We are proud to announce that this year’s seminar will play host to not two, but three expert commentators:
Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux are associate professors at the University of California, Davis where they make, play, and think about games together. Their research and teaching engage media theory and media art, game studies and game design to explore the community practices and material histories of play. Their first book, Metagaming, is about the games people play in, on, around, and through videogames—from romhacking and speedrunning to esports tournaments and alternative control. They also have been developing a small series of metagames together like Triforce, a topological transformation of The Legend of Zelda, and the Octopad, an eight-player controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Additionally, they are cast members of Every Game in This City, a podcast about playing well together on the Idle Thumbs Network. For more information visit https://stephanieboluk.com and https://patrick-lemieux.com.
Sebastian Deterding is a translational design researcher working on tools and methods to make psychology actionable for designers – and advance psychology with design-based research. He is most well-known for his work in games HCI and gamification. He holds a Chair in Design Engineering at the Dyson School at Imperial College London, is founding editor-in-chief of the journal ACM Games: Research and Practice, co-editor of The Gameful World (MIT Press, 2015) and Role-Playing Game Studies (Routledge, 2018), and has helped create engaging experiences touching millions of users for organisations including ABB, Amazon, BBC, BMW, Greenpeace, KLM, Novartis, Supercell, and many others.
We are so glad to be welcoming these scholars to Tampere in May and hope to be able to host many of you as well!
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