Research Talks

The 2019 UCSC Games Showcase will host a track of presentations about games research from professors and graduate students across campus. The research presentation track is free, open to the public, and co-located with the main game exhibit of the showcase.

See the research talk abstracts page for more info about each one.

Watch the recorded talks on the PlayableUCSC YouTube (sound was off until 10:30).

The talks will be in the Media Theater, 453 Kerr Rd, Santa Cruz, on Saturday, June 8, 2019, 12:15-4:45pm.

Research Presentations Program Chair: Breanna Baltaxe-Admony

Streaming by Colin Wheelock

Session 2 • 1:20-2:20
Session 1 • 12:15-1:10
12:15	Opening Remarks	Breanna Baltaxe-Admony
12:20	Investigating perceptual expertise for video game faces	Jennifer Day
12:40	The Psychological Reality of Procedural Rhetoric	Barrett Anderson
1:00	TownSim: Paving the Roads to a Virtual World	Asiiah Song
1:10	Break
1:20	Different by Design: An Overview of Alternative Controller Games	Eddie Melcer
1:40	Acting as an Interface	Nick Junius
2:00	Chasing play potentials: designing to surface the playfulness in our lives	Ferran Altarriba Bertran
2:20	Break
Session 3 • 2:30-3:30
2:30	Radical Tunes: teaching kanji through a rhythm game	Oleksandra "Saya" Keehl
2:50	Learning to Generate Music with Sentiment	Lucas N. Ferreira
3:10	Titled, "Untitled" - a Compendium of Language Games	Kavi Duvvoori
3:30	Break
Session 4 • 3:40-4:45
3:40	The Unheimlich Nostalgic: Mediation and Memory Within Silent Hill 4: The Room	Ryan Page
4:00	A Framework for Choice Hermeneutics	Cyril Focht
4:20	Casual Creators for AI	Kate Compton
4:40	Closing Remarks	Breanna Baltaxe-Admony