news
- Guest editing a Journal issue on Creative Technologies
- Guest editing a Journal issue on Creative Technologies
- Initiating and directing a new master program on Interactive Media.
- Writing a book on the History of Portuguese Videogames.
- Starting a publishing imprint of eBooks, engagePress.
- Writing a book on the History of Portuguese Videogames.
- Starting a publishing imprint of eBooks, engagePress.
- Writing a column biweekly for the Portuguese version of the magazine Eurogamer.
about online
For the academic curriculum visit DeGois, the Portuguese research database of curricula. You can keep track of Nelson Zagalo through Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Also you can read his Portuguese blogging at Virtual Illusion (if curious use google translate button on the right).
bio profile
Nelson Zagalo is assistant professor at the University of Minho. His main research work has been at the edge meeting points between film studies and entertainment virtual reality developing knowledge on the adaptation of cinematic emotions to virtual environments, employing a multidisciplinar approach and bringing together cognitive psychology, art theory, new media, and computer science. A big share has been dedicated to the emotional expression inside virtual environments within his PhD. He is researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies, co-head of the EngageLab, head of the Portuguese Society for Videogames Sciences and has published the book Interactive
Emotions, from Film to Videogames (2009).