Campus Gotland GAME | Games & Society Lab Speaker Series: The Importance of Play (Marie Jarrell) @CampusGotlandGAME | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Learn more about the Games & Society Lab: https://speldesign.uu.se/research/games-and-society-lab/
In this episode, Dr. Marie Jarrell talks about embodied identification, the connection you get from controlling a game character. If we see game characters as an extension of ourselves, can this shift how we see ourself outside of the game? And can it change how we see others around us?
Marie Jarrell is a PhD graduate from the Human-Centered Computing Division of the School of Computing at Clemson University. They build video games to research their impact on human learning, perceptions, and real world biases. They have published, presented, and received numerous awards for their work illustrating the significant and varied impact video games can have on people’s lives and larger society.
About the Speaker Series:
The Games & Society Lab Speaker Series invites practitioners and researchers in and around game design to present their work, thoughts, and process. The goal of the series is to illuminate different perspectives and approaches to game design, and to inspire and excite the next generation of game designers.
The Games & Society Lab is part of the Department of Game Design at Uppsala University Campus Gotland. Learn more about the department, and the educations we offer:
https://speldesign.uu.se/
Learn more about the Games & Society Lab: https://speldesign.uu.se/research/games-and-society-lab/
In this episode, Dr. Marie Jarrell talks about embodied identification, the connection you get from controlling a game character. If we see game characters as an extension of ourselves, can this shift how we see ourself outside of the game? And can it change how we see others around us?
Marie Jarrell is a PhD graduate from the Human-Centered Computing Division of the School of Computing at Clemson University. They build video games to research their impact on human learning, perceptions, and real world biases. They have published, presented, and received numerous awards for their work illustrating the significant and varied impact video games can have on people’s lives and larger society.
About the Speaker Series:
The Games & Society Lab Speaker Series invites practitioners and researchers in and around game design to present their work, thoughts, and process. The goal of the series is to illuminate different perspectives and approaches to game design, and to inspire and excite the next generation of game designers.
The Games & Society Lab is part of the Department of Game Design at Uppsala University Campus Gotland. Learn more about the department, and the educations we offer:
https://speldesign.uu.se/
