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Mitchell Loewen

Undergraduate Researcher, Psychology

Mitchell Loewen is a 4th year Knowledge Integration and Psychology Joint Honours student with a Collaborative Design Specialization at the University of Waterloo. Under the supervision of Lennart Nacke and Chris Burris, Mitchell is currently working on his undergraduate Psychology thesis investigating the relationship between the self and avatar creation norms in video games. Mitchell is also very passionate about game design, and is currently working with some fellow undergraduate students to publish a game they designed during Lennart Nacke’s Introduction to Game Design course. In his spare time Mitchell enjoys cooking, playing music, and learning new things.

Projects

SWaGUR: Saskatchewan-Waterloo Games User Research

Developing and Analysing Adaptive, Enjoyable, and Engaging Human-Computer Interfaces

Publications

Year 2020

Article

Me, Myself, and Not-I: Self-Discrepancy Type Predicts Avatar Creation Style

Mitchell Loewen, Christopher Burris, and Lennart Nacke. 2020. Me, Myself, and Not-I: Self-Discrepancy Type Predicts Avatar Creation Style. In Frontiers in physiology 11.

BibTeX Abstract

@article{loewen2021me,
  title={Me, Myself, and Not-I: Self-Discrepancy Type Predicts Avatar Creation Style},
  author={Loewen, Mitchell GH and Burris, Christopher T and Nacke, Lennart E},
  journal={Frontiers in Psychology},
  volume={11},
  pages={1902},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Frontiers}
}