Perttu Hämäläinen
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Researching and building games/VR/XR/HCI/AI. Assoc. Prof. @AaltoUniversity. Advisor @valomotion, @HypeHypeInc. Student of human movement (dance,🧗♂️,🤸♂️,🥋…)
Joined April 2011
My first "fanboy" game research paper (CHI 2025)! I'm a huge Dark Souls and Elden Ring fan and in this paper, we study how DS players discuss depression on Reddit. I developed the AI-assistance part of the analysis process.
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RT @DavidMelhart: Can AI really predict how engaged you are while gaming? We put #GPT and #LLaVA to the test with 80 minutes of FPS gamepla….
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RT @alphachar: If you know anyone interested in learning about writing for games, I'm running another course at the @IrishWritersCtr after….
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In this 4-week online course, learn to work with and publish Twine games and understand the role of a game writer in the industry. Starts 15 January 2025
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Outrageous! I’m not following JD Vance but I still get bloody push notifications about his random posts. The same happened before with Elon’s posts, until I blocked him. And the X premium pushing is plain desperate. Good riddance X, the vibe is so much better on BlueSky.
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RT @esjesjesj: Cards against humanity’s website explaining why they’re suing Elon is pretty fucking good
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I’ve been developing and publishing AI-based game testing tools, but I’m not super excited about the topic anymore. Game testing is a common way into the games industry and I’d rather not contribute to the collapse of the talent pipeline.
In recent conversations I'm seeing signs of the collapse of the talent pipeline I discuss in my book. Mid-level people would rather use AI for first drafts than interns. And interns are using AI to do the first draft work. Learning is threatened. Book:
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A useful prompt engineering course implemented as Python notebooks
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Anthropic's educational courses. Contribute to anthropics/courses development by creating an account on GitHub.
Anthropic just released new interactive prompt engineering courses. 9-course links & academic papers. Here's the link + a summary of each:. #1 → basic prompt structure
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Happy to play a minor part in this VR user simulation paper. Most of the work done by Florian Fischer and Aleksi Ikkala (neither of which seems to be active on this dying platform…).
🥽Upcoming at #UIST2024: "SIM2VR: Towards Automated Biomechanical Testing in VR". SIM2VR enables running biomechanical user simulations DIRECTLY in Unity ➡️ Predict users' movement, muscle effort, performance. PDF+code . @FCAI_fi @AaltoUniversity
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RT @khornbaek: We are looking for new colleagues at my department, including in #HCI (of any topic and kind). Please repost and get in touc….
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RT @gamesnowaaltofi: GN! Exhibition Week (28th May - 6th June 2024) is showcasing 6 games from our 2 game jams of this academic year! Join….
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RT @valomotion: 💥 Remember the viral Climball game? Now, get ready for 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬! 🏆🧗 Dynamic gameplay, fixed duration, perfect for c….
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RT @elisamekler: Pre-print’s finally out:.SDT and HCI Games Research: Unfulfilled Promises and Unquestioned Paradigms. I hope you find the….
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Self-determination theory (SDT), a psychological theory of human motivation, is a prominent paradigm in human-computer interaction (HCI) research on games. However, our prior literature review...
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RT @JoIacovides: Want a chance to win a £50 voucher by playing video games after work? Then take part in @jonwmella's study exploring how g….
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Calling all digital game players!
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