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< Back The prevalence of loot boxes in mobile and desktop games Link Author(s) D Zendle, R Meyer, P Cairns, S Waters, N Ballou Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Reforms to improve reproducibility and quality must be coordinated across the research ecosystem: the view from the UKRN Local Network Leads Link Author(s) SLK Stewart, CR Pennington, GR da Silva, N Ballou, J Butler, Z Dienes, ... Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Applied Games How might we design and use games to support health, learning, work, and conduct scientific research? Project areas include: Games for therapy and diagnosis, particularly in mental health Analysis of game behaviours for research into human psychology Games for understanding the impact of behaviours on the environment << Previous Theme page Next Theme page >> iGGi >>> People <<< relevant to this Theme: Michael Aichmüller iGGi Alum Game AI, Applied Games Read More Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks Supervisor Game Audio, Player Research, Design & Development, Applied Games, Accessibility Read More Steph Carter iGGi PG Researcher Available for placement Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research, Accessibility, Game Data Read More Prof. Peter Cowling Supervisor Game AI, Applied Games, Design & Development Read More Prof. David Beer Supervisor Player Research, Applied Games, Creative Computing, Game Data, Game AI Read More Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns Supervisor Applied Games, Creative Computing, Game Audio, Player Research Read More Dr Ignacio Castro Supervisor Game AI, Applied Games, Player Research, Game Data Read More Dr Joe Cutting iGGi Alum + Supervisor Player Research, Applied Games, Design & Development Read More Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir iGGi PG Researcher Available for placement Applied Games, Design & Development, Creative Computing Read More Prof. Paul Cairns Supervisor Applied Games, Player Research, Accessibility, Game Data Read More Dr Tara Collingwoode-Williams iGGi Alum Player Research, Applied Games Read More Rory Davidson iGGi PG Researcher Available for placement Player Research, Applied Games, Design & Development Read More Load More iGGi People working in this Theme iGGi >>> Publications <<< relevant to this Theme: Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe N. Binyamini Ben-Meir, P.G.T. Healey, S. Deterding Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25), 05-09 July 2025, Funchal, Portugal. ACM, New York, NY, USA 19 Pages Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir View Details Towards an Ontology of Wargame Design L Ouriques, CE Barbosa, J Kritz, G Xexéo IEEE Access, vol. 13 Joshua Kritz View Details When 1+ 1 does not equal 2: Synergy in games Joshua Kritz, Raluca Gaina arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10304 Joshua Kritz View Details "Leave our kids alone!": Exploring Concerns Reported by Parents in 1-star Reviews L Winter, L Helsby, D Zendle CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article No.: 1036, Pages 1 - 16 Lauren Winter Laura Helsby 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 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 Dr Maximilian Croissant Dr Madeleine Frister View Details Load More iGGi Publications for this Theme Previous Next

< Back Metrics of games-with-a-purpose for NLP applications Link Author(s) J Chamberlain, R Bartle, U Kruschwitz, C Madge, M Poesio Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Game AI How might we use novel AI techniques including machine learning and decision search to create more effective and engaging game agents and understand human behaviour in games? Project areas include: AI agents that play games using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Statistical forward planning AI agents as non-player characters General Video Game AI - AI that can be transferred between video games AI agents for game balancing and Quality Assurance testing << Previous Theme page Next Theme page >> iGGi >>> People <<< relevant to this Theme: Michael Aichmüller iGGi Alum Game AI, Applied Games Read More Dr Martin Balla iGGi Alum Available for post-PhD position Game AI Read More Matt Bedder iGGi Alum Game AI Read More Toby Best iGGi PG Researcher Available for placement Game AI, Design & Development, Player Research Read More Dr Memo Akten iGGi Alum Game AI Read More Dr Mathieu Barthet Supervisor Game AI, Game Audio Read More Prof. David Beer Supervisor Player Research, Applied Games, Creative Computing, Game Data, Game AI Read More Dr Adrian Bors Supervisor Game AI Read More Dr Myat Aung iGGi Alum Game AI Read More Prof. Richard Bartle Supervisor Design & Development, Game AI, Player Research Read More Dr Daniel Berio iGGi Alum Game AI Read More Dr Ivan Bravi iGGi Alum Game AI, Player Research Read More Load More iGGi People working in this Theme iGGi >>> Publications <<< relevant to this Theme: World and human action models towards gameplay ideation A Kanervisto, D Bignell, LY Wen, M Grayson, R Georgescu, ... Nature 638 (8051), 656-663, 2025 Marko Tot View Details Towards an Ontology of Wargame Design L Ouriques, CE Barbosa, J Kritz, G Xexéo IEEE Access, vol. 13 Joshua Kritz View Details When 1+ 1 does not equal 2: Synergy in games Joshua Kritz, Raluca Gaina arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10304 Joshua Kritz View Details Archaeological Gameworld Affordances: A Grounded Theory of How Players Interpret Environmental Storytelling F Smith Nicholls, M Cook CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, Article no 465, p. 1 - 20 Florence Smith Nicholls View Details Seeding for Success: Skill and Stochasticity in Tabletop Games J Goodman, D Perez-Liebana, S Lucas IEEE Transactions on Games, 2025 Dr James Goodman View Details 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 Load More iGGi Publications for this Theme Previous Next

< Back Artificial intelligence in co-operative games with partial observability Link Author(s) P Williams Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back How do loot boxes make money? An analysis of a very large dataset of real Chinese CSGO loot box openings Link Author(s) D Zendle, E Petrovskaya, H Wardle Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back The Ethics of Creative AI Link Author(s) C Flick, K Worrall Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Using Generative AI as an Artistic Material: A Hacker's Guide Link Author(s) T Broad Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Rolling Horizon Co-evolution in Two-player General Video Game Playing Link Author(s) C Ringer, C Pacheco, GC Dobre, D Perez-Liebana Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Prevalence and Salience of Problematic Microtransactions in Top-Grossing Mobile and PC Games: A Content Analysis of User Reviews Link Author(s) E Petrovskaya, S Deterding, DI Zendle Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Mek: Mechanics prototyping tool for 2d tile-based turn-based deterministic games Link Author(s) R Volkovas, M Fairbank, JR Woodward, S Lucas Abstract More info TBA Link