[casual_games] Hey Everyone... Sound Off will ya? ^_^

[Philip Michael Zeman]

Hey everyone.  My name is Philip Zeman.  I joined because I a looking for 
partners to develop games that use brain activity.  I finished a PhD 
recently specializing in engineering signal processing (specifically EEG, 
eye-movement data, and EMG), Neurobiology, and Psychology.  During the 
program, I created a new analysis method that mines EEG data and shows what 
parts of the brain people use to play a game.  It can actually be used to 
show what strategy they might be using the play the game.

I'm looking for game developers who are interested in using 'psychometric' 
inputs to their games such as brain activity, gavanic skin response, heart 
rate, eye-movement/position.  I believe that adding inputs like these to 
video games (strategy, engagement, affect(like/dislike), what is of 
interest/automatic screen panning) can take games to the next level.  I 
would like to build this 'psychometric' interface with a game developer and 
construct classification algorithms to meaningfully map these inputs to 
modify game characteristics in realtime.

If anyone is interested in forming such a collaboration, definitely contact 
me.  Also relevant: I have a product design background (prior to PhD).

Regards,

Phil Zeman


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Philip Michael Zeman B.Eng, Ph.D.
Applied Brain and Vision Sciences Inc.
Brain Function Analysis for Novel Paradigms and Serious Games
Analysis of Pharmaceutical Effects on Brain Function
http://www.abvsciences.com
Latest Brain Research Result:
http://www.spatialbrain.com
Email:   pzeman at alumni.uvic.ca
Phone: +1-250-589-4234
LinkedIn Profile: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/philipmichaelzeman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Murray" <jeff at psychicparrotgames.com>
To: "IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List" <casual_games at igda.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Hey Everyone... Sound Off will ya? ^_^



> Hi! My name is Jeff Murray. I joined this list because I make (and love) 

> games!

>

> After 5+ years of working for Fuel Industries and having the pleasure of 

> working as a game designer on games like Million Dollar Password: 2009 

> Edition for RealArcade, Microsoft Tinker (for Vista Ultimate Extras) and 

> the Microsoft Touch Arcade pack for Win7, I'm now going it alone and my 

> small games company "PsychicParrot Games" here in sunny Ottawa, Canada, is 

> busy working on our first (self-funded) title for iPad and iPhone. 

> Yippeee!

>

> That was all a bit Troy McClure, wasn't it? 

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bps-xbo8wnA ... oh well ... ;)

>

> Cheers!

> Jeff.

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