contacts

FUGA CONTACTS


Matias Kivikangas, Christoph Klimmt, Marko Turpeinen and Craig Lindley in the kick-off meeting in Helsinki.

FUGA team (in alphabetical order)		Role in the project

	Miriam Dyck UKA Team Member mdyck[[at]]ukaachen.de	Miriam Dyck has a psychological background and is a PhD candidate at UKA. Her main interest is the investigation of brain-behaviour correlates of virtual social interaction. In FUGA she will assist with the execution of the different fMRI experiments.

	Dorothée Hefner HMTH/IJK Team Member forename.surname@ijk.hmt-hannover.de	Dorothée Hefner is researcher at partner HMTH. She is responsible for various tasks on enjoyment theory, experimental implementation, research ethics, and project management.

	Wouter van den Hoogen TUE Team Member w.m.v.d.hoogen@tue.nl	Dr. Wouter van den Hoogen has a background in building technology, environmental psychology and social cognition. He works as a post doc researcher at TU/e. Within FUGA, the Eindhoven team is responsible for constructing the game experience questionnaire and investigating behavioural indicators of the game experience.

	Wijnand IJsselsteijn TUE Team Leader w.a.ijsselsteijn[[at]]tue.nl [homepage]	Dr. Wijnand IJsselsteijn has a background in artificial intelligence and neuropsychology and a PhD in media psychology. He is team leader for TU/e in FUGA where the Eindhoven team is responsible for constructing the game experience questionnaire and investigating behavioural indicators of game experience. Eindhoven is leading WP6 "Reliability studies".

	Simo Järvelä CKIR Team Member sjarvela[[at]]hse.fi	Simo Järvelä is an undergraduate student in cognitive science at the University of Helsinki and the Usability School, and a research assistant at CKIR. He is mainly responsible for conducting the psychophysiological experiments.

	Kari Kallinen CKIR Team Member forename.surname@hse.fi	Dr. Kari Kallinen is a researcher and project manager at CKIR. In fuga, he will participate in psychophysiological experiments on game enjoyment and presence.

	Matias Kivikangas CKIR Team Member forename.surname@hse.fi	MA (Psych.) Matias Kivikangas is a researcher and a PhD candidate at CKIR. He is in charge for the practical execution of the psychophysiological experiments in WPs 5, 6, and 7. His main interest in the project is the use of psychophysiological methods to assess game quality. He also maintains this website.

	Christoph Klimmt HMTH/IJK Team Leader forename.surname@ijk.hmt-hannover.de [homepage]	Christoph Klimmt co-directs partner HMTH’s research within FUGA. He oversees daily project management and implementation of implicit measures of video game enjoyment.

	Yvonne de Kort TUE Team Member Y.A.W.d.Kort[[at]]tm.tue.nl [homepage]	Dr. Yvonne de Kort is an environmental psychologist at Eindhoven University of Technology. Within the FUGA project, the Eindhoven team is responsible for constructing the game experience questionnaire and investigating behavioural indicators of game experience. Eindhoven is leading WP6 "Reliability studies".

	Ilkka Kosunen TKK/HIIT Team Member forename.surname@hiit.fi	Ilkka Kosunen is a research assistant at HIIT Digital Content Communities (DCC) research group. In Fuga he will be designing and implementing the emotionally adaptive game.

	Kai Kuikkaniemi TKK/HIIT Team Member forename.surname@hiit.fi	MSc. (Industrial Engineering and Management) Kai Kuikkaniemi is a researcher at HIIT Digital Content Communities (DCC) research group. In Fuga he will be supporting Kai Huotari in the project administration and is actively involved in the design and development of the emotionally adaptive game.

	Susanne Leiberg UKA Team Member sleiberg[[at]]ukaachen.de	Dr. Susanne Leiberg is a post-doctoral fellow at UKA. Her focus is on the neural bases of empathy and social interactions as assessed by fMRI and MEG. In FUGA, her main interest is in using video games to study the antecedents and modulating factors of empathy and prosocial behaviour in a more ecologically valid way.

	Craig Lindley HGO/BTH Team Leader forename.surname@bth.se	Prof. Craig Lindley is Professor of Game Development at Gotland University College and Guest Professor of Digital Games at Blekinge Technical College. His primary research interest in the project is the integration of psychophysiological theory with cognitive theories of game play to account for diverse experiental modes.

	Marja-Leena Markkula TKK/HIIT Team Member forename.surname@hiit.fi	Marja-Leena Markkula is working as the new Administrative Manager of the Fuga project, as well as in other EU projects HIIT is coordinating. TKK/HIIT and CKIR share the coordination tasks in the project. Marja-Leena is responsible for the administrative coordination (WP1).

	Klaus Mathiak UKA Team Leader kMathiak[[at]]ukaachen.de [homepage]	Klaus Mathiak is psychiatrist and specialist for the imaging of brain function. The fMRI data acquisition within the FUGA project is his task in cooperation with René Weber. He wants to understand how the brain can handle complex social interactions such as observed in video games.

	Lennart Nacke HGO/BTH Team Member forename.surname@bth.se	Dipl.-Ing. (Computational Visualistics) Lennart Nacke is a game design researcher and a PhD student in Digital Games at the Blekinge Technical College and Gotland University College, Sweden. His main responsibilities in FUGA include the development of stimuli game modifications and an emotionally adaptive game.

	Pilar López Project Officer European Commission-DG RESEARCH forename.surname@cec.eu.int	Pilar López from the European Commission's DG Research is responsible for the set of Measuring the Impossible projects (including FUGA), a NEST (New and Emerging Science and Technology) initiative.

	Karolien Poels TUE Team Member k.poels[[at]]tue.nl	Dr. Karolien Poels has a background in communication sciences with a specialization in emotions and advertising. She works as a post doc researcher at TUE. Within FUGA, the Eindhoven team is responsible for constructing the game experience questionnaire and investigating behavioural indicators of game experience.

	Niklas Ravaja CKIR FUGA Principal Coordinator forename.surname@hse.fi	Dr. Niklas Ravaja acts as the Coordinator and Lead Principal Investigator of the FUGA project. He is the chair of the project management committee and the leader of WP3 "Planning and Preparation of Empirical Studies" and WP5 "Construct Validity Studies." His primary research focus in the project is the measurement of gaming experience using psychophysiological methods.

	Timo Saari CKIR Team Member forename.surname@hse.fi	Professor Timo Saari is Affiliate Research Professor at CKIR in Helsinki School of Economics and Affiliate Senior Research Scientist at HIIT. Dr. Saari will participate in the FUGA project by consulting on the psychological experiments and the design of the emotionally adaptive game prototype.

	Mikko Salminen CKIR Team Member forename.surname@hse.fi	MA (Cog. Sci.) Mikko Salminen is a researcher and a PhD candidate at CKIR. He assists with the psychophysiological experiments.

	Charlotte Sennersten HGO/BTH Team Member forename.surname@bth.se	MA (Cog. Sci.) Charlotte Sennersten is a PhD student in Game Development at the Blekinge Technical College and Gotland University College, Sweden. Her main responsibilities in FUGA are participating in theoretical studies, conducting emperical studies with emphasis on the use of eyetracking in WPs 5, 6 and 7, and dissemination of results.

	Marko Turpeinen TKK/HIIT Team Leader forename.surname@hiit.fi	Professor Turpeinen is the leader of the Digital Content Communities research group at HIIT. In FUGA project he is involved in management of research tasks conducted by HIIT, and in the design and evaluation of the emotionally adaptive game (WP4).

	Peter Vorderer HMTH/IJK Team Leader forename.surname@ijk.hmt-hannover.de [homepage]	Peter Vorderer co-directs partner HMTH's research within FUGA. His expertise is in entertainment research and specifically in video game research.

	René Weber UKA/UCSB Team Leader [forename+]w@comm.ucsb.edu [homepage]	Dr.rer.nat. René Weber co-directs UKA's research within FUGA. His expertise is in effects of new media, methods/statistics, and neurophysiological media research. He is also Assistant Professor of Communication at University of California Santa Barbara and Adjunct Professor of Communication and Radiology at Michigan State University, USA.