Lennart Nacke

Lennart Nacke, Ph.D., is the director of the HCI Games Group and an associate professor for user experience research and game design at the University of Waterloo. He is a world-leading authority on gamification and user experience in video games, with a special focus on physiological metrics and gameful design. He has authored many research publications on these topics, which have been cited thousands of times. He can be found on Twitter (@acagamic) and is also working as a gamification and user experience consultant with his company MotiviUX. He chaired the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) PLAY 2014 and Gamification 2013 conferences and was the chair of the CHI PLAY steering committee. He is an editor of multiple research journals and was a subcommittee co-chair of the CHI conference. He has served on the steering committee of the International Game Developers Association Special Interest Group on Games User Research and loves the GUR community. His research group writes articles at www.hcigames.com, teaches a heuristics course at gamefuldesign.hcigames.com, publishes videos at youtube.com/hcigames, and they also tweet from @hcigamesgroup. He loves karaoke, chocolate, and beaches, not necessarily in combination.