Manuel said: “Last week I attended GALA Conference 2024 by Serious Games Society in Berlin. it is such a vibrant, open, and interdisciplinary community. I took much inspiration from the talks for our own work at the DigiLab at Universität Graz - in particular, the 3 keynotes by Jan L. Plass (NYU), Eric Klopfer (MIT), and Alessandro Canossa (Royal Danish Academy) were an absolute highlight.
Another personal highlight was the fact that our submitted paper received the Best Paper Award.
In the paper we show the potential of a new method using AI and natural language processing on player reviews to approximate video game effects. Our paper will be out soon.
Huge thanks to the team: Moritz Edlinger, Stefan Huber and Nathalie Scheucher - the foundation of this paper was actually laid by a master thesis at Universität Graz at the Department of Psychology.”