2022 Schedule for Screen Readers
  • Day 1 - May 19, 2022

    #GamesUR 2022 Summit Day 1 - May 19 All times are EST (Eastern Time)

     

    Track 1

    11:00am Opening ceremony from our Directors Ashley Guajardo and Hannah Murphy

    11:15am-12:00pm Keynote speaker - Melissa Boone

    12:15pm-12:45pm LUNCH!

    1:00pm-1:45pm UX Research Practices and Challenges of Indie Developers (Alena Denisova, Steve Bromley, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, & Jason Della Rocca) - Roundtable

    2:00pm Break

    2:15pm-2:45pm Presence in Practice: Affinity vs. Contrast in Video Game UX (Ahmed Salama)

    3:00pm Break

    3:15pm-3:45pm Poster Session in Gather.town

    4:00pm Break

    4:15pm-5:00pm Gather.town

     

    Track 2

    1:00pm-1:45pm Between Agency and In-house Research: How to Communicate With 41+ Dev Studios (Maria Amirkhanyan, Ekaterina Lisovskaia)

    2:00pm Break

    2:15pm-2:45pm A Games User Researcher’s Toolkit: The benefits and challenges of using external tools and platforms (Gareth Lloyd)

    3:00pm Break

    3:15pm-3:45pm COVID Realities from the GamesUR Salary Survey (Seb Long)

    4:00pm Break

    4:15pm-5:00pm Gather.town

  • Day 2 - May 20, 2022

    #GamesUR 2022 Summit Day 2 - May 20 All times are EST (Eastern Time)

     

    Track 1

    11:00am-11:45am Not just for climbing - Ladders in Games User Research: A Flexible Framework to Unify Stakeholders and Shift from a ‘Game Features’ to ‘Player Needs’ Mindset (Bill Hardin)

    12:00pm-12:45pm LUNCH!

    1:00pm-1:30pm LITE: Not Quite RITE (Jonathan Ehrich)

    1:45pm Break

    2:00pm-2:30pm Flighting & UR: the Perfect Partnership - A retrospective from the development of Age of Empires IV (Todd Kelley & Savannah Harrison)

    2:45pm Break

    3:00pm-3:30pm How to playtest Dead by Daylight: An exploratory approach on a live asymmetrical multiplayer game (Émilie Paquin)

    3:45pm Break

    4:00pm-4:30pm GamesUR Salary Survey Results (Jonathan Dankoff & Andrew Menger-Ogle)

    4:45pm-5:00pm Closing ceremony

    5:15pm Break

    5:30pm-5:45pm Two Bit Circus show!

     

    Track 2

    11:00am-11:45am The Ethics of Our Art: Research Ethics and the Games User Experience (Ann Johnson, Lisa Rigtrup)

    12:00pm-12:45pm LUNCH!

    1:00pm-1:30pm How to run remote research with kids who are so over it (Carissa Kang)

    1:45pm Break

    2:00pm-2:30pm Designer-inspired Maturity Framework for Sustainable Game Design Experiences (Nandhini Giri)

    2:45pm Break

    3:00pm-3:30pm Industry-academic Partnerships to Train the Next Generation of Games User Researchers (Ahmed Ghoneim & Pejman Mirza-Babaei)

    3:45pm Break