5 Dollar Shake

Last month, Laura traveled all the way to Canada to present our work on enhancing the game stream discovery experience 🔍🎮 at the CHI PLAY conference. Based on an online survey among game spectators, our paper outlines three design goals that could enhance the exploration experience on game streaming platforms such as Twitch. Want to learn more? Do check out our poster and paper below, or send us…

Laura Herrewijn and I had the honour of organising the first E3: Enhancing the Esports Experience workshop at the CHIRA conference in Rome🇮🇹 last week. Inspiring papers and talks, and what a bunch of wonderful people to connect with. (also, what a great city and amazing food!🍕🍝)We’d like to thank all of the authors for their hard work and great talks (alessandro franzò, Minglei Wang, Tomáš Pagáč,…

Real-Time Dashboards to Support eSports Spectating

This must have been my favorite project during my time at academia.

The League of Legends and Counter-strike: Global Offensive dashboards in action! Read on to learn more.

My PhD was funded through multiple (European and smaller) projects, on topics such as Learning Analytics, Digital Humanities, and Unemployment. And they…

Wait. Invoicing has language requirements?

As a freelancer, you kind of have to do and think of everything. My accountant is a great help, but it’s not always easy to ask the right questions. Certainly not when you’ve just made the jump into the world of freelancing (like me).

Invoicing scared me a little. The laws around it are quite strict, invoices MUST contain specific fields and words or they’re just not valid. Sure, if your…

Why #Deepfakes are a good thing

[Also on Medium]

If you should believe the media, Deepfakes equals the end of days. Fake news, fake evidence, this technology will create a world of disbelief, blackmail,… trust goes out the window, we’re all doomed. Period.

The media likes to scare us, as, well, scary stories sell. And for once, it might actually help get the positive message across.There’s a way to use Deepfakes for good, and…

Help us augment live streams of your game! For science!

TL;DR: HCI research group at KU Leuven looking for game studios to provide access to live game logs for 2 Master theses, or even collaborate with our group around data visualisation for streaming research

Every year our HCI research group defines a number of Master thesis topics for Computer Science and Engineering students. Our topics include data visualisation, recommender systems, augmented…

That important part in the PhD dissertation: the acknowledgements (new blog post)

Four point five years. Summarised in 131 pages and 18 scientific publications. That and a new title.

While the new title does sound cool (how else can one be taken seriously when announcing world domination), the biggest result is the little book: the dissertation, in my case, on Learning Dashboards. But while I hope the pages reach the intended audience (the Learning Analytics community), I…

PhD in CS. Release Date: July! #phdlife

It has been a tough 4.5 years, but the end is finally near! Last Tuesday I had my private defence, or “preliminary defence” (or viva for the Brits, I hear). In Belgium, this part is pretty much the scariest moment of your doctoral career: it’s the proper, final, oral exam. Sometimes it is an enjoyable chat where they (4 professors) treat you as peers for the first time, sometimes it’s a…