Researchers
Naeem Moosajee
Master's Student in Games User Research, Digital Wizard
Naeem Moosajee recently obtained his Bachelors in IT from the UOIT Game Development & Entrepreneurship program. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Computer Science co-supervised by Dr. Mirza-Babaei from UOIT and Dr. Nacke from University of Waterloo, where his focus is on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Games User Research (GUR). This past summer he took part in an internship as a game designer and user researcher working on Book Brawl, a game for the Ubisoft Academia competition. Naeem was selected as one of the 2015 IGDA Scholars where he received an all access pass to GDC, studio tours, VIP Q&A seminars and luncheons. He has always appreciated game design, but he loves conducting experiments testing and improving games- almost like a game scientist! He is also an adrenaline junkie and explorer that enjoys sky/cliff/scuba/anything diving and travelling!
Projects
Publications
Year 2016
Naeem Moosajee and
Pejman Mirza-Babaei. 2016. Games User Research (GUR) for Indie Studios. In
Proceedings of CHI 2016 Extended Abstracts. San Jose, CA. ACM.
doi:10.1145/2851581.2892408 @inproceedings{Moosajee2016,
Abstract = {Playtesting sessions are becoming more integrated in game development cycles. However, playtests are not always feasible or a
ordable for smaller independent game studios, as they require specialized equipment and expertise. Given the recent growth and prevalence of independent developers, there is a need to adapt playtesting processes for indie studios to assist in creating an optimal player experience. Therefore, our research focuses on challenges and opportunities of integrating games user research in the development cycles of independent studios. We worked with three studios conducting playtests on their upcoming titles. In line with the CHI2016 #chi4good spirit this paper contributes to the important topic of adopting user research methods for indie and small game studios. We believe that the games user research (GUR) field must advance towards demographics that will benefit from GUR but are under-represented in the community and this paper is one of the first that will contribute to this.},
Address = {San Jose, CA},
Author = {N. Moosajee and P. Mirza-Babaei},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of chi 2016 extended abstracts},
Doi = {10.1145/2851581.2892408},
File = {::},
Img = {http://hcigames.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gur_indies.jpg},
Keywords = {Games User Research,Playtest,Indie Development,Persona,Rapid Prototyping,Telemetry},
Title = {Games User Research (GUR) for Indie Studios},
Url = {https://hcigames.com/download/games-user-research-for-indie-studios},
Year = {2016},Playtesting sessions are becoming more integrated in game development cycles. However, playtests are not always feasible or a ordable for smaller independent game studios, as they require specialized equipment and expertise. Given the recent growth and prevalence of independent developers, there is a need to adapt playtesting processes for indie studios to assist in creating an optimal player experience. Therefore, our research focuses on challenges and opportunities of integrating games user research in the development cycles of independent studios. We worked with three studios conducting playtests on their upcoming titles. In line with the CHI2016 #chi4good spirit this paper contributes to the important topic of adopting user research methods for indie and small game studios. We believe that the games user research (GUR) field must advance towards demographics that will benefit from GUR but are under-represented in the community and this paper is one of the first that will contribute to this.
