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< Back Erin Robinson University of York iGGi PG Researcher Erin Robinson is a multimedia artist, experimental musician and PhD Researcher from London. Her work primarily involves the design of interactive installations, where she takes a participatory approach to evolving visual-scapes, but also takes form in fixed media, sound art, free improvisation, live visuals and immersive experiences. Her work critically engages with the concepts of posthumanism and postmodernism, exploring notions of authenticity and existence in the digital anthropocene by blurring lines between organic and non-organic entities, reality and virtuality, self and otherness. She is a founding member of SubPhonics, an experimental music and sound art collective based in London. Recent works include ‘Flora_Synthetica’, shown at Peckham Digital 2024, and ‘Pluriversal Perspectives: Moss’, shown at the South London Botanical Institute and Conference for Designing Interactive Systems (Copenhagen) 2024. A description of Erin's research: "My research adopts a practice-based approach to exploring participant-contributed materials, a technique positioned at the intersection of participatory and new media arts. This interactive technique enables participants to contribute aesthetic and semiotic materials to new media artworks through open forms of interaction, including but not limited to, text input, drawing, and video feed. Although both participatory and new media artistic practices involve audience engagement, traditional interactive media often impose restrictive computational frameworks. In contrast, participatory practices, typically conducted in person, allow participants greater freedom, resulting in deeper engagement and more diverse, unexpected outcomes that reflect the audience's perspectives and behaviours. This research underscores the potential of digital artworks to provide more expansive and identity-reflecting experiences by incorporating participant-contributed materials. By using strengths of participatory practices, digital artworks can achieve a richer and more personalised form of interaction, and meaningful engagement with audiences." Email erin.robinson@york.ac.uk Website LinkedIn Mastodon BlueSky GitHub Other Link Supervisor(s): Prof. Sebastian Deterding Themes Design & Development Immersive Technology - Previous Next

< Back Virtual Creature Morphology‐A Review Link Author(s) G Lai, FF Leymarie, W Latham, T Arita, R Suzuki Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Best Game Related Research Award Goes to iGGi Today, iGGi won the Best Game Related Research Award at the Game Republic 20th Anniversary Awards!! The ceremony was part of GaMaYo #21 (by Game Makers Yorkshire and the North ) which took place today, Thursday, 23 November 2023 at Tileyard North in Wakefield, and the award was sponsored by Red Kite Games . For further details please follow this link to the related news item on Game Republic's website. Big thank yous go to the organisers, hosts and sponsor! Last but not least: a WELL DONE to the iGGi Researchers!!! Previous 23 Nov 2023 Next

< Back Dr Shringi Kumari University of York iGGi Alum Shringi is a seasoned game designer with more than nine years of experience making games for companies including EA, Zynga, Bigpoint, and Wooga. She became a researcher four years ago, wondering how game designers can take inspiration from other creative fields. In her PhD, she is now studying how stage magic can be translated to games for creating believable illusions of choice and moments of surprise. She continues to consult as a game designer for companies and has started a lecturership in game design at University of East London. In the past years she has spoken about game design across the world at a number of known platforms: Indiecade Europe, Develop, Game Happens, SOMA Chicago, GDC India to count some. As a creative, she engages in working on disruptive design both in games and beyond. Her work reflects her Indian background and discusses universal issues of identity, need for diversity and the idea or illusion of home. She has recently published her debut poetry collection,“The Saree Shop” and has featured in a short story anthology with her story ”Garden of Vaginas”. Shringi is supervised by Dr Sebastian Deterding (York) and Dr Gustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths). Please note: Updating of profile text in progress Email Website LinkedIn Mastodon BlueSky GitHub Other Link Featured Publication(s): The role of uncertainty in moment-to-moment player motivation: a grounded theory Why game designers should study magic Investigating uncertainty in digital games and its impact on player immersion Studying General Agents in Video Games from the Perspective of Player Experience The Magician's Choice: Providing illusory choice and sense of agency with the Equivoque forcing technique. Design Inspiration for Motivating Uncertainty in Games using Stage Magic Principles Themes Player Research - Previous Next

< Back The Relationship Between Lockdowns and Video Game Playtime: Multilevel Time-Series Analysis Using Massive-Scale Data Telemetry Link Author(s) D Zendle, C Flick, D Halgarth, N Ballou, J Cutting, A Drachen Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back System and Method for Point Cloud Generation Link Author(s) T Bradley, MV Barreiro, O Hume, R Spick, J Walker Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Perceptions of Telepresence Robot Form Link Author(s) AI Nordin, M Hudson, A Denisova, J Beeston Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Prof. William Latham Goldsmiths iGGi Co-Investigator Supervisor William Latham is well known for his pioneering organic computer art created in the 80s and early 90s whilst a Research Fellow at IBM in Winchester. In 1993 he moved into Rave Music setting up a small studio in Soho, creating album covers, stage designs and videos for bands including The Shamen for three years. He then worked for ten years as Creative Director and CEO of a large computer games development company, with studios in London and Brighton, creating PC and console games published by Vivendi Universal, SONY and Warner Bros. Among the games he has produced were Evolva for Virgin Interactive, and the hit game The Thing for Vivendi Universal for Xbox, PlayStation, PC. based on the famous John Carpenter horror movie set in Antarctica. In 2007, he became a Professor in Computing at Goldsmiths, where he works on research projects with Imperial College, York University, and the Oxford Weatherall Institute. His recent "Mutator VR" Sci-Fi art experience developed at Goldsmiths for the HTC Vive has been exhibited to much acclaim in galleries and museums Shanghai, Venice, Kyoto, Dusseldorf and St. Petersburg. William was an undergraduate student at Christchurch College, Oxford University, and a postgraduate student at The Royal College of Art. His book on interactive evolutionary design, “Evolutionary Art and Computers” is cited as a leading publication in this domain. He is Director of SoftV Ltd, a company which develops Neuroscience Patient mobile Games Apps for the NHS in Unity, and is a co-founder of London Geometry Ltd. Email w.latham@gold.ac.uk Website LinkedIn Mastodon BlueSky GitHub Other Link Themes Creative Computing Immersive Technology - Previous Next

< Back Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse Link Author(s) Hadas Zohar, Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Danielle Barrios-O'Neill, Michal Pauzner, Oded Kutok, Laura Dudek, Erin Robinson Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Following the leader in multiplayer tabletop games Link Author(s) J Goodman, D Perez-Liebana, S Lucas Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Visualising Generative Spaces Using Convolutional Neural Network Embeddings Link Author(s) O Withington, L Tokarchuk Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Digital innovations in teacher Recruitment: An experimental study Link Author(s) RM Klassen, H Wang, J Cutting, S Thompson-Lee, RJS Snell, BH See, ... Abstract More info TBA Link