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< Back Bimanual interaction in virtually and mechanically coupled tasks Link Author(s) NP Pérez Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Dr Agnieszka Lyons Queen Mary University of London Supervisor Agnieszka Lyons is a linguist and discourse analyst specialising in digitally mediated communication and multimodal communication, particularly across geographic distance. She explores the ways in which users of digital media construct their digitally mediated personae, particularly from the perspective of performance of the embodied selves, entering intersubjective spaces through verbal and non-verbal discourse and creating the feeling of physical and social presence across geographical distance. This can include multimedia sharing, avatar design, textual representation of nonverbal content, and others. She is particularly interested in supervising students with a communication, HCI, social and behavioural sciences background on the following topics: Player experience Player in-game interaction Construction of alternative personae Performance of player identities a.lyons@qmul.ac.uk Email Mastodon https://agnieszkalyons.wordpress.com/ Other links Website https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnieszka-lyons-3831592/ LinkedIn BlueSky Github Themes Player Research - Previous Next

< Back Stefan Stoican University of Essex iGGi Alum Understanding human crowd behaviour via virtual environments: feedback loop between games & research This project uses computer game experiments to explore decision-making in a virtual evacuation simulation. Can one be “saved by the gaze”? Currently, Stefan is investigating how innate social cognition components such as gaze-cuing might inform one’s egress. Do “Us versus Them” scenarios occur? He is also testing how one’s feelings of social identification with the surrounding crowd might modulate one’s risk-taking. Does hoarding prevent herding? Lastly, the project is looking at how cultural differences might affect egress time, when one insists to save personal possessions. More broadly, Stefan’s research concentrates on two key open questions in human crowd behavioural research. Firstly, how do social groups (that the player observes or is a member of) within the simulated crowd of agents affect both individual decision-making and the emergent behaviour of the crowd? Secondly, both empirical and virtual experiments of human crowds have not fully explored the effect of agent or player interactions with underlying landscape features (e.g. layout, signage, debris, large objects and other obstacles, etc). The outcomes of the experimental studies using real human participants will subsequently be used to develop more realistic decision-making and behavioural response algorithms and hence improve the behaviour of simulated agents in follow-on computer games. Stefan’s academic background may lie in Mathematics and Psychology, but his interdisciplinary mindset has constantly pushed him towards games and Computer Science. For his final Mathematics project, he designed an Android app that gamified teaching statistics. As part of his Psychology Masters degree, he investigated the potential benefits of MOBA games such as League of Legends with regard to visual attention. Currently, his extracurricular projects aim to explore video games’ effects on coping with trauma and on one’s perception of vulnerable groups, via commemorative gaming name choices or via in-game refugee storylines, respectively. Please note: Updating of profile text in progress Email Mastodon Other links Website LinkedIn BlueSky Github Themes Game AI - Previous Next

< Back Prof. David Adger Queen Mary University of London Supervisor Inventing new languages for in-game communications; studying their effects on game play and character development. d.j.adger@qmul.ac.uk Email Mastodon Other links Website LinkedIn BlueSky Github Themes Creative Computing - Previous Next

< Back Realtime control of sequence generation with character based Long Short Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks Link Author(s) M Akten Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Dr Sarah West University of York Supervisor Sarah West is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner working to bring diverse voices into research through participatory approaches, including citizen science. Sarah is currently Director of SEI York, a Centre of the Stockholm Environment Institute, a science-to-policy research institute, whose York Centre is at the University of York in the Department of Environment and Geography. She has used citizen science approaches to address topics as diverse as air pollution, biodiversity, parenting, and exploring community responses to Covid-19. Her projects mainly take place in the UK and Kenya. Sarah has spent over a decade designing, running and evaluating citizen science projects, and together with other SEI colleagues has written reports for Defra, UK Earth Observation Framework and journal articles exploring who participates in citizen science, their motivations for participation, and how volunteers can be recruited and retained. She is particularly interested in exploring how different messaging and communication affects participation in citizen science projects. sarah.west@york.ac.uk Email Mastodon https://www.york.ac.uk/sei/staff/sarah-west/ Other links Website https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-west-59b82690/ LinkedIn BlueSky Github Themes Accessibility Design & Development Player Research - Previous Next

< Back Self-Determination Theory in HCI: Shaping a Research Agenda Link Author(s) N Ballou, S Deterding, A Tyack, ED Mekler, RA Calvo, D Peters, ... Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Dr Paulo Rauber Queen Mary University of London Supervisor I am a lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at Queen Mary University of London. Before becoming a lecturer, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Swiss AI lab working on reinforcement learning under the supervision of Jürgen Schmidhuber. I believe that intelligence should be defined as a measure of the ability of an agent to achieve goals in a wide range of environments, which makes reinforcement learning an excellent framework to study many challenges that intelligent agents are bound to face. My current research is focused on developing principled but scalable Bayesian reinforcement learning methods that address the most significant of these challenges: exploration, planning, and generalization. p.rauber@qmul.ac.uk Email Mastodon https://paulorauber.com/ Other links Website LinkedIn BlueSky https://github.com/paulorauber Github Themes Game AI - Previous Next

< Back Game Audio How might we combine data, AI, and music psychology to create engaging adaptive music and sound experiences for games? Project areas include: Using AI to generate music on-the-fly tailored to the game state << Previous Theme page Next Theme page >> iGGi >>> People <<< relevant to this Theme: Dr Adrián Barahona-Ríos iGGi Alum Creative Computing, Game Audio Read More Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns Supervisor Applied Games, Creative Computing, Game Audio, Player Research Read More Igor Dall'Avanzi iGGi Alum Player Research, Game Audio Read More Dr Mariana Lopez Supervisor Applied Games, Game Audio Read More Dr Mathieu Barthet Supervisor Game AI, Game Audio Read More Dr Tom Collins Supervisor Game AI, Game Audio, Game Data, Player Research, Esports Read More Alex Fletcher iGGi Alum Player Research, Applied Games, Game Audio Read More Dimitris Menexopoulos iGGi PG Researcher Available for post-PhD position Game Audio, Creative Computing Read More Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks Supervisor Game Audio, Player Research, Design & Development, Applied Games, Accessibility Read More Prof. Simon Colton Supervisor Game AI, Game Audio, Creative Computing, Accessibility, Player Research Read More Dr Gavin Kearney Supervisor Accessibility, Applied Games, Game AI, Game Audio Read More Prof. Damian Murphy Supervisor Creative Computing, Game Audio, Immersive Technology Read More Load More iGGi People working in this Theme iGGi >>> Publications <<< relevant to this Theme: Exploring the Design Space of Analogue-Digital Hybrid Boardgames Using a Player-Centric Approach T Farkas Goldsmiths, University of London, 2024 Dr Timea Farkas 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 Using texture maps to procedurally generate sound in virtual environments D Menexopoulos Audio Engineering Society Conference: AES 2024 International Audio for Games Conference, 2024 Dimitris Menexopoulos View Details Final Fantasy VII Remake Music Redesign for Evolved Expectations Across Console Generations K Worrall Journal of Sound and Music in Games 5 (4), 34-57, 2024 Kyle Worrall View Details NoiseBandNet: controllable time-varying neural synthesis of sound effects using filterbanks A Barahona-Rios, T Collins IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 32, 1573-1585, 2024 Dr Adrián Barahona-Ríos View Details Load More iGGi Publications for this Theme Previous Next

< Back Why game designers should study magic Link Author(s) S Kumari, S Deterding, G Kuhn Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Understanding whether lockdowns lead to increases in the heaviness of gaming using massive-scale data telemetry: An analysis of 251 billion hours of playtime Link Author(s) D Zendle, C Flick, D Hargarth, N Ballou, J Cutting, A Drachen Abstract More info TBA Link

iGGi Partners We are excited to be collaborating with a number of industry partners. IGGI works with industry in some of the following ways: Student Industry Knowledge Transfer - this can take many forms, from what looks like a traditional placement, to a short term consultancy, to an ongoing relationship between the student and their industry partner. Student Sponsorship - for some of our students, their relationship with their industry partner is reinforced by sponsorship from the company. This is an excellent demonstration of the strength of the commitment and the success of the collaborations. In Kind Contributions - IGGI industry partners can contribute by attending and/or featuring in our annual conference, offering their time to give talks and masterclasses for our students, or even taking part in our annual game jam! There are many ways for our industry partners to work with IGGI. If you are interested in becoming involved, please do contact us so we can discuss what might be suitable for you. House of Commons