Overview
Topic status: We're looking for students to study this topic.
Project Summary
The project will involve exploring brain activity during engagement with mobile phone videogames. The project could take one of two forms (depending on the experience and preference of the applicant). Either measuring brain activity during engagement with existing mobile phone games and exploring the patterns of brain activity associated with engagement, OR building a mobile phone game that responds to the brains activity (for example, increasing in difficulty in response to the players concentration levels).
Research activities undertaken during the project:
- Literature Review
- Data collection
- Software Development
- Report Writing
Expected outcomes, applications and/or benefits
- Public promotion of the student’s work in a real world setting.
- Publication opportunities.
- Pathway into Honours.
- Collaboration with existing researchers and HDR students in the Games Research and Interaction Design Lab.
Either:
- Experimental Data and Written report / paper
OR:
- A mobile phone videogame that responds to brain activity in real time
Required student skills/experience
Literature search and writing skills and/or Software design and development.
Duration of project
12 weeks: mid November to late February (flexible)
Number of hours: 20-30 hours per week
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scholarship
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Keywords
- game, mobile phone, brain activity
- Contact
- Contact the supervisor for more information
Dr Daniel Johnson
