Welcome

The Game Research Laboratory in the University of Tampere is a top facility for culturally and qualitatively oriented games research and part of a new Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media (previously Hypermedia Laboratory). Both qualitative and quantitative, as well as experimental, design oriented means for examining games and players are being applied into the research, while paying attention to the various cultural, social, and psychological aspects that are important in wider contexts of gaming.

GameLab is also a multidisciplinary research group specializing in games research, formed in the Faculty of Information Sciences. Game Research Lab is constantly developing methodologies as well as building digital and physical research environments as well as designing new tools that are suitable for the study of games, game players and in game design research.

Back to the main page of Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media (INFIM): http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/infim/ .