The University of Newcastle's School of Psychology Newsline: Psychology and Computer Games

Friday, 8 February 2019

Psychology and Computer Games

So, Psychologists study computer games as well !

This year, Macquarie University hosted Interactive Entertainment 2019, a satellite conference of the Australasian Computer Science Week. This conference brought together researchers and developers of games and digital entertainment from around Australia. Alex Thorpe, a PhD student from the Schools of Psychology and Engineering at UoN, presented research on the cognitive workload imposition of user interfaces, and the measurement of this imposition. This research focused on the detection response task (DRT) as an online, objective measure of workload in a continuous computer-based task. Alex and his co-authors were fortunate enough to be awarded Best Student Paper for their research.

link to the paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330371784_Assessing_Game_Interface_Workload_and_Usability_A_Cognitive_Science_Perspective

About the School

The School of Psychology is part of the Faculty of Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia. The University is ranked in the top 1% of universities in the world and in the top 13 of universities in Australia (QS World University Rankings, 2017-18; Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017-18).

The School is located at the Callaghan campus near Newcastle, about two hours drive north of Sydney, and the Ourimbah campus, about one hour north of Sydney. The School includes over 30 academic staff, over 800 undergraduate students, over 170 Masters students, and over 50 PhD students.

We have a strong record of research performance in four key research groupings: clinical and health psychology, social and organisational psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. The 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia assessment rated the School’s research as “well above world standard” in the areas of psychology and cognitive science, placing the School in the top third of psychology departments in Australia.

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