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Magy Seif El-Nasr is an associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design, where she directs the Game User Interaction and Intelligence (GUII) Lab. Dr. Seif El-Nasr earned her Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University in Computer Science. Her research focuses on two goals (a) developing automated tools and techniques for authoring, adapting, and personalizing virtual environments (e.g., interactive narrative, believable characters, and visuals), and (b) developing evidence-based methodologies to measure the effectiveness of game environments through the development of novel in-depth behavior mining and visual analytics tools. She published the first book on the subject of game analytics, called Game Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Player Data. Her work is internationally known and cited in several game industry books. Additionally, she has received several awards and recognition within the game research community. Notably, she received four Best Paper Awards and was named as a HEVGA (Higher Education Video Game Alliance) Fellow. She is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Games and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
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Interactive 3D environments, interactive narratives and digital games, are emerging as platforms used for entertainment, education, training, and citizen science. The potential social impact of these environments on such a wide variety of application domains elevates the importance of the development of novel methods that can enhance the design quality of such environments as well as assess their utility. Due to its importance, this topic has received much attention within the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and games research communities as well as the games industry. In the past few years, researchers within academia and industry have proposed various methods to understand, capture and channel the user experience culminating in the areas of Game User Research and Game Analytics/Game Data Science. These methods are often embedded in the design process to aid in tuning the quality of the design and evaluate its utility to the given application domain. In this talk, I will focus on discussing novel methods and methodologies spanning the areas of Game Data Science and Game User Research that my research group have developed over years of collaborations with various organizations and industry partners. I will use several case studies to show the impact of these new methods in gaining insights about the user experience to enhance and assess the design of different types of games, including social games for health, entertainment games, e-sports, and educational games.
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Renzo is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in digital game industry. He has been programmer, producer, consultant, instructor and international speaker. Renzo is founder of the ArtiGames company and the School of Digital Games ArtiGames. He is co-founder of the Peruvian Game Development Association (APDEVA).
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In ArtiGames we are developing a AAA game. We begin this adventure 8 years ago and after a lot of work, effort and sacrifice we almost have a first chapter game ready to raise investment. We are going to show part of the development process and also share our experience in this quite complicated adventure.
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Soraia Raupp Musse is an associate professor at the School of Technology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), where she created and coordinates the Virtual Human Laboratory. Her research interests include crowd simulation and analysis, facial animation, and integration of computer graphics, pattern recognition and computer vision applied to games. Dr. Musse has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Fèdérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) where she was supervised by Prof. Daniel Thalmann. Recently, she spent a year at UPENN (USA) working as a visiting scholar with Prof. Norman Badler. She has supervised more than 40 graduate students and postdocs and published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences. She is a member of Brazilian Special Group in Games and Digital Entertainment from Brazilian Computer Society. She also published four books on the domain of Crowd and behaviors Simulation with Springer-Verlag.
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In this presentation, I will talk about the work I have done in the Crowds area since 1996, focusing on security systems and digital entertainment. In particular, I have worked to extract data from pedestrians and crowds, including cultural and personality analysis, which may also include faces and body poses. All analyzed data can be used in entertainment applications to improve the realism of simulated behaviors. In addition, I will mention some recent studies involving the perception of faces and crowds that we are currently investigating.
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Co-founder of Immersion Games, belongs to the International Association of Game Developers in Colombia. More than 10 years of experience in videogames creation, published by Ubisoft, Konami and with large IPs like Chavo del 8 for video games with Televisa. The most recent project he got involved in was Ark Survival Evolved
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Co-founder and Creative Director of Efecto Studios, video game developer working in the industry for more than 20 years. He is creative director at Efecto Studios, a video game development company in Bogotá, Colombia. He has specialized in game design and level design.
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Experience as a partner and director of videogames companies for more than a decade. Doctor cum laude in Fine Arts from the Computense University of Madrid and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the UCM, Master's Degree in Advertising and Corporate Identity and Expert certified by Autodesk in 3D Animation and Digital Postproduction.
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Life Science Product Manager at HCG Technologies responsible for developing specialized applications using motion capture, surface EMG and force platforms.
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Doctor in BBAA from the University of Castilla La Mancha. Bachelor's degree from the Complutense University of Madrid. The research line focuses on the paradigms of graphic representation in digital media through the study of Representation Systems in the artistic and technological environment of the Video Game.
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Impeller of the video game development industry in Mexico with 13 years of experience. Start working as a Producer in the first developments for consoles in the country. Working in different areas the industry as location, events, publishing and actively collaborating with the government and academy.
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Coordinator of the UFF Medialab, He has a degree in Computer Science and a master's and doctorate from the PUC-Rio. His main research and development area is digital games, virtual reality, GPUs and visualization. He is one of the founders of the SBGames (Brazilian Symposium of Games and Digital Entertainment)
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She is an associate professor in production logistics at the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. She is the director of the master's program in logistics. In addition, she is director of BIBAgamingLab at Bremer Institut fur Produktion und Logistik
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He is an assistant professor of game and game design at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is the research director of TU / e Game / Play Lab, and secretary of the Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee on Entertainment Computing (TC14).
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Game developer with 10 years of experience, having worked in multiple companies and former director of the association of video game developers in Chile, VG Chile.
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