Utrecht Center for Game Research

Games play an increasingly important role in many societal areas by allowing users to practice, play, experiment, research, and learn in a safe and motivating environment.

The Utrecht Center for Game Research performs interdisciplinary research on serious gaming and playful interaction with a focus on the following domains:

  • Games for Learning
  • Games for Health
  • Games for Change 

It is our mission to employ games to help solving large societal challenges. Games are pre-eminently suitable to inform, motivate, appeal to emotion, and influence behavior. Games do that better than other types of media. Learn more about our projects in our magazine

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Spotlight
Picture made during the 2017 ecogames symposium
Environmental impact of games

In the symposium Ecogames: Game Research meets Sustainability, game designers and scholars from a variety of disciplines came together to discuss the impending impacts of climate change and possible ways to counter this.

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Screenshot of the explainimation about Game Research
HU students make Game Research explainimation

HU students Walter Drega, Jens Weidenaar, Eileen Heijs and Sara Moree from the minor Datavisualisation and Infographics have created and animation for the Utrecht Center for Game Research. In the animation it is explained, hence the name "explainimation", what the Utrecht Center for Game Research does and who is involved.

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Magazine Game Research

In October 2017 our new magazine was published. The magazine highlights several research projects of the Utrecht Center for Game Research, and features interviews with affilliated researchers. Click below to read it online!

Magazine

News

Judith Masthoff
16 August 2018
Judith Masthoff appointed Professor of Interaction Technology
How can you create a playlist of songs that will keep everyone in the gym happy?
Close-up van een oog van een jong kind.
6 June 2018
Playing outside is good for your eyes and for your spacial cognition
Children spend too little time playing outside and are staring at screens too much. That not only affects your eyes, but your spacial skills as well.
Meisje met stoepkrijt
1 May 2018
Hip&Co: a games app for chronically ill children and their friends
During a health hackathon, neurobiologist Heidi Lesscher worked on a new app that will stimulate chronically ill children to play more.
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Events

20 - 24
Aug
20 August 2018 09:00 - 24 August 2018 17:00
Summer School “Multidisciplinary Game Research - Between Theory and Practice”
This course provides a multidisciplinary perspective on games, combining research trajectories in analysis and design with insights into applied games.
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