Lecture: How computer games are changing our world

Computer games have long been more than just entertainment. They push graphics chips to their limits, shape the development of artificial intelligence and enable virtual experiments that would hardly be possible in the real world. This lecture shows how computer games drive technical innovation, make complex systems tangible and serve as a field of experimentation for artificial intelligence (AI), virtual worlds and new forms of learning. It will also shed light on why they are changing the way we learn, work and research in the long term.

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Johanna Pirker is a computer scientist and Professor of N-Dimensional User Experiences at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She is also Associate Professor at the Graz University of Technology. She started her career in the games industry as a Quality Assurance Tester at Electronic Arts (EA) and continues to consult studios in the field of user research for games. She was Professor of Media Informatics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich.

• Admission: € 3
• Members have free admission and can bring one accompanying person free of charge.
• Tickets are available from the Monday before the lecture.
• The event will be held in German.