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Integrating Twitter in the Classroom

Lennart Nacke — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:25:08 +0000

If you ended up in higher education, have you ever asked yourself where revolutions in the classroom come from? After I started at UOIT as a professor, full of enthusiasm and bursting with ideas, I have certainly pondered on this question for quite a bit, especially last year during my first semester teaching two university [...]

Now also blogging at Physiological Computing

Lennart Nacke — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:00:39 +0000

I recently organized a CHI workshop on Brain and Body Interfaces together with Kiel and Steve from PhysiologicalComputing.net. We have been talking about common interests for a while now and it was great to organize this workshop together as it is the second one on this topic at CHI that I was involved in. Since [...]

Caution with Biometrics, Game Evaluation and UX

Lennart Nacke — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:05:02 +0000

Using biometrics for psychophysiological evaluation is becoming a popular approach in game user research. While results of this work can look stunning, experimental control is important if you want to interpret your data in a way that is robust.

Epilogue to my open letter

Lennart Nacke — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:50:28 +0000

In this place used to be a blog post I wrote because copyrighted images from my PhD research had been misrepresented in a webinar from a lady in the US and I wanted to clarify the real story behind my pictures and my research. This was done successfully. The lady has removed these pictures from [...]

Reward anticipation - A powerful tool for game design

Lennart Nacke — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:32:13 +0000

A neurobiological understanding of games has at its core the dopaminergic reward system [cite]10.1145/1920778.1920780[/cite]. The the nucleus accumbens, which is also dubbed the pleasure center of the brain, is currently understood as the critical brain region associated with the neurotransmitter dopamine, which in turn is implicated in habit formation, reward-seeking behaviors and addiction. The above [...]

Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction Repository

Lennart Nacke — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:47:01 +0000

I recently wrote a book chapter (PDF) for Mark Grimshaw’s book Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments published by IGI Global. Since the book is rather expensive, a list of the chapters was compiled by the authors, which can be downloaded from their websites. I think, this book deserves to be read [...]

The Gamification of Steam

Lennart Nacke — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:55:40 +0000

Whether you like the new buzz term or not. Gamification — that is the use of engaging playing principles applied to desktop and consumer applications, products, and services — is a big thing in research and (non-game) industry. Even SIGCHI was kind enough to let us organize a CHI 2011 workshop on gamification. It is [...]

Canada FTW!

Lennart Nacke — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:07:24 +0000

Since I recently moved to Canada to work in an awesome HCI research lab, I seem to spend more time on life and work, outside the web and blogosphere that is. My recent affection for Twitter due to its short and timely messages has also contributed to me moving away from blogging more. Nevertheless, I [...]

This space is intentionally left blank

Lennart Nacke — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:25:41 +0000

While I managed to get some momentum with this blog in December, my time has been sparse at the start of the year (especially January). Much has happened. I have successfully defended one of the first Ph.D. degrees in Digital Game Development (read about it and download my thesis from here) in Sweden. Leading up [...]

24 - Merry Christmas

Lennart Nacke — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:01:25 +0000

Slideshare is down. Merry Christmas!