Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
RLDM Workshop, June 12th from 9:00am to 1:00pm.
Dargan Auditorium – B101, Trinity Business School, Dublin
RLDM Workshop, June 12th from 9:00am to 1:00pm.
Dargan Auditorium – B101, Trinity Business School, Dublin
Speakers
Kelly Donegan
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Speakers
Marc Guitart-Masip
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Speakers
Lilian Weber
Oxford University, UK
Speakers
Laurence Hunt
Oxford University, UK
Program
Speakers
Mounsif Chetitah
University of Würzburg, Germany
Speakers
Sam Devlin
Workshop description (the nutshell 🌰🐚)
We have all been there. We come up with an exciting scientific question, spend months designing the experiment, selecting the stimuli, controlling for contrasts, titrating visual acuity, counterbalancing the conditions, only for participants to tell us they were bored by the second trial and fall asleep mid-way through the second session. What’s worse, instead of learning the cognitive map that we have so precariously designed, they figured out that responding mostly left and sometimes up gets them some points most of the time... 😥 🤬
In this workshop we will explore ways in which we can employ gamification to design more engaging and more scientifically accurate paradigms as well as challenges posed by gamification. The workshop will bring together a multidisciplinary scientific community with game and UX designers to explore ways in which research can benefit from advances in design principles while maintaining focus on answering critical scientific questions.
In addition to our confirmed speakers, we welcome short talk contributions from you. Submissions are now closed!
What to expect:
Successful case studies using gamified designs
Gamification effects on cognition & brain
UX and game design insights
Tools & methods for gamification
Call for abstracts Closed
Submission deadline: April 30th
Acceptance notification: May 12th
Workshop date: June 12th 2025
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Organizers
Luianta Verra
@luiantaverra.bsky.social
Ingrid Martin
@ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
Ondrej Zika
@ondrejzika.bsky.social
Moderator
Matt Nassar
Questions? Please contact zika [at] mpib-berlin [dot] mpg [dot] de