Professional Service

  • ACM. Role: Reviewer. Reviewer for CHI 2024, 11-16 May, Honolulu, Hawai’i. 12/01/2023 - 02/01/2024
  • Independent Games Festival. Juror for Independent Games Festival (IGF) 2024. 12/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
  • Portuguese Society of Video Games Sciences (SPCV). Role: Member of Scientific Committee. Scientific Committee - 13th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts, 28-30 November, 2023, Aveiro, Portugal. 08/01/2023 - present
  • Uppsala University. Role: Juror. Gotland Game Conference 2023. 05/27/2023 - 05/29/2023
  • CHI. Role: Reviewer. CHIPlay 2023, 10-13 October, Stratford, Canada. 05/01/2023 - 07/31/2024
  • University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. Role: Reviewer. Games Lit 2023, May 10-11, Katowice, Poland. 03/01/2023 - 04/01/2023
  • ACM. Role: Reviewer. Reviewer for journal "ACM Games: Research and Practice". 02/01/2023 - present
  • DiGRA. Role: Reviewer. International Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) 2023, 19-23 June, Sevilla, Spain. 02/01/2023 - 03/31/2024
  • Society for Advancement of the Study of Digital Games (SASDG). Role: Reviewer. Reviewer for 5th Workshop on Tabletop Games @ Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2023, 11-14 April, Lisbon, Portugal. 12/15/2022 - 04/14/2023
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Reviewer for research proposals submitted to SSHRC. 12/15/2022 - 01/15/2023
  • DiGRA España. Role: Member of Program Committee. Member of Program Committee for DiGRAES 2023 - II Congreso DiGRA Spain, April 25-28, 2023. 12/01/2022 - 04/28/2023
  • Independent Games Festival. Juror for Independent Games Festival (IGF) 2023. 12/01/2022 - 01/15/2023
  • Society for Advancement of the Study of Digital Games (SASDG). Role: Reviewer. Reviewer for 4th Workshop on Tabletop Games, September 5-8, 2022, Athens, Greece. 06/01/2022 - 09/08/2022
  • Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). Role: Reviewer. Reviewer for the 2022 International Conference of the Digital Games Research Association, July 7-11, Kraków, Poland. 04/01/2022 - 07/11/2022
  • ITU Copenhagen. Role: Reviewer. Reviewer for Game Analysis Perspectives Conference (GAP), April 20-23, Copenhagen, Denmark. 04/01/2022 - 04/23/2022
  • Independent Games Festival. Role: Juror. Juror for Independent Games Festival (2022). 12/01/2021 - 01/15/2022
  • Sociedad Chilena de las Ciencias de la Computacion (SCCC). Role: Reviewer. Sociedad Chilena de las Ciencias de la Computacion (SCCC) 2021 (40th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Society), 15-19th November, 2021. 10/01/2021 - 11/19/2021
  • ACM. Role: Reviewer. Reviewer for DIS2021, Jun 28-Jul 2. (held online). 04/01/2021 - 07/02/2021
  • Independent Games Festival. Role: Juror. Independent Games Festival (IGF) 2021. 12/01/2020 - 01/31/2021
  • IEEE. Role: Reviewer. IEEE Transactions on Games. 10/2020 - present
  • FDG. Role: Track Chair. Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) Conference 2021. 06/2020 - 08/2021
  • Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW). Role: Reviewer. Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW), 3-7 Feb, 2020, Melbourne, Australia. 11/01/2019 - 02/07/2020
  • Independent Games Festival. Role: Juror. Independent Games Festival (IGF) 2020. 10/31/2019 - 01/31/2020
  • Foundations of Digital Games (FDG). Role: Track Chair (Game Education). Foundations of Digital Games Conference (FDG) 2020, Malta. 10/01/2019 - 09/18/2020
  • Central and Eastern European Game Studies . Role: Program Commitee Member. Central and Eastern European Game Studies (CEEGS), 2018, 11-13 October, Prague. 08/01/2019 - 10/13/2019
  • Immersive Learning Research Network. Role: Program Commitee Member. Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) 2020 Conference, . 06/2019 - 06/2020
  • Interactive Entertainment Conference. Role: Program Committee. The 15th Annual Interactive Entertainment Conference 29th - 31st January 2019. 10/01/2018 - 01/31/2019
  • International Journal of Role-Playing. Role: Reviewer. https://ijrp.subcultures.nl/. 01/01/2018 - present
  • UNESCO. Role: Reviewer. UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development) – Working Paper Series Reviewer. 11/2017 - present
  • Canada Research Chairs. Role: Research Project Reviewer. Research Project Reviewer . 10/2017 - present
  • ACM. Role: Reviewer. Conference Reviewer for ACM CHI Play Conference. 08/01/2017 - present
  • iLRN. Role: Program Committee. Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) 2017, Coimbra, Portugal, June 26-29. Includes reviewing anonymous paper submissions. 10/2016 - 06/2017
  • MindTrek Conference. Reviewed 3 anonymous submissions. 08/2016 - 09/2016
  • Digital Games Research Association. Role: Editor in Chief. Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association (Journal). 05/2016 - present
  • Living Games Conference. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed 2 submissions. 05/2016 - 06/2016
  • MP2016. Role: Program Committee. Morality Play 2016: Workshop on the Design of Games for Moral Engagement. Includes reviewing anonymous paper submissions. 04/2016 - 06/2016
  • CISTI. Role: Program Committee. CISTI Workshops 2016 - 11th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, Gran Canaria, Spain, 15-18 June. Includes reviewing anonymous paper submissions. 03/2016 - 06/2016
  • Extending Play Conference. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed 8 anonymous paper submissions. 03/2016 - 04/2016
  • Digital Games Research Association / Society for the Advancement of the Study of Digital Games. Role: Program Committee. 2016 Joint International Conference DiGRA and FDG, 1-6 August, 2016. Includes reviewing anonymous paper submissions. 02/2016 - 08/2016
  • University of Michigan Press. Role: Book Proposal Reviewer. Review proposal for unannounced title. 02/2016 - 03/2016
  • ACM. Role: Chair. PLAY (curated game exhibition at CHI Play Conference), Oct 16-19 2016. 12/2015 - 10/2016
  • iLRN. Role: Program Committee. Immersive Learning Research Network Conference (iLRN) 2016, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. Includes reviewing anonymous paper submissions. 10/2015 - 07/2016
  • First Person Scholar. Role: Board of Discussants (member). Journal. 01/2014 - 12/2017
  • ETC Press. Role: Editorial Advisory Board. Well Played Journal. 07/2013 - present
  • IndieCade. Role: Juror. International Festival of Independent Games. 03/2012 - present
  • De Gruyter. Role: International Editorial Board. Multimodal Communication (journal). 10/20/2011 - 11/24/2013
  • FDG (Foundations of Digital Games). Role: Reviewer. Paper Reviewer for Fundations of Digital Games Conference. 02/01/2011 - present
  • G|A|M|E: The Italian Journal of Game Studies. Role: Academic Advisory Board (member). G|A|M|E: The Italian Journal of Game Studies. 06/2010 - present
  • SAGE. Role: Editorial Board (member). Games and Culture (journal). Includes reviewing anonymous paper submissions, 2-3/year. 06/2010 - present
  • Game Studies. Role: Board of Reviewers (member). Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Games Research. Includes reviewing anonymous paper submissions, 2-3/year. 01/2010 - present
  • IGI . Role: Editorial Review Board (member). International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations. 11/2008 - 11/2013
  • Canadian Game Studies Organization. Role: Editorial Board (member). Loading... Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Organization. 06/2007 - present

Honors & Awards

  • Fellow. Higher Education Videogame Alliance (HEVGA), 06/2020
  • 3rd place, Game Design Contest for "Abstract Hex Dice". BryceCon, 01/2019
  • Digital Games Research Association Distinguished Scholar. Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), 09/2016
  • Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Leadership in Ethics Education Award (2015-2016). University of Utah, 05/2016

Internal Service

  • MEAE Admissions Committee (Design Track). Member, 11/01/2023 - 04/30/2024. Department service.
  • EAE Curriculum Committee. Chair, 08/2021 - 12/31/2023. Department service.
  • EAE Curriculum Committee. Program Commitee Member, 01/2021 - present. Department service.
  • University of Utah Research Committee (URC). Member, 08/2019 - 07/31/2022. University service.
  • Auxiliary Faculty Appointment Advisory Committee. Chair, 08/2018 - present. Department service.
  • Admissions Committee (Design track). Committee Member, 03/2016 - 02/29/2020. Department service.
  • EAE Lecture Series. Organizer, 01/2016 - 06/30/2023. Department service.
  • EAE Hiring Committee (both regular and ad-hoc). Chair (until Spring 2023), 01/2016 - 05/31/2023. Department service.
  • College of Engineering Curriculum Committee. Member (representative of EAE), 08/2015 - 12/2017. College service.
  • EAE Curriculum Committee. Member, 01/2015 - 07/2016. Department service.

Affiliations

  • Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), Vice President, 08/2013 - 07/31/2015

In the Media

  • Interviewed live on KSL NewsRadio (102.7fm) as part of the "Dave and Dujanovic Show" as an expert on videogames commenting on videogames education. 10/26/2023.
  • Interviewed in New York Times about the forthcoming release of Immortals of Aveum. ("Forget Guns. This First-Person Shooter Only Has Magic"). 08/22/2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/arts/immortals-...
  • Interviewed in New York Times regarding the forthcoming launch of Diablo IV ("Diablo IV Wants Gamers to Slay Monsters in Hell Forever"). 06/05/2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/arts/diablo-iv-...
  • Interviewed in Inverse Magazine (“Is Joel a Good Person? The Complicated Ethics of Last of Us”) . 03/15/2023. https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/the-last-of-...
  • Samsung Display, “What’s Happening in Gaming in 2023?” (Interviewed as expert on gaming for Samsung IT trend column). 01/20/2023. https://global.samsungdisplay.com/31083
  • Interviewed in ETC Magazine (Nr 38, 23 September 2022), “ALLA VINNER – ELLER ALLA FÖRLORAR”. • Swedish print magazine, article is about collaborative games, also available at https://www.etc.se/feature/slipp-konflikterna-med-barnen-haer-aer-spelen-daer-alla-aer-vinnare (paywall). 09/23/2022. https://www.etc.se/feature/slipp-konflikterna-med-...
  • Featured in article on videogames in French Epsilon Magazine. Article title “L´ENQUETE - Jeux vidéo : le piège se referme” (Epsiloon is an Award-winning French popular science print magazine. (“Le magazine d'actualité scientifique qui décrypte le monde et suscite la curiosité”) . 08/2022.
  • Live interview on Fox13 News discussing the phenomenon and popularity of the game "Wordle". 03/07/2022.
  • Invited Guest on Ethics and Video Games Podcast. Title of Episode “Episode 31: How Should Intellectual Property Apply to Video Games? (with Jose Zagal)”. 12/07/2021. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-31-h...
  • Invited guest on Ethics and Videogames Podcast. Topic was "Teaching Ethics and Video Games". 08/03/2021. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/teaching-eth...
  • Research on Role-playing games referred to in "Play it Smart" column in Tabletop Gaming magazine published in the UK. 06/2019.
  • Guest interviewee on BackStory podcast hosted by Alex Roberts (Episode 67). 09/13/2018. https://oneshotpodcast.com/interview-discussion/ba...
  • Appearance in "How Pokémon Go encourages players to get outside and meet other people" published in the Salt Lake Tribune. 11/01/2017.