Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Head of Media Innovation & Game Research, and contact person: Thomas Bjørner, tbj@create.aau.dk. Phone: 6114 4601.
Co-Directors of the SMILE Lab: Lars Reng and Henrik Schønau Fog, hsf@create.aau.dk. Phone: 9940 2477
Our research is within innovative media experiences and how to develop applied serious games with a purpose e.g. to support learning and communication. We have in our research group affiliated the SMILE lab (The Samsung Media Innovation Lab for Education), which makes it possible to experience the latest technological advances within innovative computational media content.
In Me-Ga we ask research questions such as:
- How can one exploit the captivating properties of games to engage users, students, and gamers by designing, developing, and evaluating transformative and motivating learning environments?
- How to develop new methods in order to evaluate innovative serious games and media experiences in an applied context?
- How can one design and implement interactive stories and story worlds that adapt to the user in real-time?
- How can our collaboration with the film, TV, animation and gaming industry be used to research and develop novel virtual production techniques and real-time production tools for film and TV?
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Collaborations from the last five years
Profiles
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Thomas Bjørner
- The Technical Faculty of IT and Design - Associate Professor
- Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology - Associate Professor
- Section for Media Technology - Campus Copenhagen - Associate Professor
- Media Innovation & Game Research (Me-Ga)
- The Center for Applied Game Research
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Christopher Schinkel Carlsen
- The Technical Faculty of IT and Design - Research assistant
- Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology - Research assistant
- Section for Media Technology - Campus Copenhagen - Research assistant
- Media Innovation & Game Research (Me-Ga)
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Carlos Mauricio Castano Diaz
- The Technical Faculty of IT and Design - Assistant Professor
- Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology - Assistant Professor
- Section for Media Technology - Campus Copenhagen - Assistant Professor
- Media Innovation & Game Research (Me-Ga)
Person: VIP
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myPBL-VRMath: Micro-PBL in Mathematics using Virtual Reality
Søndergaard, B. D., Timcenko, O., Rasmussen, M. G., Christensen, R. B., Davidsen, J. G., Abou-Hayt, I., Vinerean-Bernhoff, M. & Harel, N.
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2024
Project: Research
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Cosiness and wholesomeness. A psychological perspective through the lens of games
08/09/2023 → …
Project: Research
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Research output
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A Dynamic Engagement Model to Provide Ecological Awareness of the Climate Crisis through Video Games
Bjørner, T. & Schoenau-Fog, H., 2024, Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis. op de Beke, L., Raessens, J., Werning, S. & Farca, G. (eds.). Amsterdam University Press, p. 129–144Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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An Engaging Serious Game that Strengthens High School Students’ Understanding of the Periodic Table
Bjørner, T., Blume, N. B., Frederiksen, N. J. D., Hjort, V. S., Mørck, A. F. H. & Petersen, M., 2024, Games and Learning Alliance - 12th International Conference, GALA 2023, Proceedings. Dondio, P., Rocha, M., Brennan, A., Schönbohm, A., de Rosa, F., Koskinen, A. & Bellotti, F. (eds.). Springer Science+Business Media, p. 3-12 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 14475 LNCS).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review
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Decisions We Should Put in the Algorithm: Mapping architects’ attitudes towards computational and AI-powered tools for practice
Pouliou, P., Palamas, G. & Horvath, A-S., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review
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Datasets
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Annotated point clouds of buildings: a segmented dataset of single-family houses
Pouliou, P. (Creator), Horvath, A. (Creator) & Palamas, G. (Creator), Mendeley Data, 9 Nov 2022
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Tell me what you see: An exploratory investigation of visual mental imagery evoked by music
Dahl, S. (Creator), Stella, A. (Creator) & Bjørner, T. (Creator), Sage Journals, 2022
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.6282769, https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Tell_me_what_you_see_An_exploratory_investigation_of_visual_mental_imagery_evoked_by_music/6282769
Dataset
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Tell me what you see: An exploratory investigation of visual mental imagery evoked by music
Dahl, S. (Creator), Stella, A. (Creator) & Bjørner, T. (Creator), Sage Journals, 2022
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.6282769.v1, https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Tell_me_what_you_see_An_exploratory_investigation_of_visual_mental_imagery_evoked_by_music/6282769/1
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Prizes
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Serious Game Competition Award
Petersen, Mads Strømberg (Recipient), Bjørner, Thomas (Recipient), Jakobsen, Gustav Søgaard (Recipient), Hendriksen, Daniel Bredgaard (Recipient) & Hansen, Niklas Lee Skjold (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Research, education and innovation prizes
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Honorable mention (2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces)
Grandi, Jeronimo Gustavo (Recipient), Galvan Debarba, Henrique (Recipient), Bemdt, Iago (Recipient), Nedel, Luciana (Recipient) & Maciel, Anderson (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Conference prizes
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Winner (3D User Interfaces contest)
Grandi, Jeronimo Gustavo (Recipient), Bemdt, Iago (Recipient), Galvan Debarba, Henrique (Recipient), Nedel, Luciana (Recipient) & Maciel, Anderson (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Conference prizes
Activities
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IEEE (External organisation)
Carlos Mauricio Castano Diaz (Member)
18 Jul 2023 → 17 Jul 2024Activity: Memberships › Membership of committees, commissions, boards, councils, associations, organisations, or similar
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Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (External organisation)
Carlos Mauricio Castano Diaz (Member)
18 Jul 2023 → 17 Jul 2024Activity: Memberships › Membership of committees, commissions, boards, councils, associations, organisations, or similar
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Hosting visit from the University of Education, Freiburg
Thomas Bjørner (Other)
26 Jun 2023Activity: Other
Press/Media
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Circadian lighting could help dementia residents...if staff can operate it
05/10/2023
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Nøglen til udvikling af tech-talenter er tættere samarbejde mellem det offentlige og private
22/06/2023 → 23/06/2023
9 Media contributions
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Velkommen til fremtidens filmstudie
30/05/2023 → 01/06/2023
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media