I study the satisfaction and, increasingly, frustration of basic psychological needs in video games. My focus is on how the interaction of personality, contextual, and game design factors affect player experience and longer-term psychosocial outcomes.

University of York.  Researches transformations in technology and media and how they reshape society and culture. This work focuses on the social power of algorithms and the politics of data and metrics.

Game analytics and player psychology: creating reliable models of player motivation Motivation can be loosely defined as a process of the brain and the mind, capable of driving and deeply shaping human behaviour. Motivational processes are embedded in many everyday life situations, exerting their effects via a wide range of incentive mechanisms and objects....

University of York.  Experience design researcher interested in designing, developing and evaluating multimodal and mixed physical/digital user experiences. Keen to work in the areas of digital experiences and games for disabled people and those with mental or physical illnesses.

Use of Artificial General Intelligence techniques, with particular focus on Statistical Forward Planning, for automatic playtesting through the exploration of the skill/strategic space of the game.

Queen Mary University of London.  My research explores new approaches to the creation of interactive technologies for media and arts through Interaction Design techniques. It impacts the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Creative Computing, and Design.

University of York. I am fascinated by the different experiences games offer players, what those experiences are and how to quantify them. I am also excited by using diverse research methods to understand games.

Researcher in Virtual Reality exploring the psychological impact of the technical setup of embodiment, with a focus on shared virtual environments for learning, health, and productivity.

Queen Mary University of London. Computational Creativity researcher working on getting AI software to act creatively in an autonomous fashion, with applications to procedural content generation, whole game design, music, visual art, design, mathematics and software engineering.

Measuring the experience of playing self-paced games (Industry Placement with Spiral Productions) Most research into games looks at fast paced action games. But there are lots of games like Angry Birds and Candy Crush Saga which hold player’s attention without needing fast reflexes or good co-ordination. Not all of these games are casual titles....

Creation of accessible tools for the use of procedural audio in video games The aim of this research is to investigate and provide new tools to developers for the use of procedural audio into video games. Procedural approaches could address different issues that commonly afflict game audio. In music, generative systems are not only less repetitive, but offer more adaptability as well....

Learning and Strategy Acquisition in Digital Games Given the success and impact of games and the gaming industry, it is unsurprising that it has become the centre of a significant body of academic research and other literature....

University of York. A designer-researcher working on games and playful design for enjoyment, learning, wellbeing, and climate adaptation. Especially interested in curiosity in games, motivational affordances, behaviour change, design research, psychology of games, methods for entertainment and applied game design.

Queen Mary University of London. Interactive Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law scholar and Video Games enthusiast. Especially interested in the relationship among creativity, interactivity, technology and the law.

University of York. Data scientist focusing on behavioral modeling in the Creative Industries.

Queen Mary University of London. Academic interested in applying gamification for human-machine interactive systems, including robotic-based rehabilitation.

Year 1 game researcher with a background in audio engineering, interested in flow and player experiences in music-based games. Specifically, on designing dynamic difficulty adjustment systems to improve these experiences.

De Montfort University. Technology ethicist with an interest in the ethics and social impact of video games and innovative research methods. Anything to do with games, philosophy, society, critical theory, diversity & inclusion, or ethics.  

Former humanities student now researching the implications and applications of failure in video games. Especially interested in human-computer interaction, game design, and unusual gaming experiences.

University of York. Lina’s expertise is in the clinical utility of digital media as means to specialist interventions for mental health. She has led the development and evaluation of software-based systems, including games and mixed reality applications, for use in psychological therapies and skills training.