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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

iGGi >>> People <<< relevant to this Theme:

Dr Nuria Peña Pérez

Dr Nuria Peña Pérez

iGGi Alum

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Applied Games

Prof. Greg Slabaugh

Prof. Greg Slabaugh

Supervisor

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Applied Games, Creative Computing, Immersive Technology

Luiza Gossian

Luiza Gossian

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Applied Games, Design & Development

Dr Andrew James Wood

Dr Andrew James Wood

Supervisor

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Applied Games, Design & Development, Game Data

Dr Michael Saiger

Dr Michael Saiger

iGGi Alum

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Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research

Philip Smith

Philip Smith

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Applied Games, Design & Development

Dr Laurissa Tokarchuk

Dr Laurissa Tokarchuk

Supervisor

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Immersive Technology, Creative Computing, Player Research, Applied Games, Game AI

Pilar Zhang Qiu

Pilar Zhang Qiu

iGGi Alum

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Applied Games

Prasad Sandbhor

Prasad Sandbhor

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for post-PhD position

Applied Games, Design & Development

Filip Sroka

Filip Sroka

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Game AI, Applied Games, Immersive Technology

Prof. Alex Wade

Prof. Alex Wade

Supervisor

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Player Research, Applied Games, Creative Computing, Game Data, Esports

iGGi >>> Publications <<< relevant to this Theme:

"Leave our kids alone!": Exploring Concerns Reported by Parents in 1-star Reviews

L Winter, DI Zendle, L Helsby

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Digital innovations in teacher Recruitment: An experimental study

RM Klassen, H Wang, J Cutting, S Thompson-Lee, RJS Snell, BH See, ...

Computers & education, 105450, 2025

Examining the influence of target-distractor similarity on difficulty in a working memory game

M Frister, F McNab, M Croissant, P Cairns

Entertainment Computing, 101060, 2025

Learning through play? What board games reveal and conceal about climate change

L Dunlop, E Joucoski, P Sandbhor

Environmental Education Research, 1-21, 2025

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

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

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