Johanna Pirker

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Johanna Pirker (* 1988 ) is an Austrian computer scientist with a research focus on computer games , virtual reality and data science .

Life

Johanna Pirker studied Software Development and Business at Graz University of Technology and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2017 she did her doctorate at TU Graz on Immersive and Engaging Forms of Virtual Learning. Together with Maroon , she developed an interactive physics laboratory for use in the classroom. Since 2013 she has been teaching Game Design and Development , Information Search and Retrieval and Social Media Technologies at TU Graz . Her main focus is on the areas of HCI , social network analysis and games user research .

Within the computer game industry, she is best known as the initiator and director of Game Dev Days Graz , Austria's largest conference for game developers, and as a speaker at international conferences such as the GDC . She is also heavily involved in the indie game development scene and game jams .

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • Forbes 30 under 30 Europe , Science & Healthcare (2018)
  • IGDA Women in Games Ambassador, GDC (2017)
  • GOLC Award for Best Visualized Experiment , for Maroon VR (2017)

Publications (selection)

  • Analyzing Player Networks in Destiny
  • An Educational Physics Laboratory in Mobile Versus Room Scale Virtual Reality - A Comparative Study , Online Engineering & Internet of Things (pp. 1029-1043). Springer, Cham
  • PTD: Player Type Design to Foster Engaging and Playful Learning Experiences , International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (pp. 487-498). Springer, Cham
  • How Playstyles Evolve: Progression Analysis and Profiling in Just Cause 2 , 15th International Conference on Entertainment Computing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Game Dev Days: Indie Game Conference in Graz. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Indie Soapbox. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
  3. ^ Introducing Johanna and Seven. October 31, 2017, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  4. ^ TU Graz: Graz researcher is on the Forbes list "30 under 30". January 26, 2018, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Learning with Virtual Reality - Forbes. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 2017 IGDAF TIG Ambassadors. In: IGDA Foundation. February 13, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2019 (American English).
  7. ↑ International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) & Global Online Consortium (GOLC). Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
  8. ^ Johanna Pirker, André Rattinger, Anders Drachen, Rafet Sifa: Analyzing Player Networks in Destiny. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Johanna Pirker, Simone Griesmayr, Anders Drachen, Rafet Sifa: How Playstyles Evolve: Progression Analysis and Profiling in Just Cause 2. Accessed January 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pirker, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1988