Dr. Günter Wallner

Biography

Günter Wallner is an Assistant Professor in the Systemic Change Cluster at the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests lie at the intersection of games, user research, data analytics, and information visualization. He particularly focuses on understanding player behavior in games and researching methods to explore and communicate collected data to derive actionable insights for game design and development. His work also involves creating data visualizations to support the analysis of increasingly large-scale player behavioral datasets used in game analytics. Günter actively serves on program committees for conferences related to games, visualization, and human-computer interaction, having been the program chair for CHI PLAY 2019. He has published extensively in international journals and conference proceedings, including CHI, PLAY, FDG, Computers & Graphics, and Entertainment Computing. Günter holds a diploma degree in computer science from the University of Technology, graduating with distinction in 2005, and earned his doctoral degree in natural sciences for his work on hardware accelerated radiosity algorithms from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, also with distinction in 2009. In 2018, he began his role at TU/e, while maintaining a permanent position as Senior Scientist at the Institute of Art & Technology at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and has spoken at various academic conferences regarding his work in games.

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