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- #gamesUR Online Summit 2022
- #gamesUR Online Summit 2021
- GRUX Online 2021
- GRUX Online 2020
- GUR Virtual Summer Camp 2020
- #gamesUR SF 2019
- #gamesUR EU Summit 2018
- #gamesUR SF Summit 2018
- #gamesUR EU Summit 2017
- #gamesUR SF Summit 2017
- #gamesUR EU Summit 2016
- What is Games User Research?
- #gamesUR SF Summit 2016
- #gamesUR SF Summit 2015
- #gamesUR EU Summit 2015
- #gamesUR US Summit 2013
- #gamesUR US Summit 2012
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- #gamesUR US Summit 2010
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#GamesUR Summit 2022 Keynote - Melissa Boone
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How to Communicate with 41+ Dev Studios - Maria Amirkhanyan & Ekaterina Lisovskaia
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A Games User Researcher’s Toolkit - Gareth Lloyd
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COVID Realities from the GamesUR Salary Survey - Seb Long
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Presence in Practice: Affinity vs Contrast in Video Game UX - Ahmed Salama
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Ladders in Games User Research: A Flexible Framework to Unify Stakeholders - Bill Hardin
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The Ethics of Our Art: Research Ethics and the Games User Experience | Ann Johnson and Lisa Rigtrup
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LITE: Not Quite RITE - Jonathan Ehrich
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How Do We Run Remote Research With Kids Who Are So Over Zoom? - Carissa Kang
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Flighting & UR: A retrospective from Age of Empires IV - Todd Kelley & Savannah Harrison
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Designer-inspired Maturity Framework for Sustainable Game Design Experiences - Nandhini Giri
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How to playtest Dead by Daylight: an exploratory approach - Émilie Paquin
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Industry-academic partnership to train next generation GURs - Ahmed Ghoneim and Pejman Mirza-Babaei
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GUR Salary Survey 2022
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IGDA GRUX SIG Chair Update 2022
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#gamesUR 2021 - Keynote Plenary Panel
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A reseachers' guide to teaching players (without more tutorials) | Sebastian Long
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Thinking outside the lab: case study of a mobile AR game - Minecraft Earth | Olga Zielinska
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Accessibility User Research in The Last of Us 2 | Kevin Keeker
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Hold on to your Butts: A debate on teaching teams to do research | Ian Livingston & Tom Lorusso
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Forest Fires: A Usability Post-Mortem of Root | Joshua Yearsley
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Why doing the boring stuff you think is not your job, really is your job | Emma Varjo
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Academic-Industry partnerships for positive change in GUR | Pejman Mirza-Babaei and Samantha Stahlke
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Climbing mountains: 10 years in accessibility | Steve Saylor and Ian Hamilton
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A Trait Model and Scale of Game Playing Preferences | Karina Arrambide & Lennart Nacke
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Usability and accessibility pro-tips for games user research lab design | Ashley Brown
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Players are not lab rats! A retrospection on model concerning human experience | Laureline Chiapello
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Borderlands 3 User Research: Old and new approaches in franchise testing | Jonathan Cohen
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Analytics in Game Development | Andrei Muratov, Kris Havlak & Phil Keck
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Group Therapy For Old Timers | Jonthan Dankoff
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Games User Research Salary Survey 2021 | Dankoff, Long & Menger-Ogle
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IGDA GRUX SIG Update 2021 | James Berg
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Take Control: Building a UR Process at Remedy, Elise Torfs, Remedy - GRUX Online 2021
A How-To-Guide for Muslim Representation in Video Games, Osama Dorias, Warner Brothers - GRUX Online
Developing the Skills of Your UR Team, Deborah Hendersen, Xbox - GRUX Online 2021
Plantopia: the UX challenges of developing an innovative mobile game, Marianne Le Gall, Voodoo
GUR Cafe: What does it mean to be a blended researcher? - GRUX Online 2021
How Xbox supports accessible game design through user research, Anna Waismeyer, Xbox - GRUX Online
How we remotely researched LatAm through COVID-19, for Jogatina Dominoes, Gazeus - GRUX Online 2021
How to design for player persistence, Megan Pusey, Murdoch University - GRUX Online 2021 Microtalk
Crash Course: What is Deaf Accessibility?, Morgan Baker, The Odd Gentlemen - GRUX Online 2021
Understanding Players: Value of Social Media, Simone Kriglstein, Masaryk Uni - GRUX Online Microtalk
Accessible Horror: Everyone is Entitled to One Good Scare - GRUX Online
8 Ways To Bring Research Strategy To Your Research Organisation, Sarah Romoslawski -GRUX Online 2021
Hexbin Maps as a Tool in GUR, Guenter Wallner, Johannes Kepler Uni - GRUX Online 2021 Microtalk
What I learned about Games UX from building an arcade cabinet, Izzan Bacharrudin Soedarsono - GRUX
What does your future games user research employer want you to do? Raphaël Leroy - GRUX Online 2021
How to get into games UX? - Panel session at GRUX Online 2021
How to get games user research experience without a job, Steve Bromley - GRUX Online 2021
I Need More Mana! Cognitive Accessibility Considerations in Digital Card Games, Stacey Jenkins
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Problem-solving strategies and learning in The Witness - Megan Pusey
Increasing Research Impact through Collaborative Studies - Steve Bromley
Play time is over: Running games user research on non-games - Xbox Research
Effective Communication in Chaos: Lessons for Communication System Design in Team Play - Evelyn Tan
10 Checkpoints for Cultural Representation in Games - Udaya Lakshmi
Mind the Gap Between Academia and Games - Josh Rivers, CCP
Eliciting Play Experiences with an Argumentative Qualitative Interview Method - Heidi Rautalahti
Building UX Process from scratch: Experiences of UX at small & mid-sized studios
GRUX 2020 Census - Elizabeth Zelle, Amazon Games
Why Looking At Non-Games UX Makes For Better Games UX - Bernice Wong, Pixelberry Studios
Deep Representation in Tell Me Why - Deborah Hendersen, Microsoft
Do I need Technical Knowledge for a career in UX/UI? - Andreia Gonçalves
QnA with Celia Hodent, Consultant, hosted by Emma Varjo
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Balancing in Rainbow Six Siege (R6)
Design Barriers for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Gamers
MindMaps: Get In Front of Game Design Decisions
Understanding Player Behaviour Through Visualization
Effectively Using Biosensors In Game Testing
Social Experiences In Single Player Puzzle Games
A Heuristic Checklist for VR Design
The Future of E-Sports is the Future of GUR
Interactive Visualization Of Data
Immersion, Flow and Usability in Games
Our Foot's In The Door, Now What? - Panel
Starting In GUR With Only A High School Degree
Chasing Rabbits
GRUX Games User Research Salary Survey
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Kick-Off: #gamesUR US Summit 2019
A Golden Age of Research: A Framework for Advancement
Shaping Wastrels into Proper Citizens: Impacts of UR on We Happy Few
You Play Like a GURL: Perspectives from Female-Identifying Researchers
Narrative Usability Workshop
Games User Research: A World of Warcraft Case Study
Diary of a Playtest Recruiter - You Want Me to do What Now? (And by When?)
Including the User Voice in Algorithm World
What Makes A Great Usability Expert Review? Lessons From My Practice Game Analyses
Ask Us (Almost) Anything So We Can Argue About It
Player Interviews 101: What Questions to Ask and How to Ask Them
Rapport and participant interaction in games user research
Survey Design in the Wild: Lessons to be Learned from Bad Survey Questions
Leveling Up Your Skills as a Student User Researcher: Working with Local Devs and More
Blending UR in the Design Cycle to Maximize Impact
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. UX Research in Pre-Production
Why You Don’t Need an Army to Run Long Term Diary Studies
How to Create a Quality Research Budget and Schedule for You Game Project
A Fireside chat with John & Mike
Games User Research Salary Survey 2019 - Jonathan Dankoff & Seb Long
Games Research and User Experience SIG Chair Update - Ben Lewis-Evans
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The Business of User Research
Lessons on User Research with Gaming Robots
Ghost Recon: Wildlands Analytics Success Stories
Leveraging the Player Life Cycle with Data
UX as a Competence Center for Collaboration: Workshop Methods
Developing a Research Strategy and Budget
Starting a UX revolution (One New Game at a Time)
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Opening Address: GamesUR US Summit 2018
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Keynote: How to Win Friends and Influence Developers
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Your Survey Sucks: Exposing Truths to Mobile Games Dev Teams Through Better Quant
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Context and Game Analytics: Hearthstone and Overwatch Gotchas
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Solving the Mystery Using the Wizard of Oz Method
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Researching League of Legends' Largest Update
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Roundtable: Constructive Conversations about Racism and Sexism
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A Player-centered Look at Spending and Advertising in Mobile Games
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Building Confidence in Topics of Games User Research
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Challenges in the Game Analytics Pipeline
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Experimental Research Showcase
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Player Segmentation: A Practical Mixed Method Approach
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VR Play: Usability and Playability Guidelines for VR Games
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Games User Research Salary Survey 2018
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Games User Research SIG Chair Update 2018
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Appreciation Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Lenses - Massive Entertainment
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All Your Methods Are Belong To Us: Lessons GamesUR Can Learn From ‘Mainstream’ User Research
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A Framework for the Fine-grained Evaluation of the Interactive Narrative Experience
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High Impact Opportunities For User Research With Mobile F2P Games - Rovio
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Ghost Recon: Wildlands Case Study: Looking through the lens of self-determination theory
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The In-House Tools Of A Small Games User Research Team
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Game Analytics for Game User Research
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An Introduction to Sony London’s User Research Team
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Research Sprints for Gaining Trust
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Opening Remarks
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Keynote: Storytelling with Statistics
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Guidelines for Inclusive and Accessible Games
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Qualitative Research: Why We Hired a Tax Researcher to Work on a Baseball Game
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The Anatomy of Gamer Motivations
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GUR Lessons from Mars and the Last Star (DOOM & Battleborn)
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Reducing biases in User Research
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Panel: Breaking into GUR
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How to save the forest when all the trees are on fire
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Testing in VR: Practicalities and considerations
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Accessibility – Your Questions Answered
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Microtalks
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User Research vs. Data Science
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SWaGUR – Training the Next Generation of Games User Researchers
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Debating Return on Investment for Games User Research
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Quantum Break: A Tour of Methods We Used To Test This Rather Odd Product
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Testing Story and Character: Process, Learnings, and Results
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Games User Research SIG Chair Update
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Designing for Gamers with Deafness
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A Methodological Framework for Eye-tracking
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Careers: Forging a Career in #GamesUR
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Diary Studies To Research Long Term Behaviour
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Communicating Research To Teams and Stakeholders
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Playtesting in VR: Takeaways
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Preparing Students to be Game User Researchers
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Lessons Learnt in User Research for Indie Studios
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The Evolution of Insight at Riot Games
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Gesture Methods The New Sign Language
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Gamer Motivation Profile Findings
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Biometrics at Ubisoft Montreal
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Our Subversive Goal in Teaching
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Designing and Building a Research Lab
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Live Test Experience on Rainbow Six Siege
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GURSIG Update
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Fireside Chat PS3 ♥'s Xbox
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How To Easily and Effectively Communicate with Dev Teams
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Crowdsourcing Player Experience Evaluation
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Success Factors as Communication Tools in Mobile
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Open Discussion
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Methods in Telemetry and Research at Volition
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Virtual Reality Open RoundTable
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Assessment of Responses to Narrative in Games
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2.01 Rage Quitting - Schmidlin
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1.03 Panel Education & Training - Greenwood Erickson
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2.03 Panel Recruiting Tactics - Vorlick
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1.04 Review Analysis - Livingston
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1.05 Mobile Diaries - Leroy
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2.05 Forza Skill & Progression - Debeauvais
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1.06 Destiny Combatants - Ash
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2.06 Demo Usability Approach by Academic - Dubbels
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1.07 Panel Destiny GUR - Ash
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1.08 User Profiling - Drachen
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2.08 Demo Usability by UX Consultant - Schklar
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2.09 Demo PlayStation Lab Tour - Tanimura
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1.10 Dragon Age - Berg
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2.10 Panel Lab Spaces & Setups - Greenwood Erickson
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1.11 Closing Update - Tisserand
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1.12 Keynote UX & Developer Collaboration - Celia Hodent
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Methods for Long Term Engagement & Competitor Research
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How Sony is approaching accessibility for disabled gamers
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Building Ubisoft's Games User Research Machine
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Ubisoft’s Narrative Review Process
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From Body Signals to Brainy Player Insights
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Playtesting and Data Analysis in Saints Row
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Welcome to Summoner’s Rift: A look into research at Riot Games
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Pragmatic, Integrated, Scrappy-Fighty: User-Testing @Activision
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Game Analytics: Opening the Black Box
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GUR SIG Steering Committee Chair
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What Went Wrong, and How We Fixed It: A Town Hall Discussion of Common Problems in GUR
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Gua-Le-Ni: The Case for Casual Biometrics
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Cross-Functional Communication through Personas
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Building a GUR lab - A journey from academia to industry
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Consumer research in the video game industry
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Preferences for Chat in Casual Games
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User Research to Support Design of a Mobile-Based Social Dance Game
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Research and testing with profoundly disabled preschool children
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Building Second Screen Controllers for the Big Screen
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Rapid Results
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A Grand Unification for GUR: A graphical framework for methods and measures
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On the Usability of Psycophysiological User research for the Games Industry
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Where is the Fun: Measuring Social Interaction
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CORE Games@Disney User Research: What and Why
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Closing Remarks
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Advancing Game User Research Through R&D: Benefits, Risks and Lessons Learned
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Beyond Thunderdome: Debating the effectiveness of different user-research techniques
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Useful Research: Recommendations Designers will Actually Act on
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Conclusion
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First Impressions Count: Understanding Initial Moments of Gameplay
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How effective am I? A framework for evaluating and improving your ‘User Research Pipeline’
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GUR on Kinnect - Tales from the Trenches
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Mining the Madden Experience: Applying Machine Learning to Telemetry
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Intro (Bill Fulton)
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Weedon Engelbrecht Discussion
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Veronica Zammitto
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Heather Desurvire
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Carla Engelbrecht
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Bill Fulton
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Graham McAllister
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Bruce Phillips
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Bruce Phillips: Discussion
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David Tisserand
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Ben Weedon 1
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Ben Weedon 2
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Dimitri Williams
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