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?

Project areas include:

Understanding and measuring player experience and motivation
Using tools from neuroscience and psychology to understand emotion in game players
Obtaining game player feedback without breaking immersion

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

Emily Marriott

iGGi Alum

Player Research

Dr Cade McCall

Supervisor

Applied Games, Game Data, Player Research

Prakriti Nayak

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for placement

Applied Games, Accessibility, Player Research

Dr Michael Saiger

iGGi Alum

Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research

Sarah Masters

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for post-PhD position

Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research

Sahar Mirhadi

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for post-PhD position

Player Research

Zoë O’Shea

iGGi PG Researcher

Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Lisa Sha Li

iGGi Alum

Player Research

Dr Debbie Maxwell

Supervisor

Applied Games, Player Research, Design & Development

Dr Mihail Morosan

iGGi Alum

Game AI, Design & Development, Player Research

Dr Elena Gordon-Petrovskaya

iGGi Alum

Player Research

Amy Smith

iGGi PG Researcher

Available for post-PhD position

Creative Computing, Player Research

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

CG-TTRL: Context-Guided Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for On-Device Large Language Models

P Hosseini, O Bohdal, T Ceritli, I Castro, M Purver, M Ozay, U Michieli

arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.06430, 2025

Peyman Hosseini

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"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

Lauren Winter

Dr Laura Helsby

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Open Play: A longitudinal dataset of multi-platform video game digital trace data and psychological measures

N Ballou, TA Földes, M Vuorre, T Hakman, K Magnusson, AK Przybylski

PsyArXiv. https://doi. org/10.31234/osf. io/nz96c_v1, 2025

Dr Nick Ballou

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Reliving 10 years old: Descriptive Insights into Retro Gaming

N Ballou, N Bowman, T Hakman, AK Przybylski

OSF, 2025

Dr Nick Ballou

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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

Dr Michael Saiger

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Psychological wellbeing, sleep, and video gaming: Analyses of comprehensive digital traces stage 1 programmatic registered report

N Ballou, TA Földes, T Hakman, M Vuorre, K Magnusson, AK Przybylski

PsyArXiv. https://doi. org/10.31234/osf. io/kvqdy_v1, 2025

Dr Nick Ballou

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