Game on:  Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

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!