Sebastian Deterding

Deliberate designer & empirical philosopher of playful & engaging things. Professor @imperialdyson. Ex-associate @whatsthehubbub. EiC @GamesACM

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

Almost a year in, I've still never been happier with a talk, and still stand by every sentence. https://t.co/ctmOYbflpS

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

@desimonemartin Super-helful context, thanks!

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

I am interested in supervising PhDs on:
- understand player behaviour & wellbeing with data donations
- long-term engagement in behaviour change or games - computational modelling of competence, curiosity, and gambling motivation
- theories of change in HCI
- curiosity in games

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

Come do your PhD with me at Imperial College in London! The LISS DTP funds 3.5y PhD tuition and stipend (+1y masters), deadline Jan 24:

https://t.co/LCe4itkI0o

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

Dormant account, will delete soon. Find me on Bsky as https://t.co/DTuKk7ynHN or Mastodon at @[email protected].

[Dyson School of Design Engineering @ImperialDyson]

🌊 Congratulations to @notpla! 🎉 Founded by our IDE alumni Pierre-Yves Paslier and Rodrigo García González, they have secured £20 million to bring their revolutionary seaweed-based packaging to the US market! 🌿

Read more about their journey: https://t.co/tpd2d73z7y

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

Prescient? Outdated? You be the judge.

#2 in a loose series of liberating old talks from Slideshare:

Ruling the World: When Life Gets Gamed from lift 2012.

Or: How automating social rules creates a Kafkaesque everyday and invites gaming the system.

https://t.co/jJ1lQEZhJP

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

Come join our growing School! @ImperialDyson has two full-time (Senior) Lecturer openings.

Great people, great students, great place, integrating engineering with behavioural research and creative practice to build better futures.

https://t.co/E7sXL5DzYx

[Dyson School of Design Engineering @ImperialDyson]

Join us at the DE10 Hackathon on September 21st to celebrate 10 years of innovation at the Dyson School of Design Engineering with a day of creativity, exciting challenges, great food, and amazing prizes!

🎟️ Spaces are limited, so secure your spot today: https://t.co/XfazQ6qf08

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

We recruit broadly, but selfishly, if you do computational design, computational creativity, behaviour change, computational cognitive modelling – do apply 😁!

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

Come join our growing School! @ImperialDyson has two full-time (Senior) Lecturer openings.

Great people, great students, great place, integrating engineering with behavioural research and creative practice to build better futures.

https://t.co/E7sXL5DzYx

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

For the media class the apex of politics isn’t being a prosperous, socially just, well run country in the North Atlantic.

No, it’s cosplaying being a mid 20th century imperial power. They genuinely all want to be in the West Wing. For them - this is as good as it gets.

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

The issue is based on the first Ethical Games Conference (https://t.co/gxKCvDFhZ6), initiated by the Ethical Games Initiative (https://t.co/wt5kCvTJ6J).

A massive thanks to @CeliaHodent and @francee49 for leading this great effort!

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

It's out! 🎈 🎉

▶️ Ethical Games

the first special issue of @GamesACM:

https://t.co/lZCgYTaLvy

13 excellent articles ranging from digital children's rights to toxicity, games education, microtransactions, responsible AI, and a roundtable on advancing ethics in the industry

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

Previously on this show:

Cap student fees, unis charge cap.

Uncap intl fees, unis chase intl students.

Keep fee cap throughout 39% inflation, unis w/o intls cost-cut or go under.

& at every step: "We're shocked market actors behave like market actors, not public services!"

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

You marketise education, you get market behaviour, vol. 130,455 out of one gajillion: make unis dependent on student fees at volume and students hard to get, unis gonna lower/fudge the entry bars.

https://t.co/IqQWMp61gf

[nolen @itseieio]

I've written a blog that writes this story up, and I've also created my first youtube video (!) to tell the story. I'm trying to figure out if youtube is for me so, uh, let me know.

Thanks so much for reading.

https://t.co/dRU5yWpe0n

https://t.co/XLvN0eTaXp

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

lol who did this

[Sebastian Deterding @dingstweets]

Since Scribd enshittified Slideshare beyond repair, I decided to rescue and resurface some of my oldie-but-I-think-goodie decks to Speakerdeck.

#1 in a loose series: Un-Boring Meetings from Alibis for Interaction'16 – or why meetings bore unavoidably.

https://t.co/5tLkcqdmdY