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. 

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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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Prototype of Autonomous gaze animation for socially interactive virtual humans during multi-party interactions
Game Research Seed Money Projects 2015

In October 2015 the focus area Game Research awarded its first seed money grants to ten interdisciplinary teams with a total budget of €73.000. A year later, the results are diverse and inspiring.

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News

The sleepcare app-dashboard on a smartphone
16 March 2017
Sleepcare app presented at the Cross Media Café
On the 7th of March, Robbert Jan Beun (UU) presented his Sleepcare app at the CMC. His talk was filmed in it's entirety.
8 March 2017
The Virtual Supermarket and DiagnostiGO selected for the Ureka Mega Challenge
The Ureka Mega Challenge is a competition held by the UMC to help promote creative ideas. You can now vote for The Virtual Supermarket and DiagnostiGO
3 March 2017
The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data
Karin van Es and Mirko Tobias Schäfer edited The Datafied Society. It offers a collection of scholarly investigations into computer-aided methods and practices.
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