, 2024 Michael John Saiger View Details Contextual design requirements for decision-support tools involved in weaning patients from mechanical ventilation in intensive care units N Hughes, Y Jia, M Sujan, T Lawton, I Habli, J McDermid Applied Ergonomics 118, 104275, 2024 Dr Nathan Hughes View Details VDSC: Enhancing Exploration Timing with Value Discrepancy and State Counts M Captari, R Sasso, M Sabatelli arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17542, 2024 Remo Sasso View Details Applying and Visualising Complex Models in Esport Broadcast Coverage A Pedrassoli Chitayat, F Block, JA Walker, A Drachen Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2024 Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat View Details Player Expectations of Strategy Game AI D Gomme University of Essex, 2024 Dr Daniel Gomme View Details How does Juicy Game Feedback Motivate? Testing Curiosity, Competence, and Effectance D Kao, N Ballou, K Gerling, H Breitsohl, S Deterding Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-16, 2024 Dr Nick Ballou View Details Money laundering through video games, a criminals' playground D Cooke, A Marshall Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, Volume 50, 2024, 301802, ISSN 2666-2817 Dan Cooke View Details How Could They Win? An Exploration of Win Condition for Esports Narratives AP Chitayat, FO Block, JA Walker, A Drachen Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY 2024), 2024 Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat View Details " Hunt Takes Hare": Theming Games Through Game-Word Vector Translation Y Rabii, M Cook Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024 Younès Rabii View Details Making Connections: Neurodevelopmental Changes in Brain Connectivity after Adverse Experiences in Early Adolescence A Pollmann, R Sasso, K Bates, D Fuhrmann Journal of Neuroscience 44 (8), 2024 Remo Sasso View Details On the Evaluation of Procedural Level Generation Systems O Withington, M Cook, L Tokarchuk Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024 Dr Oliver Scholten View Details Delivering Bad News: VR Embodiment of Self Evaluation in Medical Communication Training T Collingwoode-Williams, M Gillies, P Nambyiah, C Fertleman, X Pan 2024 IEEE 12th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH) Dr Tara Collingwoode-Williams View Details Brain Drain Optimization (BRADO) Algorithm to Solve Multi-Objective Expert Team Formation Problem in Social Networks A Basiri, E Masehian, F Taghiyareh, P Hosseini Peyman Hosseini View Details Believability Assessment and Modelling in Video Games C Pacheco Queen Mary University of London, 2024 Dr Cristiana Pacheco View Details System and method for training a machine learning model R Spick, G Moss, T Bradley, PV Amadori US Patent App. 18/513,849, 2024 Dr Ryan Spick View Details Investigating Sensorimotor Contingencies in the Enactive Interface K Devlin, JK Gibbs Goldsmiths, University of London, 2024 Janet Gibbs View Details Reflection Across AI-based Music Composition Corey Ford, Ashley Noel-Hirst, Sara Cardinale, Jackson Loth, Pedro Sarmento, Elizabeth Wilson, Lewis Wolstanholme, Kyle Worrall, Nick Bryan-Kinns ACM Cognition & Creativity '24, 398-412, 2024 Kyle Worrall View Details Comparative evaluation in the wild: Systems for the expressive rendering of music K Worrall, Z Yin, T Collins IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2024 Kyle Worrall View Details From Passive Viewer to Active Fan: Towards the Design and Large-Scale Evaluation of Interactive Audience Experiences in Esports and Beyond Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Alistair Coates, Florian Block, Anders Drachen, James Alfred Walker, James Dean, Mark McConachie, Peter York Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2024 Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat View Details View More

  • Efficient solutions for an intriguing failure of llms: Long context window does not mean LLMs can analyze long sequences flawlessly

    < Back Efficient solutions for an intriguing failure of llms: Long context window does not mean LLMs can analyze long sequences flawlessly Link Author(s) Peyman Hosseini, Ignacio Castro, Iacopo Ghinassi, Matthew Purver Abstract More info TBA Link

  • GeoPos: A Minimal Positional Encoding for Enhanced Fine-Grained Details in Image Synthesis Using Convolutional Neural Networks

    < Back GeoPos: A Minimal Positional Encoding for Enhanced Fine-Grained Details in Image Synthesis Using Convolutional Neural Networks Link Author(s) M Hosseini, P Hosseini Abstract More info TBA Link

  • News (All) | iGGi PhD

    iGGi News 13 Jan 2025 iGGi Game Jam 2025 and Awards! iGGi successfully concluded its 11th Game Jam on Friday, and it’s been EPIC! Read More 13 Sept 2024 iGGi Con 2024 - It's A Wrap The iGGi Con 2024 successfully concluded on Thursday, 12 September. Read More 10 May 2024 iGGi Con 2024 REGISTRATION OPENS iGGi Conference news! The iGGi Con 2024 website launches and registration opens TODAY. Dates are 11+12 Sep '24. Don't miss out! Read More 22 Nov 2024 iGGi Wins "Best Game Related Research Award"!!! We're proud to announce that, for the 2nd year running, iGGi CDT wins the Game Republic Award for "Best Game Related Research"!! [click to read on] Read More 12 Jul 2024 iGGi @ Develop:Brighton 2024 iGGi Talk by Dominik Jeurissen, side events, and our as yet most successful iGGi stand at the Develop:Brighton Expo! >>> Read this article for more info Read More 12 Jan 2024 iGGi Game Jam 2024 - We Made It!! 48 hours of game-making - the iGGi Game Jam 2024 concludes cheerfully with the iGGi Game Jam Awards Read More 15 Nov 2024 iGGi at Develop:North Develop:North took place at The Spine in Liverpool on 14 November 2024. Five of our iGGi PG Researchers attended.. Read More 11 Jul 2024 iGGi Talk at Develop:Brighton - Dominik Jeurissen Dominik Jeurissen talks about "LLM Agents for QA - Potential & Limitations" Read More 3 Oct 2023 Radical Alternate Futurescoping: Solarpunk Vs Grimdark Workshop Academic Mindtrek Conference at Tampere University on the 3rd of October 2023 Read More Load More

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    Welcome to iGGi !!! We are a group of people doing research in games... Read More Follow us on social media: (if you musk) iGGi wins *Best Game Related Research* - iGGi THEMES - Game AI Game Data Design & Development Immersive Technology Esports Accessibility Creative Computing Game Audio Player Research Applied Games Check out the latest iGGi NEWS 13 January 2025 iGGi Game Jam 2025 and Awards! iGGi successfully concluded its 11th Game Jam on Friday, and it’s been EPIC! Read More iGGi GAMES iGGi COMMUNITY PG Researchers Staff Industry Partners Management Team Alumni

  • iGGi Game Jam 2025 and Awards! | iGGi PhD

    < Back iGGi Game Jam 2025 and Awards! iGGi successfully concluded its 11th Game Jam on Friday, and it’s been EPIC! A total of 9 groups worked on a variety of game types, all based on this year’s theme: idiom 🔊 /ˈɪdɪəm/ iGGi PGRs appreciated the (in comparison to previous years) extended and therefore more relaxed format of the iGGi GJ 2025; while the the event itself spread over 72 hours, an extra day on either end afforded plenty of socialising between cohorts, and there was ample time for play testing. A special thank you goes out to the four iGGi Industry Advisory Board members who donated some of their time and who could be contacted online by groups via the iGGi GJ Discord server: A HEARTFELT THANKS !!! For the iGGi GJ 2025 Awards , participants could assign matching idioms (or twists on existing idioms) to each group. The resulting idioms were then used to label jars (one per group) containing 3D-printed keyboard keys with an “iGGi 2025” engraving (to fit the tab key on a mechanical keyboard) which were given out as prizes on Friday after the presentations. What's more, as a revelation that came completely unexpectedly to the researchers, the iGGi Game Jam had a far larger-scale secret Surprise Award still up its sleeve thanks to….. ...…SONY Interactive Entertainment !!!! SONY very generously sponsored the main award – a PS5 !!! – see pictures below showing its enthusiastic reception! - BIG MASSIVE THANKS from all of us to SONY! And here’s a rundown of the groups, games, and their award title: Game: “ Catan Got Your Tongue ” A Catan mod. Game: “ Stochastic Reward Engine ” This game is trying to decompose Catan into its core elements providing the players with a fun time optimising their probability choices in a binary choice environment. All created by: Connor Watts, Peyman Hosseini, Ruizhe Yu Xia, Tom Wells Award title: “Settle for less” Game: “ The Frankenwurst ” A fun 2D adventure game choke full of idioms. Created by: Nicole Levermore, Owen Crucefix (iGGi-ext.), Tamsin Isaac Award title: “When pigs… die…” Game: “ Hammer to Fall ” Grab your hammer and hit as many nails as possible. A tiny VR game about hitting nails with a hammer. Nothing nefarious going on here. Fun for the entire family! Created by: Dominik Jeurissen, Karl Clarke, Philip Smith, Toby Best Award title: “Hammer Time!” Game: “ Hexed or Vexed ” A spooky social deduction murder mystery. Created by: Alex Flint, Océane Lissillour, Prakriti Nayak, Tania Dales Award title: “Let’s burn that bridge when we come to it” Game: “ love & CLAW ” >> A beautiful fusion of balanced gameplay with a unique theme.. >> A furry good card game. Created by: Bobby Khaleque, Daniel Cooke, Dimitris Menexopoulos, Florence Smith Nicholls, Francesca Foffano, George Long, Luiza Stepanyan, Remo Sasso, Sahar Mirhadi, Sunny Thaicharoen Award title: “A Furry in the hand is worth two in the bush.” Game: “ ⏃⏁⎎⊑⍀⋏⊬⏃ ” A music toy. Created by: Cameron Johnston, Doruk Balcı Award title: “(Key-)stroke a chord” Game: “ Pick Up ” Find a Cube in this open world, pick up and put it back! Game Win! Created by: Yiping Han (iGGi-ext.) Award title: “Rinse and repeat” Game: “ Piggioms ” Created by: Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Lauren Winter, Steph Carter Award title: “Seeing how the sausage is made” Game: “ snaaaaaa...(300x)...aaaake ” A 1 dimensional snake game controlled using a Pi Pico and 300 LED string. Created by: Ben Kirman (iGGi Supervisor) Award title: “BITE ITTTTT for snake’s sake!” Lastly, a hearty THANKS to the four PGR GJ Organisers Doruk Balcı, Karl Clarke, Lauren Winter, and Tamsin Isaac , to the Supervisor GJ Organiser Ben Kirman , and a special mention goes to the iGGi Admin Team , in particular to Helen Tilbrook who went above and beyond to make it all happen! The next iGGi Game Jam will take place in January 2026 - exact dates tba - and we can't wait!! Photo Gallery - iGGi Game Jam 2025 Awards: Photo Gallery - iGGi Game Jam 2025 Moments: Itch.io link to all submissions here Previous 13 Jan 2025 Next

  • LAST EVER iGGi Cohort – Sep 2023 Start | iGGi PhD

    < Back LAST EVER iGGi Cohort – Sep 2023 Start iGGi is proud to announce that we have now successfully recruited a total of 120 PhD researchers over its two funding runs (i.e., “IGGI 1” and “IGGI 2” which each granted funding for 5 years of new intake), resulting in a total of 10 cohorts of 12 new researchers on average per year. While this is sad news for those who were hoping to apply to the programme in future as there won’t be any further recruitment, we are excited about the high quality of work that iGGis on the programme have so far achieved and about what is still to come. Our last ever intake comprises a total of 16 new researchers who are about to start the programme officially at the beginning of this October (2023). We’ve seen teasers of their research projects during the “Year 1 Buzz” session of last week’s iGGi conference, and, diverse though they were in their topic areas, they all looked very promising. – We can’t wait to hear more of it!! If you are a new iGGi Year 1 and happen to read this: Here’s a warm welcome to you from the iGGi Community - to many years of shared work and fun! Previous 18 Sept 2023 Next

  • Writing Retreat at Ammerdown | iGGi PhD

    < Back Writing Retreat at Ammerdown 14 iGGi PGRs from QMUL, York, and Goldsmiths attended the three day writing retreat at Ammerdown near Bath at the end of March 2023. Everyone seemed to have a good time socially, but more importantly in their writing! This word cloud aptly summarise some of the feedback when PGRs were asked: “In one word please describe the Writing Retreat” Perceived primary benefits of attending included: Networking and focusing as a hive mind; Working together in a focused environment; Being away from home/university to provide time to focus; Increased motivation and less distraction because everyone was working at the same time; Bonding and understanding each other's writing journeys. Over 80% of attendees said that the networking and discussing matters with members of other CDTs was really useful. Over 80% also said getting away from their usual environment is effective in helping them think more clearly and/or (over 75%) more creatively. Previous 3 Apr 2023 Next

  • iGGi Con '22 | iGGi PhD

    < Back iGGi Con '22 Our annual conference iGGi Con '22 concluded last Wednesday. With around 150 attendees from academia, industry and organisations, the feedback received so far is overwhelmingly positive! Here are some of the highlights: 05 Sep - Internal Day In line with tradition, the first day of the 3-day conference was arranged as an internal event. After an informal start of the day with a year-group catch up and parallel staff meeting, a range of focus workshops addressed the different stages of "iGGi life" for the respective year groups (e.g., Year 1 Welcome, Thesis Writing, Knowledge Exchange, Post-PhD Career Planning, Academic Writing, etc.). A special Thank You goes out to all the supervisors who attended the iGGi Supervisor Community Session! This was followed by the iGGi Plenary Session - in-person for the first time since September 2019! The discussion centred much around the current cost of living crisis, and in summary: a lot more work still needs to be done to adequately address the situation! The evening and night were spent socialising in town (including optional subsequent partying!). 06 Sep - 1st iGGi Con Day The iGGi Con is a public conference and networking event (registration necessary) aimed at industry, organisations and academics who work in the field of digital games, as well as being an opportunity for the iGGi community to get status-updates on everybody's current research work. Posters - an informal session to discuss and talk about the current work of iGGi PG Researchers (PGRs) and some affiliated researchers who exhibited their posters in the foyer of the Ron Cooke Hub. Keynotes - the wonderful Rachel Kowert and the equally wonderful Tom Cole (who is also an iGGi Alumnus) gave their talks to a very inquisitive audience - a summary of which will become available via our YouTube channel . Talks - six talks by selected iGGi PGRs belonged to the categories "Game Psychology", "Game AI", and "Applied Game Design" - speakers were Elena Petrovskaya , Laura Helsby , Bobby Khaleque , Marko Tot , Prasad Sandbhor , Michael Saiger . Industry Panel - four representative from games industry (Rui Craveirinha, Nina Roussakoff, Tom Keane, Kish Hirani) held a panel discussion on "the perceived difference between academia-performed and industry-performed research" which saw vivid audience engagement. After a busy day, everyone chilled out over drinks. 07 Sep - 2nd iGGi Con Day The morning kicked off with four parallel tracks of workshops, namely a Roundtable on competitive gameplay integrity in Collectible Card Games (Sahar Mirhadi, Guilherme Matos De Faria, Sunny Thaicharoen) Qualitative analysis? In MY Excel? It's more likely than you think (Nathan Hughes) a Tutorial on Regret Minimization for optimal play in imperfect information games (Michael Aichmüller) Accessibility beyond access: Using an APX design approach to tackle real world accessibility issues (Callum Deery, Jozef Kulik) Lunch time coincided with the 1:2:1 Industry Meet Session in which ten fabulous individuals who work in the games industry were available for in-person chat. Participating companies included Earcom, Godolphin Games, Player Research, Safe In Our World, Sony/PlayStation, The Chinese Room, UKIE Talks - six talks by selected iGGi PGRs belonged to the categories "User Experience", "Player Decision and Agency", and "Creative AI" - speakers were Francesca Foffano , George Long , Nick Ballou , Nathan Hughes , Kyle Worrall , Amy Smith . Keynote - last but not least the audience had the pleasure to listen to energetic Sahar Asadi's talk titled "From research to production: the journey of content production automation". The conference concluded with closing remarks by general conference chairs Debbie Maxwell and James Walker. A massive Thank You! also to the PGR Organising Team comprising - Sahar Mirhadi, James Goodman, Prasad Sandbhor, Michael Saiger, Florence Smith Nicholls, Francesca Foffano - you did a fantastic job! See you again next year - this time in London! MARK THE DATE: 13+14 September 2023 Previous 12 Sept 2022 Next

  • Mini Expo @ iGGi Con 2023 | iGGi PhD

    < Back Mini Expo @ iGGi Con 2023 The iGGi Con 2023 Mini Expo ran during Conference Day 2 in the afternoon, in parallel with the main track. It offered a fabulous opportunity for Games Companies to connect with attending PhD researchers and masters students, and created a networking platform for all things game development and research. Here's a big THANK YOU to the games companies / individuals / NPOs who participated and enriched the Expo floor with their presence: Square Enix , Creative Assembly , Women In Games , Safe In Our World , King , Inhalation , Squingle Studios , Meaning Machine , Sumo ( The Chinese Room ) The feedback we so far received from both, Expo attendees and participating companies has been overwhelmingly positive: the Expo will definitely be back next year, at the iGGi Con 2024! Previous 15 Sept 2023 Next

  • iGGi Con 2024 REGISTRATION OPENS | iGGi PhD

    < Back iGGi Con 2024 REGISTRATION OPENS We're excited to announce that the website for our next iGGi Conference, the iGGi Con 2024, officially launched today, and what's more: REGISTRATION IS OPEN!! The iGGi Con 2024 will be held at York on 11+12 September 2024 Check the conference website for further details on this year's event. You can also follow the dedicated twitter/x . The iGGi Conference is the annual showcase of our 60+ PhD researchers, through posters, t alks, workshops and panels. The conference provides a space for industry and academia to come together to discuss the latest and greatest in games research. Moreover, the Industry Expo will be back. Register for the iGGi Con 2024 via this link Previous 10 May 2024 Next

  • ResCOM Retreat 2022 - Ammerdown | iGGi PhD

    < Back ResCOM Retreat 2022 - Ammerdown iGGi PGRs Carlos González Díaz, Cristina Dobre, Dan Gomme, Nuria Peña Perez, and iGGi Manager Tracy Dancer are currently attending the CDE CDT 's ResCom 22 Writing Retreat which takes place at Ammerdown Retreat in Somerset, 23 - 25 May, and the programme is filled with workshops, talks and socialising opportunities. A rather cosy time was had last night, as you can see on the images! Previous 25 May 2022 Next

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