Collaborator
Robbie Sieczkowski
Robbie is a PhD student in Informatics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with a focus on Design, Technology and Society. He studies how serious games and immersive technologies are made and how they affect learning, prosocial behavior, and reflection on real-world systems.
He leads production of educational games in the Game Studies and Design program’s student-run studio and contributes to teaching in game studies and cinema production.
Projects
Active projects
VRchaeology
An immersive virtual field school for learning archaeological field methods through excavation, mapping, documentation, and analysis.
Presentations
Conference talk
A panel discussion of the stu/dio: Contributions, Focus Areas, and Challenges in University Student-Driven Game Production
Panel with Daniel Cermak, Robbie Sieczkowski, Sarvin Eshaghi, Sepehr Vaez Afshar, O. Wang, and R. Hidalgo.
Invited talks
Growing XR Development at Illinois: Inside the stu/dio
Presented by Dan Cermak, Robbie Sieczkowski, and Sepehr Vaez Afshar.
Conference talk
A UIUC Game Studies & Design Student Team managing VR game development for education, research, & beyond
Contributors: Robbie Sieczkowski, Sepehr Vaez Afshar, O. Wang, R. Hidalgo, T. Jiang, N. Simons, D. Parikh, and M. Tadepally.
