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Gaming and Eye Tracking: Gameplay Experience in a Gaze Interaction Game

The Acagamic — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:17:05 +0000

Eye tracking has – for quite a while – attracted game researchers to use this exciting technology to interact with new media, especially games, since from a viewpoint of game accessibility, it opens gaming up to people with severe motor disabilities. At the COGAIN conference in May, we have presented a paper with results from [...]

Project Natal and the Future of Gaming

The Acagamic — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:51:11 +0000

Microsoft’s press conference on this year’s E3 is just over and they have, of course, positioned their box as an allround entertainment platform, incorporating possible competitive online media (like social media platforms Twitter and Facebook) and offline passive entertainment (music from last.fm, movies from netflix). But, the largest announcement was probably the long-awaited full body [...]

My GDC Canada Experience – Day Two

The Acagamic — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:01:29 +0000

Panelists: Mike, Tad, Regan, Alessandro, Lennart. Read about day one. Having survived day one of GDC Canada, filled with meeting great people and listening to excellent talks, the next day would even top my experience. First, of course, I went to see the keynote by Bioware founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk about [...]

My GDC Canada Experience – Day One

The Acagamic — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:15:54 +0000

Photo by Lennart (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License) Just came back from joint conferences GDC Canada and Future Play, a combination of events that I would like to call the perfect game-industry-academia cocktail mixed by some very talented Canadians. I had the pleasure to speak at both events about the subject I am passionate about: [...]

Worldwide Game Research Clusters Map

The Acagamic — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:07:49 +0000

After a recent discussion about centers of game research around the world and the responses it generated on the DiGRA mailing list, I have created a Google Map that shows the institutions doing game research around the world. Interestingly, most of them are in the United States and Europe. Of course the results may be [...]