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Die Eierlegende Wollmilchsau: The academic who can do everything
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Thoughts about a fun German word. Yes, those exist.
Aug 24, 2025
Jan B. Vornhagen
2 Years ReproducibiliTea Aalto
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Today, 2 years ago we started the ReproducibiliTea chapter Aalto (then AERIS). In this post I want to briefly reminisce over that time, about what I learned, and what tips I…
Mar 6, 2022
Jan B. Vornhagen
My Two Cents on the “Are Games Art”-Debate
Aesthetics
Playing
Recently we presented our paper on the art experience of games at CHI Play ’21. Both in the paper and the video, we point out that the goal of the work was not really to…
Dec 22, 2021
Jan B. Vornhagen
NHST at CHI Play - A few months later
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So earlier this year, April Tyack, Elisa Mekler and I submitted my first ever HCI paper about the state of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) and Questionable…
Nov 2, 2020
Jan B. Vornhagen
Video Games Expertise
Playing
Aesthetics
What makes an expert for video games? Instinctively, I would argue someone who writes about them for a living has a high chance to be an expert. A brief look into any given…
Oct 25, 2020
Jan B. Vornhagen
Comparing Player Experience and Empirical Aesthetic Models…
Research
Aesthetics
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…and why it matters.
Jun 2, 2020
Jan B. Vornhagen
Videogames in Empirical Aeshtetics
Aesthetics
Playing
Research
Videogames are kind of a big deal by now.
Jenkins
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refers to them as “the new lively art”: An art form scrutinized by the established art world but, in fact, the art form…
Mar 22, 2019
Jan B. Vornhagen
How to get a BEST prior from a known effect size
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As I had massive problems finding a clear instruction on how to turn a known effect size into a prior for a BEST
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analysis, I decided to write a short tutorial on how I…
Feb 7, 2019
Jan B. Vornhagen
Hello World
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What would a blog be without it?
…except less cliche?
Jan 17, 2019
Jan B. Vornhagen
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