Seriously, though, whoever writes the first half-decent textbook on synthetic research has it made, like, Creswell-level.

But that’s Sage’s business model, no?
Tell me you ha e a captive audience of 500 freshers in your intro class for the next 20 years and here’s your contract.

Also, would it surprise you to learn that I’m really dissatisfied with all the research method textbooks out there and am considering …

4/2
- Understanding audiovisual rewards (juicy feedback / reward cues) across games and gambling

3/2 🤷‍♂️😀
- Automatic novelty/diversity testing of game and other content
- Dynamic difficulty balancing using learning progress, empowerment, or similar formalisms
- Trialling Vision Language Models for automatic game level testing

- theories of change in HCI
- designing for curiosity
- using procedural content generation for systematic stimulus variation in meta-studies or psychological optimisation
2/2

I am particularly interested in supervising PhDs on:
- studying behaviour & wellbeing effects in games and gambling with digital data donations
- computational modelling of competence, curiosity, and uncertainty-related motivation in games and gambling
1/2

To amend that thesis on Feuerbach, Design Researchers have hitherto only imagined the world in more desirable ways; the point is to change it.

Berserk by Kentaro Mura. Maybe more gruesome than horrific, but there is a Hellraiser-kind of pile up of gruesome that can flip horrific or comedic or both depending on your mood. Committed to a single note like The Crow.

James Wallis‘ Mark of Damnation? Warhammer Fantasy, so you know the world, but latter parts with the hero at his low point gave me some nice Simplicissimus/30y war vibes.

Curious: which debate is this sub-skeeting? I sense something about RMG (and am interested b/c we are doing some research on that atm), but clearly I’m out of the loop.

Really, we are doing collective €$£hundreds-of-billions market development for AI companies with unclear-to-zero returns while foregoing investment alternatives with certain returns. Every recent tech hype has been like this: hype outsources market dev to the customer.

Frankly? Less dangerous than talk of a „vanguard“ or „this dude Blanqui actually had some sensible ideas“…