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Themes (All) iGGi is a collaboration between Uni of York + Queen Mary Uni of London: the largest training programme worldwide for doing a PhD in digital games. iGGi Themes 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? Design & Development How might we advance game-making with new design and development insights, methods, tools, and techniques? Immersive Technology How might we advance the use and understanding of VR, XR, AR, and other immersive technologies in games? Game Audio How might we combine data, AI, and music psychology to create engaging adaptive music and sound experiences for games? Esports How might we use esports data to create immersive audience experiences, help players and teams improve, and understand human performance? Applied Games How might we design and use games to support health, learning, work, and conduct scientific research? Creative Computing How can AI tools enhance the creative process of (human) game creatives? Player Research How might we use and combine diverse methods to understand how people experience games, interact with and through them, and are affected by them? Accessibility How might we design and make games playable and inclusive to as wide a range of people as possible, regardless of background or ability? Game Data How might we analyse the big data exhausts of games to support game developers and understand people inside and outside of games?

< Back What Is a Game Jam? Link Author(s) G Lai, F Khosmood Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Prof. Marian Ursu Goldsmiths Supervisor Marian Ursu has a first degree in Computer Science, a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, and has worked over the past twenty years in the development of new forms of mediated expression and interaction, in the space of convergence of digital technology with creative practice. He worked at Goldsmiths, University of London, pioneering “creative computing”, a term denoting a fundamental link between digital technologies, the arts and media. At York, he led the development of the Interactive Media subject area in the department of Theatre Film Television and Interactive Media, inherently interdisciplinary, building on Computer Science, User Experience Design, Media Practice and Cultural Studies. He is a co-founder and the Director of the Digital Creativity (DC) Labs ( https://digitalcreativity.ac.uk ), a centre of excellence in impact-driven research in creativity for games, narrative media and the rich space of media convergence that lies in between, and Co-Director of XR Stories ( https://xrstories.co.uk ), a creative industries partnership working across film, TV, games, media arts, heritage, advertising and technology to champion a new future in storytelling, in which he leads on Research and Development. His personal research is situated in the area of narrative experiences in scree media – shared screens (film, TV), personal screens (games, social media), stories in VR, XR narrative experiences – drawing from and building on established narrative art-forms and media including film and TV, radio, theatre, and opera. One of his key research objective is to explore the creative process that emerges in dialogue between humans and machines (AI). On one hand, this is necessary for the authoring of more complex narrative experiences that truly exploit the affordances of interactive and immersive digital media technologies. On the other hand, this is a yet poorly untapped space of opportunities, potentially conducive to significant findings. He is particularly interested in supervising students interested in exploring creativity in dialogue with AI and/or the development of novel narrative experiences, in topics including: Conceptualising the space of interactive storytelling Developing authoring tools and techniques for interactive storytelling Creating new forms of narrative engagement Analysing the concept of creativity in interactive media which emerges in conversation with AI Research themes: Narrative Games; Narrative Experiences Storytelling with Convergent Media Object-Based Media Computational Creativity Live mediated experiences (performance, sports, esports) Entertainment media and mental health Games and Theatre marian.ursu@york.ac.uk Email Mastodon Other links Website https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianursu/?originalSubdomain=uk LinkedIn BlueSky Github Themes Creative Computing Player Research - Previous Next

< Back Action Selection in the Creative Systems Framework Link Author(s) S Linkola, C Guckelsberger, A Kantosalo Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Exploring Minecraft Settlement Generators with Generative Shift Analysis Link Author(s) Jean-Baptiste Hervé, Oliver Withington, Marion Hervé, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Christoph Salge Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Investigating uncertainty in digital games and its impact on player immersion Link Author(s) S Kumari, C Power, P Cairns Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Player Expectations of Strategy Game AI Link Author(s) D Gomme Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Deep unsupervised multi-view detection of video game stream highlights Link Author(s) C Ringer, MA Nicolaou 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. Player Research Limited

< 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 Dr 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 Dr 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 Dr 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 Intrinsic Motivation in Computational Creativity Applied to Videogames. PhD Thesis. 306 pages. Link Author(s) C Guckelsberger Abstract More info TBA Link

< Back Different rules for binocular combination of luminance flicker in cortical and subcortical pathways Link Author(s) FG Segala, A Bruno, MT Aung, AR Wade, DH Baker Abstract More info TBA Link