Esports

How might we use esports data to create immersive audience experiences, help players and teams improve, and understand human performance?

Project areas include:

Modelling team formation and metagame strategies in multiplayer games

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

Dr Tom Collins

Supervisor

Game AI, Game Audio, Game Data, Player Research, Esports

Dr Phoebe Hesketh

iGGi Alum

Player Research, Esports

Dr Patrik Huber

Supervisor

Applied Games, Game Data, Immersive Technology, Player Research, Esports

Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

iGGi Alum

Available for post-PhD position

Design & Development, Game Data, Esports

Dan Cooke

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for post-PhD position

Esports, Game Data, Player Research

Dr Jon Hook

Supervisor

Applied Games, Player Research, Esports

Dr Ben Kirman

Supervisor

Player Research, Creative Computing, Design & Development, Applied Games, Esports

Dr Charles Ringer

iGGi Alum

Game AI, Game Data, Esports

Prof. Anders Drachen

Supervisor

Player Research, Design & Development, Game Data, Esports

Dr Anne Hsu

Supervisor

Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research, Esports

Dr Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis

iGGi Alum

Game AI, Player Research, Esports

Dr Evelyn Tan

iGGi Alum

Player Research, Esports

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

Breaking the Acoustic Barrier: An Applied Game for Supporting Spatial Audio in Mobile Extended Reality Experiences

AP CHITAYAT, J Williams, JD HOOK

ACM CHI PLAY 2026, 2026

Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

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Beyond the Spotlight: Co-Designing AI for Theatre Audience Communication

A Pedrassoli Chitayat, S Carter, BA Robertson, J Hook

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

Steph Carter

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AI vs. the Algorithm: Measuring success on Twitch

AP Chitayat

2025 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 1-8, 2025

Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

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Applying machine learning to enhance esport broadcast narratives

A Pedrassoli Chitayat

University of York, 2025

Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

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Applying and Visualising Complex Models in Esport Broadcast Coverage

A Pedrassoli Chitayat, F Block, JA Walker, A Drachen

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2024

Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat

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Money laundering through video games, a criminals' playground

D Cooke, A Marshall

Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, Volume 50, 2024, 301802, ISSN 2666-2817

Dan Cooke

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