Pejman Mirza-Babaei is an Associate Professor at Ontario Tech University. He is a co-editor of the Games User Research (2018) book and a co-author of The Game Designer’s Playbook: An Introduction to Game Interaction Design (to be released in Spring 2022). His research and professional work is carried out in collaboration with more than 25 companies spanning different sectors. He currently works at Roblox Insight Lab on various metaverse research projects

Raquel Robinson is a postdoctoral fellow at Ontario Tech University. She obtained her PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in 2022. Her research interests broadly include socially connecting people over a distance using physiological signals. Throughout her PhD, she organized two inaugural workshops on live streaming, the first at FDG in 2018, and the second at CHI in 2019.

Johanna Pirker is an Assistant Professor at TU Graz in Austria, leading the research group Game Lab Graz, and researches games with a focus on AI, HCI, data analysis, and VR technologies. She has lengthy experience in designing, developing, and evaluating games and VR experiences and believes in them as tools to support learning, collaboration, and solving real problems.