I’ve now uploaded the final version of my dissertation Plans and Purposes: How videogame goals shape player behaviour (4.5MB PDF).
It differs from the previously uploaded draft by having fewer obvious typos. Nothing of substance was changed, I assure you. More info is available at the PhD page.
This Thursday I succesfully defended my PhD thesis entitled Plans and Purposes: How Videogame Goals Shape Player Behaviour (slides / preliminary dissertation final dissertation).
The opponents asked reasonable questions, the technical equipment worked flawlessly, the post-defense red wine was half-decent, and any post-defence tension was relieved through honorable Guitar Hero combat. Thanks to everyone who showed up.
And a warm congratulations to ex-roomie Miguel Sicart who defended his thesis on games and ethics yesterday (Miguel’s preliminary thesis).
I’ll be uploading the final version of my thesis as soon as it’s ready.
Mission completed.
(oh and I love the Germanification of my name on the ITU posters. It has a nice academic ring).
– “Look, players ARE rational. End of story”.
… will be held at ITU on Monday 27.11.2006.
From the official page:
Monday November 27th 2006, 8:30-16:15
IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen s, Auditorium 2. How to get here.
The emotional dimension of computer games has has in the recent years became a popular focus for game research and development. While new games appear dubbed as “emotional rollercoaster rides”, academic research projects attempting to understand games and emotions pop up on the fields of game studies, psychology and HCI, to name a few. Even if one does not subscribe to David Freeman’s statement that the next revolution in games is emotional, the topicality of emotions as both a subject and an approach for computer games research seems evident.
Continue reading First European symposium on Computer Games and Emotions
My evaluation comitee has found my dissertation (draft version final version) to be defensible, which means I move on to the final level: Defending the thing on 7 December.
We are close now, we feels it…
I’ve uploaded the version of my dissertation that was handed in final version (4.5 MB PDF).
Since I’ll have the chance to make post-defence edits, this is technically a draft version.