Sultan Alharthi
Visiting Ph.D Student, Planning Interfaces
Sultan is a Ph.D. student at New Mexico State University, USA, under the supervision of Dr. Zachary O. Toups and Dr. Igor Dolgov. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from California Lutheran University. His main interests include serious games for training, augmented and virtual reality games, wearable computers, and idle games. His thesis centers around applying Activity Theory to analyze Urban Search & Rescue teams’ planning and sensemaking practices to inform the design of training games. He worked for several years as a lecturer in the Department of Information Systems in the College of Computer Science at Jeddah University, Saudi Arabia.
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Year 2021
Investigating the effects of individual cognitive styles on collaborative gameplay
Sultan Alharthi, George Raptis, Christina Katsini, Igor Dolgov, Lennart Nacke, and Phoebe Toups. 2021. Investigating the effects of individual cognitive styles on collaborative gameplay. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 28, 4: 1-49. New York, NY, USA. ACM. doi:10.1145/3445792
Year 2019
" It Started as a Joke" On the Design of Idle Game
Katta Spiel, Sultan Alharthi, Andrew Cen, Jessica Hammer, Lennart Nacke, Phoebe Toups, and Tess Tanenbaum. 2019. " It Started as a Joke" On the Design of Idle Game. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. 495-508. doi:10.1145/3311350.3347180
Do Cognitive Styles Influence Collective Sensemaking in Distributed Multiplayer Games?
Sultan Alharthi, George Raptis, Christina Katsini, Igor Dolgov, Lennart Nacke, and Phoebe Toups. 2019. Do Cognitive Styles Influence Collective Sensemaking in Distributed Multiplayer Games?. In Proceedings of the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference Series. ACM. Online: https://ci.acm.org/2019/assets/proceedings/CI_2019_paper_35.pdf
Year 2018
Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games
Sultan Alharthi, Ruth Castillo, Ahmed Khalaf, Phoebe Toups, Igor Dolgov, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games. In Proceeding of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2018. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, 314. doi:10.1145/3173574.3173888
Practical Insights into the Design of Future Disaster Response Training Simulations
Sultan Alharthi, Nicolas LaLone, Ahmed Khalaf, Ruth Castillo, Lennart Nacke, Igor Dolgov, and Phoebe Toups. 2018. Practical Insights into the Design of Future Disaster Response Training Simulations. In 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018). Rochester, NY, USA.
Toward Understanding the Effects of Cognitive Styles on Collaboration in Multiplayer Games
Sultan Alharthi, George Raptis, Christina Katsini, Igor Dolgov, Lennart Nacke, and Phoebe Toups. 2018. Toward Understanding the Effects of Cognitive Styles on Collaboration in Multiplayer Games. In Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - CSCW '18. Jersey City, NJ, USA. ACM, 169-172. doi:10.1145/3272973.3274047