• Hector Institute for Education Sciences & Psychology, Tübingen, Germany.
• LEAD Graduate School & Research Network.

• Hector Institute for Education Sciences & Psychology, Tübingen, Germany.

• Hector Institute for Education Sciences & Psychology, Tübingen, Germany.
• LEAD Graduate School & Research Network.

About me: I work with leaders and organizations to create meaningful shifts in ways that are holistic, collaborative and equitable. I partner with executive leaders as a strategic advisor and a leadership coach to support them and their organizations manage change and develop team and organizational cultures that are diverse, inclusive and equitable. I come with over 20 years of practical experience as a global executive and consultant in the areas of DE&I, transformation, leadership development, new ways of working and culture.

Keywords: social psychology, psychology of individual differences, gamification, game-based learning, instructional design

Research interests: being a social psychologist originally, I'm interested in all kinds of social interaction. Therefore, I'm especially interested in social aspects of games and how these can help people learn and grow. Lately, I've been focusing on the fostering of creativity through GBL, and also would like to investigate how games can help neurodivergent learners unlock their full potential. Also, I'm a voluntary member of the EU-FairPlay organization team. :)

Keywords

Game Development, educational app, inclusive design

Kokoro Kids is an educational games application where children learn while having fun with hundreds of games, activities, stories and songs.

Created by experts in early education and neuropsychology to help in the emotional and cognitive development of the little ones, based on game-based learning and the theory of multiple intelligences.

The application has hundreds of activities and games that offer a personalized experience at each child's level. With Kokoro's content, they can play instruments, solve challenges, learn to count, learn vocabulary or express their creativity

Each child learns at his or her own pace, so the games are suitable for all ages, but especially for children in kindergarten and primary school.

Keywords: Video game research, NLP, Mental health benefits, Hype in Science

Research Interests: About a month ago I started my PhD under the supervision of Ass.-Prof Manuel Ninaus in Graz. My dissertation will be about the potential mental health benefits of video games. We plan to investigate the reviews of players of different platforms (Steam, Youtube, Reddit) using Natural Language Processing techniques to gain better insights into the mental health implications of different video games and follow that up with a study in the lab. My other interest is hype in science, which was the topic of my master thesis in which we investigated the use of positive words in PubMed abstracts. That is also my only publication to date.

Link: https://online.uni-graz.at/kfu_online/wbForschungsportal.cbShowPortal?pFpFospNr=&pOrgNr=&pPersonNr=129590&pMode=E&pLevel=PERS&pCallType=PUB

Lecturer at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and at Isabel 1 (Spain). Department of Physical Education, Art and Music Didactics at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

Keywords

Video game, Art, Plastic and Visual Education, Aesthetics, Videoludic Aesthetics, History, Serious Games, Gamification.

Research and professional interests

I´m mainly interest is videoludic aesthetics and the video game as an art and expressive medium and how is its learning and teaching (including game-based learning and playful learning, both formally and informally). My secondary interest is video games and history.

Both interests fall within the area of didactics of visual and plastic expression.

Social:

Twitter: @rutxigarcia

BlueSkye: @rutxigarcia.bsky.social

Web: https://www.arsludica.es/

Keywords: expert-novice interaction, eye-tracking, visual expertise, instructional design, cognitive load

Research interests: my PhD research focuses on the interactions between experts and novices when learning how to interpret complex visuals. Imagine a radiologist teaching a resident how to diagnose an x-ray, or a forensic researcher teaching an apprentice how to reconstruct a car crash using 3D software. My research uses wearable eye-tracking glasses to identify what experts and novices look at during their learning interactions.

and on a personal note - I work with commercial AR outside my research work, including AR gamification for marketing purposes :)

Dr. Liarokapis holds a BEng in ‘Computer Systems Engineering’ from the University of Sussex, an MSc in ‘Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments’ from the University of Hull, and a DPhil with title ‘Augmented Reality Interfaces-Architectures for Visualising and Interacting with Virtual Information’ from the University of Sussex.

Before moving to Cyprus, he was an Associate Professor and the Director of the HCI Lab at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Prior to this, he was employed as a Senior Lecturer by the department of Computing, Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University. He was also a research fellow at the ‘Serious Games Institute’ (SGI), Coventry University. Previously, he worked as a research fellow at City University and before that as a research officer at the University of Sussex.

Dr. Liarokapis (IEEE member) has contributed to more than 160 refereed publications with more than 6631 citations (h-index: 39 and i10-index: 99) in the broad areas of virtual and augmented reality, serious games, computer graphics and brain computer interfaces. In the h-index for Greek origin Computer Scientists & Engineers he is ranked in the 249th position (all over the world), whereas in the Cyprus Scientist and University Rankings 2023 he is ranked in the 46th position (across all disciplines). Also, included into the top 2% cited scientists according to Stanford University.

He has organised multiple conferences and workshops and he is the co-founder of the International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games). Recently, he was the program-chair of IEEE CoG 2020 and IEEE CoG 2021 as well as the general chair of IMET 2022. He co-organized the 'Mixing Realities: Cross-reality Visualization, Interaction, and Collaboration' workshop at IEEE VR 2023. Currently, he is the general co-chair of IMET 2023, the publications chair of Mobile HCI 2023, and the general co-chair of Eurographics 2024.

University of Technology, Psychology of Learning with Digital Media - CRC "Hybrid Societies"

Cognitive Psychology, Human Computer Interaction,

gamification, game-based learning, instructional design

Research interests: My PhD focuses on human-computer interaction and embodiment effects to support learning process motivational and cognitive. And to use gamification aspects in these interactions to enhance the learning process, e.g. in serious games or parasocial interactions.

Academia https://uv.academia.edu/ricardhuerta

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1430-3198

Email ricard.huerta@uv.es

Social networks:

Instagram - @esteticas_olvidadas

Twitter - @FredericTorres

Twitter: @rajivvb

LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/rvbasaiawmoit

Use my E-mail: rvb@au.dk to connect with me on LI or directly

Keywords: Research, Education innovation, Leadership, Research management, Mobile learning, Game-based learning, Virtual Reality, 21st century skills, Social inequalities.

Research: I am the Research Manager at EramusX, a unit that works on innovating education for students at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I work with researchers and research assistants on multiple cutting-edge projects which include mobile learning, game-based learning, virtual reality, 21st century skills, among others. My interests are research methods, leadership, diversity, education, innovation, public health and social inequalities.

I am currently a tenure-track assistant professor in Game-Based Learning at the Faculty of Education and Culture. I hold the title of a Docent in Multimodal Methods in Learning Sciences. I mainly apply experimental research designs in technology-enhanced learning contexts. My current research focuses on the utilization of multimodal data (e.g., electrodermal activity, heart rate, facial expressions, and video data) for understanding social cognition and social contagion in game-based and collaborative learning environments. 

Research topics

Emotional contagion; physiological synchrony; leader-follower dynamics in collaborative learning; metacognition and metacognitive experiences in game-based learning; online measures of learning

Research unit

Games for Learning - GFL

Research fields

Technology-enhanced learning; game-based learning; computer-supported collaborative learning; technology integration in education.

Keywords: Start-Up, Game-based-learning-practice, Educational revolution, didactics, pedagogy, mathematics

Description: I am a Primaryschool Teacher. With a great team I am founding the Modellschool Marille which will be a Modell for sustainable education in our future.

Let's stay in touch:

Linked-In

friederike.manzer@gmx.de

Keywords: Serious Games, Games for Health, Gamification, Internet of Things, Sensor Games, Wearables

Research Interests:

I am a Senior Lecturer in Games at the Manchester Metropolitan University. I am researching the use of sensors in games applications, the effectiveness of utilising games for mental and physical rehabilitation, and the effectiveness of gamification in higher education. I am the Lead for the Games Science Lab at the Department of Computing and Mathematics. The research lab brings together a group of computer scientists with a specialism or keen interest in research on games technologies and human computer interaction related to games applications. I am also the Theme Leader for Serious Games in Health at the Manchester Game Centre.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjohnhenry/

Games Science Lab: https://games-science-lab-mmu.notion.site/

Manchester Game Centre: https://manchestergamecentre.org/