Design & Development
How might we advance game-making with new design and development insights, methods, tools, and techniques?
Project areas include:
- Integrating the physical and the digital in games
- Co-designing games with players who lack technical expertise
- Designing and understanding the impact of persuasive games
iGGi >>> People <<< relevant to this Theme:
Doruk Balcı
iGGi PG Researcher
Available for placement
Design & Development, Player Research
Toby Best
iGGi PG Researcher
Available for placement
Game AI, Design & Development, Player Research
Steph Carter
iGGi PG Researcher
Available for placement
Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research, Accessibility, Game Data
Dr Tom Cole
iGGi Alum + Supervisor
Game AI, Design & Development
Prof. Richard Bartle
Supervisor
Design & Development, Game AI, Player Research
Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks
Supervisor
Game Audio, Player Research, Design & Development, Applied Games, Accessibility
Dr Guifen Chen
Supervisor
Creative Computing, Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research
Dr Mike Cook
Supervisor
Game AI, Design & Development, Creative Computing
Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir
iGGi PG Researcher
Available for placement
Applied Games, Design & Development, Creative Computing
Dr Terence Broad
iGGi Alum
Creative Computing, Design & Development
Karl Clarke
iGGi PG Researcher
Available for placement
Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research
Prof. Peter Cowling
Supervisor
Game AI, Applied Games, Design & Development
iGGi >>> Publications <<< relevant to this Theme:
POD/Post-anthropocentric design: World Oceans Day 2022
D Barrios-O'Neill, C Jarvis, N Binyamini Ben Meir, C Ramirez-Figueroa
Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir
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Tired and Wired: Sleep Deprivation Prevents Affective Renormalisation During Exposure to Ambiguous Threat
E Sullivan, C McCall, M Croissant, LM Henderson, G Schofield, S Cairney
Sleep Medicine 138, 107678, 2026
Dr Maximilian Croissant
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Player Discretion is Advised: Designing for Rule-Changing Play
D BALCI, J Iacovides, B Kirman
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Beyond the Spotlight: Co-Designing AI for Theatre Audience Communication
A Pedrassoli Chitayat, S Carter, BA Robertson, J Hook
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Dr Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat
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Post-anthropocentric design lab (PADLab).
D Barrios-O'Neill, M Pauzner, O Kutok, O Stadnuk, N Binyamini Ben Meir, ...
Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir
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"SAM"-School Attachment Monitor for the Assessment of Attachment in Children aged 4-8
MJ Saiger, Y Aleid, H Minnis, A Vinciarelli, S Brewster
Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children, 752-756, 2025