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Game Analytics and Player Psychology PhD studentship in partnership with Square Enix West

An amazing opportunity for a Square Enix PhD studentship: Game Analytics and Player Psychology

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Develop 2017

11 / 7 / 2017

The DC Labs and IGGI teams will be at the Develop Conference in Brighton this year. Come and have a chat with us on stand B22 to find out more about what we can offer from internships through to direct support.

#ai #audio #design #engagement #games #hci

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IGGI Conference 2017

14 / 9 / 2017

The IGGI Centre for Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence conference is your annual game research download from 150+ PhD students and researchers at York, Goldsmiths and Essex Universities.

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Project

Decision Making AI for Games

This project aims to inspire a paradigm shift in the algorithms used to generate agent behaviour in commercial games, helping to create a new generation of intelligent games.

#ai #data #education #engagement #esports #games #hci #storytelling #visualisation

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ESL and University of York Announce World-First Collaboration

DC Labs will make a substantial investment in esports research as part of this world-first collaboration in esports between ESL and the University of York.

#esports #games #hci #visualisation

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Visual Game Analytics

Behavioural data from games are highly complex and difficult to visualise and make actionable. We're developing customisable visualisation tools for esports to help make these insights more accessible.

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Esports

In collaboration with the IGGI Centre for Doctoral Training, DC Labs are investing over £1m in esports-related research, drawing on a world-leading, multi-disciplinary team of scientists from across Artificial Intelligence, Game Design, Game Analytics, TV production, Interactive Storytelling, Human Computer Interaction, Data Visualisation, Learning Science, Sociology and Psychology.

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IGGI Games Research Centre to Launch new Research / Industry Conference

IGGI announces annual conference to take place on 14/15 Sept 2017 with keynotes from Jo Twist from UKIE, Katja Hofmann from Microsoft Research, Samim Winiger from Creative.ai and Mary Flanagan from Tiltfactor.

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Understanding players through Esports data

Your skill in esports games correlates with your intelligence, which suggests we could use IQ tests to find gifted esports players from a young age, even before they play the games.

#audio #design #education #hci #heritage #vr

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VR Vikings: First Immersive Experience of Viking Worlds

DC Labs has recreated the sights and sounds of a Viking army camp using a specially designed virtual reality mask, being shown as part of a major new exhibition: Viking: Rediscover the Legend at the Yorkshire Museum.

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Democratising game design: 'Fluidic Games'

The MetaMakers Institute at Falmouth are creating games which allow anyone and everyone to express themselves through creating digital games, regardless of their technical skill level.

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Creative Media for Theatre and Performance

Theatre has been a fundamental means of communicating stories to audiences in cultures across the world for millennia and is a major part of the UK’s creative landscape.

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MutatorVR and Organic Art VR; Evolutionary Virtual Reality Worlds

Organic Art VR surrounds the viewer and places them inside strange evolving forms resembling sea anemones, ancient ammonites and multi-horned organisms with which they can interact. The forms the viewer sees are reminiscent of those one might encounter in an alternative alien evolution.