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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