Magnus Johansson

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Game Design

Telephone:
+46 18 471 84 26, +46 498 10 84 26
Mobile phone:
+46 70 167 99 45
E-mail:
magnus.johansson@speldesign.uu.se
Visiting address:
Strandgatan 1b (Residenset)
621 57 VISBY
Postal address:
Uppsala universitet, Campus Gotland
62167 Visby

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Biography

Magnus Johansson is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Game design, Uppsala University, Campus Gotland. He received his doctorate in Computer and systems Sciences from Stockholm University in June 2013.

His research interest is often focused on the player, groups of players and the activity of playing games. Previous publications deal with the social aspects of online games such as social norms, player created rules and toxic gaming. Other perspectives that Johansson have studied includes how to create socially believable non-player characters, design and evaluation of games from a usability perspective, and also thoughts on how to design for meaningful learning. Future and ongoing studies and collaborations include a research project funded by the Swedish research council with a focus on how anonymity influences online interaction, and co-arranging workshops discussing “social believability in games”.

Research interests: game studies, usability issues, player experiences, social dimensions of games, how to design for trust/distrust and betrayal, social believeable Non Player Characters, the psychology of gaming

Themes that I have supervised: ethical dilemmas in games, Media studies, Moba games, Social perspectives of games and playing, player characters, and philosophical perspectives on games and playing

Games I play myself: Dungeons and dragons, Rune quest, Dying light 2, Dead Island 2, Far Cry, State of Survival, GTA, Baldur´s Gate 3, to name a few

Magnus Johansson

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