Ashley ML Guajardo portrait
  • Institutional Review Board Member, Institutional Review Board Member
  • Associate Professor (Lecturer), Division Of Games
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Publications

Presentations

  • Guajardo, A. and Tompkins, J. 2024. “The BookTok to Player Pipeline: TikTok and the Baldur’s Gate 3 Fandom”. Digital Games Research Association Conference. Guadalajara, Mexico. July 1-5, 2024. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/01/2024.
  • Guajardo, A., Feng, N. Controlling the Trolling: Classroom Management Workshop. Digital Games Research Association. Seville, Spain. June 19-23, 2023. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/16/2023.
  • Guajardo, A., Feng, N. League of Learning: A Study of Classroom Intervention Effectiveness. Digital Games Research Association. Seville, Spain. June 19-23, 2023. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/16/2023.
  • Guajardo, A. 2022. ‘It Sucks for Me and it Sucks for Them: The Emotional Labor of Women Twitch Streamers. Submitted to Digital Games Research Association. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 03/01/2022.
  • Guajardo, A.; Hunter, A.; White, P.; Johnson, A. and Rigtrup, L. (2021). Mad Science on Trial. Presentation given to Fan X Salt Lake. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/17/2021.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQlW3jEWOlg&t=962s
  • Usability and Accessibility Heuristics for a Games User Research Lab. Games User Research Summit 2021. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 05/20/2021.
  • Coping with Graduate School during Covid-19, School of Computing, University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Other, 02/12/2021.
  • 5 Things women twitch streamers taught us about community in creative industries/ 5 Cosas Que las Streamers de Twitch Nos Enseñaron Sobre la Comunidad en las Industrias Creativas . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/17/2020.
    https://www.uninorte.edu.co/web/educacion-continua...
  • Brown, A. and Olson, G. (2020). ‘Why Developers Should Twitch Stream.’ Invited talk given to the Salt Lake chapter of the International Game Developer’s Association. EAE, Salt Lake City, 13 February 2020. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/13/2020.
  • Brown, A. ‘Accessibility Concerns When Building a User Research Lab’, extended abstract given to Games User Research Summit, Ubisoft Campus, Montreal, Canada, June 2020. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 01/08/2020.
  • Brown, A. (2019). ‘Are Your Kids Paper Prototyping? What You Need to Know to Keep them Safe.” Invited Paper Prototyping Workshop, Educational Summit. IndieCade, Santa Monica, California. 9-13 October 2019. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/09/2019.
  • ‘Teaching with Twitch’ workshop given to Digital Games Research Association Conference, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, August 6-10 2019. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/07/2019.
  • Brown, A. 'The Unintended Consequences of Using Twitch as a University Professor’, extended abstract given to Digital Games Research Association Conference, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, August 6-10 2019. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/06/2019.
  • 'Teaching with Twitch’ workshop given to Digital Games Research Association Conference, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, August 6-10 2019. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/06/2019.

Research Groups

  • TIER Rite, Research Professor. Nursing. 09/01/2017 - present.

Software Titles

  • Gaymer Night Pride Parade in VR. As part of the University of Utah's campus wide Pride Week celebrations, we developed a virtual world in VRChat. vrchat://launch?id=wrld_7422bd28-d69d-4eff-8660-7f7d0c5c554d:0. Release Date: 03/29/2021. Inventors: Brown, Ashley; Bayles, Greg; Kapral, Aaron.
  • Affordable Care Act(ion). 2020. ‘Affordable Care Act(ion)’ Global Game Jam Game. January 31- February 2. Available for download here: https://globalgamejam.org/2020/games/affordable-care-action-2 . Release Date: 01/31/2020. Inventors: Bown, R.; Brown, A.; Olson, G.; Ownby, JP; Salisbury, B.; Shen, C.
  • Fartress of Solitude. Brown, A. and Olson, G. 2019. Fartress of Solitude. Global Game Jam Game. https://globalgamejam.org/2019/games/fartress-solitude . Release Date: 01/24/2019. Inventors: Brown, A. and Olson, G.