Students

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Human-Computer Interaction researcher focusing on what players enjoy about their opponents in strategy games, whether human or AI, and applying that to game design and AI construction.

General​ ​video​ ​game​ ​playing​ ​agents​ ​to​ ​evaluate​ ​automatic​ ​generated​ ​levels Procedural Content generation (PCG) refers to the generation of game content via automated processes. The validity of these artifacts should be checked to ensure their playability. Common approaches are game-specific and, although they ensure the playability of the generated content, they are limited by the game they are defined for....

Multidisciplinary researcher applying Multiagent Deep Reinforcement learning and Game theory to generate gameplaying AI agents for a wide variety of games.

Interaction and technical designer looking at how new players learn to play games and how best to support learning of games. Focusing on learning and supporting learning in Esport games.

Game design researcher looking at stage magic principles for extracting design inspiration for evoking motivating uncertainty. Specifically applying the forcing principle of equivoque for creating decision uncertainty in narrative games.

Using digital games to understand productive team dynamics. Especially interested in understanding how to develop cohesion in within newly formed virtual teams in competitive esport games..

A game focused design researcher exploring perspective challenging moments in games through the lens of reflection, critical design, eudemonic enjoyment, and meaningful mechanics.