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- What is Games User Research?
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The Business of User Research
Lessons on User Research with Gaming Robots
Ghost Recon: Wildlands Analytics Success Stories
Leveraging the Player Life Cycle with Data
UX as a Competence Center for Collaboration: Workshop Methods
Developing a Research Strategy and Budget
Starting a UX revolution (One New Game at a Time)
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Opening Address: GamesUR US Summit 2018
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Keynote: How to Win Friends and Influence Developers
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Your Survey Sucks: Exposing Truths to Mobile Games Dev Teams Through Better Quant
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Context and Game Analytics: Hearthstone and Overwatch Gotchas
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Solving the Mystery Using the Wizard of Oz Method
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Researching League of Legends' Largest Update
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Roundtable: Constructive Conversations about Racism and Sexism
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A Player-centered Look at Spending and Advertising in Mobile Games
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Building Confidence in Topics of Games User Research
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Challenges in the Game Analytics Pipeline
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Experimental Research Showcase
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Player Segmentation: A Practical Mixed Method Approach
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VR Play: Usability and Playability Guidelines for VR Games
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Games User Research Salary Survey 2018
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Games User Research SIG Chair Update 2018
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Appreciation Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Lenses - Massive Entertainment
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All Your Methods Are Belong To Us: Lessons GamesUR Can Learn From ‘Mainstream’ User Research
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A Framework for the Fine-grained Evaluation of the Interactive Narrative Experience
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High Impact Opportunities For User Research With Mobile F2P Games - Rovio
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Ghost Recon: Wildlands Case Study: Looking through the lens of self-determination theory
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The In-House Tools Of A Small Games User Research Team
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Game Analytics for Game User Research
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An Introduction to Sony London’s User Research Team
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Research Sprints for Gaining Trust
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Opening Remarks
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Keynote: Storytelling with Statistics
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Guidelines for Inclusive and Accessible Games
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Qualitative Research: Why We Hired a Tax Researcher to Work on a Baseball Game
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The Anatomy of Gamer Motivations
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GUR Lessons from Mars and the Last Star (DOOM & Battleborn)
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Reducing biases in User Research
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Panel: Breaking into GUR
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How to save the forest when all the trees are on fire
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Testing in VR: Practicalities and considerations
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Accessibility – Your Questions Answered
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Microtalks
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User Research vs. Data Science
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SWaGUR – Training the Next Generation of Games User Researchers
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Debating Return on Investment for Games User Research
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Quantum Break: A Tour of Methods We Used To Test This Rather Odd Product
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Testing Story and Character: Process, Learnings, and Results
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Games User Research SIG Chair Update
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Designing for Gamers with Deafness
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A Methodological Framework for Eye-tracking
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Careers: Forging a Career in #GamesUR
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Diary Studies To Research Long Term Behaviour
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Communicating Research To Teams and Stakeholders
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Playtesting in VR: Takeaways
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Preparing Students to be Game User Researchers
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Lessons Learnt in User Research for Indie Studios
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The Evolution of Insight at Riot Games
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Gesture Methods The New Sign Language
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Gamer Motivation Profile Findings
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Biometrics at Ubisoft Montreal
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Our Subversive Goal in Teaching
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Designing and Building a Research Lab
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Live Test Experience on Rainbow Six Siege
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GURSIG Update
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Fireside Chat PS3 ♥'s Xbox
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How To Easily and Effectively Communicate with Dev Teams
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Crowdsourcing Player Experience Evaluation
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Success Factors as Communication Tools in Mobile
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Open Discussion
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Methods in Telemetry and Research at Volition
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Virtual Reality Open RoundTable
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Assessment of Responses to Narrative in Games
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2.01 Rage Quitting - Schmidlin
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1.03 Panel Education & Training - Greenwood Erickson
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2.03 Panel Recruiting Tactics - Vorlick
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1.04 Review Analysis - Livingston
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1.05 Mobile Diaries - Leroy
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2.05 Forza Skill & Progression - Debeauvais
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1.06 Destiny Combatants - Ash
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2.06 Demo Usability Approach by Academic - Dubbels
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1.07 Panel Destiny GUR - Ash
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1.08 User Profiling - Drachen
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2.08 Demo Usability by UX Consultant - Schklar
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2.09 Demo PlayStation Lab Tour - Tanimura
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1.10 Dragon Age - Berg
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2.10 Panel Lab Spaces & Setups - Greenwood Erickson
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1.11 Closing Update - Tisserand
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1.12 Keynote UX & Developer Collaboration - Celia Hodent
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Methods for Long Term Engagement & Competitor Research
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How Sony is approaching accessibility for disabled gamers
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Building Ubisoft's Games User Research Machine
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Ubisoft’s Narrative Review Process
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From Body Signals to Brainy Player Insights
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Playtesting and Data Analysis in Saints Row
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Welcome to Summoner’s Rift: A look into research at Riot Games
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Pragmatic, Integrated, Scrappy-Fighty: User-Testing @Activision
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Game Analytics: Opening the Black Box
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GUR SIG Steering Committee Chair
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What Went Wrong, and How We Fixed It: A Town Hall Discussion of Common Problems in GUR
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Gua-Le-Ni: The Case for Casual Biometrics
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Cross-Functional Communication through Personas
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Building a GUR lab - A journey from academia to industry
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Consumer research in the video game industry
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Preferences for Chat in Casual Games
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User Research to Support Design of a Mobile-Based Social Dance Game
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Research and testing with profoundly disabled preschool children
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Building Second Screen Controllers for the Big Screen
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Rapid Results
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A Grand Unification for GUR: A graphical framework for methods and measures
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On the Usability of Psycophysiological User research for the Games Industry
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Where is the Fun: Measuring Social Interaction
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CORE Games@Disney User Research: What and Why
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Closing Remarks
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Advancing Game User Research Through R&D: Benefits, Risks and Lessons Learned
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Beyond Thunderdome: Debating the effectiveness of different user-research techniques
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Useful Research: Recommendations Designers will Actually Act on
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Conclusion
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First Impressions Count: Understanding Initial Moments of Gameplay
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How effective am I? A framework for evaluating and improving your ‘User Research Pipeline’
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GUR on Kinnect - Tales from the Trenches
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Mining the Madden Experience: Applying Machine Learning to Telemetry
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Intro (Bill Fulton)
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Weedon Engelbrecht Discussion
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Veronica Zammitto
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Heather Desurvire
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Carla Engelbrecht
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Bill Fulton
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Graham McAllister
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Bruce Phillips
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Bruce Phillips: Discussion
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David Tisserand
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Ben Weedon 1
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Ben Weedon 2
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Dimitri Williams
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