Attend talks on game studies by international speakers and students from Uppsala University!
The 20-minute talks will cover topics such as gender presentation, nostalgia in games, choice blindness, and much more.
Time: 8th of June, 10 am – 4 pm
Location: Rosa Huset, Donnersgatan 3, 621 57 Visby, Sweden
Preliminary schedule:
10:00 – 11:00
Conversational Agents for Mental Wellbeing
Ruoyu Wen
“Excuse Me, That’s My Face!” Exploring Lived Experience of Biometric Dispossession in AI Systems Through an Interactive Game
Maddy Rafy
11:00 – 12:00
The Blind Gamer: Examining Ethical Agency Through Choice Blindness in Game Design
Kamyab Ghorbanpour
Indirect psychological characterisation through focalisation
Vivien Birkás, Thuy Tien Tina Ha & Nela Niemirska
12:00 – 13:00
Break
13:00 – 14:00
Two Approaches of Nostalgic Elements Functioning in IDN
Zheng Wang
Virtual Nostalgia: Exploring Players’ Sentimental Attachment to Game Worlds
Clara Bohnsack, Oriol Viu i Duran
14:00 – 15:00
Close Reading of Clair Obscur: the Dessendre women’s narrative agency
Litsu Schneider
The Hamster in the Machine — A Critical VR Simulation of Chinese “996” Workplace Oppression through Procedural Rhetoric
Bowen Yu, Zheren Wang
15:00 – 16:00
First Play Experience in mechanically complex PVP action games: A look at improving the user experience for Recitallion
Dani-Alys Rizal
Dampened Borders, Permanent Damage: The Daoist Perspective on “Gentle” Colonialism via Paper-Based Iterative Design
Xueyu Luo