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Abertay University: Dundee, GB

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University of Abertay Dundee: Dundee, Dundee, GB

2011 to present | Lecturer (School of Design and Informatics)
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Robin Sloan

Education and qualifications (3)

Abertay University: Dundee, GB

2007 to 2011 | PhD
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Robin Sloan

University of Abertay Dundee: Dundee, Dundee, GB

2009 to 2010 | PGCE Higher Education teaching
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Robin Sloan

University of Abertay Dundee: Dundee, Dundee, GB

2001 to 2005 | BA (Hons) Computer Arts
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Funding (4)

SmARtview: An AI-powered Augmented Reality Tool for Animal Health and Productivity

2020-09-30 to 2022-03-30 | Grant
Innovate UK (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9452346
GRANT_NUMBER: 51088
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InGAME International

2020-02-01 to 2023-11-30 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8855928
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/T011491/1
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Living Histories of Sugar in Scotland and the West Indies: Transnationalisms, Performance and Co-creation

2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8469883
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/S01148X/1
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InGAME: Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise

2018-09-30 to 2023-09-29 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.7829283
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/S002871/1
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Right 2 Roam green edition

2025-03-21 | Other
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Contributors: Mona Bozdog; Robin Sloan
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Game jams in the curriculum

MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture
2024-11-19 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Mona Bozdog; Robin Sloan
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‘They didn’t make it home’ - designing for unfairness in right 2 roam

Generation Analog 2024, 24/07/24
2024-07-25 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Mona Bozdog; Robin Sloan
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Editorial

Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
2024-01-30 | Other | Author
DOI: 10.1386/jgvw_00074_2
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Contributors: Hailey J. Austin; Robin Sloan; Graham Johnson
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InGAME international pathway to collaboration

2024-01-11 | Report | Author
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ISBN: 9781899796359
Contributors: Andrea McSwan; Hailey J. Austin; Hayley Brown; Graham Johnson; Beatrix Livesey-Stephens; Lynn H.C. Love; Martin Lynagh; Robin Sloan; Xiong Xiaoxiong
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D-generations

2023-12-01 | Other
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Contributors: Robin Sloan
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Right 2 Roam

2023-11-01 | Other
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Contributors: Mona Bozdog; Robin Sloan
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Navigating China game publishing

2023-02-03 | Other
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Contributors: Hayley Brown; Martin Lynagh; Hailey J. Austin; Graham Johnson; Robin Sloan
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Exploring the opportunities for UK games businesses in China

2023-02-02 | Other
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Hayley Brown; Hailey J. Austin; Martin Lynagh; Graham Johnson; William Kavanagh; Dayna Galloway
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Transnational development cultures

FDG '22
2022-11-04 | Conference paper | Author
DOI: 10.1145/3555858.3555862
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Part of ISBN: 9781450397957
Contributors: Robin Sloan; Martin Lynagh; Hailey J. Austin; Hayley Brown
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Using avatars in investigative interviews with children

SIPR annual report 2021/22
2022-10-31 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Sam Conway; Julie Gawrylowicz; Robin Sloan; Andrea Szymkowiak
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International gaming

Durham University and InGAME International Conference: International Gaming, Durham, United Kingdom, 8/09/22
2022-09-09 | Edited book | Editor
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ISBN: 9781899796335
Contributors: Angelia Wang; Hailey J. Austin; Robin Sloan
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Navigating regulations and restrictions in game design teams

International Gaming: Laws and Regulations Around Games in the Digital Era, Durham, United Kingdom, 8/09/22
2022-09-09 | Conference abstract | Author
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Contributors: Robin Sloan
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Through the shanzhai lens

British Journal of Chinese Studies
2022-08-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.51661/bjocs.v12i2.186
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Contributors: Hailey J. Austin; Robin Sloan
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InGAME international

InGame International Conference, Dundee, United Kingdom, 12/04/22
2022-06 | Edited book | Editor
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ISBN: 9781899796328
Contributors: Hailey J. Austin; Charly Harbord; Robin Sloan
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Humans, Robots, or Avatars? Which do children and young people prefer disclosing forensic information to?

International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iiiRG) Annual Conference 2022, Winchester, United Kingdom, 22/06/22
2022-06-22 | Conference poster | Author
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Contributors: Sam Conway; Julie Gawrylowicz; Robin Sloan; Andrea Szymkowiak
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Intellectual Property protection for video games

InGame International Conference, Dundee, United Kingdom, 12/04/22
2022-04-12 | Conference abstract | Author
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Contributors: Jia Wang; Robin Sloan
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The enemy within

CHI Play '19 Extended Abstracts
2019-10-22 | Conference paper | Author
DOI: 10.1145/3341215.3356988
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Part of ISBN: 9781450368711
Contributors: Robin Sloan; Adrian Saurin
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Virtua Walker ’87

Wandering Games Conference 2019, Bangor, United Kingdom, 10/07/19
2019-07-12 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Paul Robertson; Dayna Galloway
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Designing Sugaropolis

British DiGRA 2018, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom, 14/06/18
2018-06 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Gordon Brown; Marisa Wilson; Emma Bond
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Dundee and Me - interactive piece

2018-06 | Other
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Linsey Mackie; Tabitha Marshall; Axelle L'Hortalle; Eddie Small; Fhionna R. Moore
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Game‐based virtual learning environment for human anatomy teaching

Journal of Anatomy
2018-06 | Other | Author
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12806
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Contributors: Jaime Clarke; Alastair Carr; Justin Dolan; Eddie Pedro; Cailin Watt; Laura Pérez-Pachón; Paul Robertson; Robin Sloan; Flora Gröning
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Who are our students designing for? Ranging perspectives of games related educators

British DiGRA 2018, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom, 14/06/18
2018-06-14 | Conference abstract | Author
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Contributors: Kelly Boudreau; Robin Sloan; Kaye Elling; Ian Sturrock ; Nia Wearn
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Videogame art and object-based storytelling

Gaming and the Arts of Storytelling Symposium, Dundee, United Kingdom, 9/05/18
2018-05-09 | Conference abstract | Author
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Ryan Locke
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Recover

2017 | Other
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Contributors: Eilidh Macleod; Robin Sloan
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Recover: Designing a videogame to assist with recovery from PTSD

CHI Play 2017
2017 | Conference abstract
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Robin Sloan

Virtua Walker ’87: Technostalgia for a walking sim from an alternative past.

International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events 2017
2017 | Conference paper
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Recover

The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15/10/17
2017-10-15 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Eilidh Macleod; Robin Sloan
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Virtua Walker '87

Proceedings of the International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events
2017-02-26 | Conference paper | Author
DOI: 10.1145/3055116.3055126
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Paul Robertson
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Virtua Walker '87

Global Game Jam, Dundee, United Kingdom, 27/01/17
2017-01-27 | Other
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Paul Robertson; Dayna Galloway; Gordon Brown; Sonia Fizek; Grant Clarke
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An impression of home: Player nostalgia and the impulse to explore game worlds

1st International Joint Conference of DiGRA and FDG
2016 | Conference paper
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Robin Sloan

Homesick for the unheimlich: Back to the uncanny future in Alien: Isolation

Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
2016 | Journal article
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Robin Sloan

Nostalgia videogames as playable game criticism

G|A|M|E: The Italian Journal of Game Studies
2016 | Journal article
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Homesick for the unheimlich

Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
2016-12-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1386/jgvw.8.3.211_1
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Nostalgia videogames as playable game criticism

GAME
2016-12-04 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Robin Sloan
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An impression of home

Proceedings of 1st International Joint Conference of DiGRA and FDG
2016-11-30 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Robin Sloan
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Playing popular science

First International Joint Conference of DIGRA and FDG, Dundee, United Kingdom, 1/08/16
2016-08-01 | Artistic output or performance | Author
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Helen Dooley; Erik Gauger; Brian Quinn; Alasdair Rutherford; Adrian Saurin
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Player

Player, Perth, United Kingdom, 1/07/16
2016-07 | Artistic output or performance
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Emilie Reed
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Videogames as remediated memories: Commodified nostalgia and hyperreality in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Gone Home

Games and Culture
2015 | Journal article
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Robin Sloan

Virtual Character Design for Games and Interactive Media

CRC Press/ Taylor Francis
2015 | Book
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Robin Sloan

Videogames as remediated memories

Games and Culture
2015-11-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1177/1555412014565641
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Finding the future

Proceedings of the British HCI Conference 2015, July 13-17, 2015, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
2015-07-13 | Conference paper | Author
DOI: 10.1145/2783446.2783616
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Contributors: Kym Primrose; Robin Sloan; Kenneth Scott-Brown
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The game jam movement

10th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games , Pacific Grove, United States, 22/06/15
2015-06-24 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Ryan Locke; Lynn Parker; Dayna Galloway; Robin Sloan
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Virtual character design for games and interactive media

2015-05-07 | Book | Author
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Contributors: Robin Sloan
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A sweetspot for innovation: Developing games with purpose through student-staff collaboration

VS-Games 2014
2014 | Conference paper
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Robin Sloan

Children's perception of the Uncanny Valley in human-like virtual characters

Computers in Human Behavior
2014 | Journal article
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Robin Sloan

A sweetspot for innovation

VS-Games 2014
2014-09-01 | Conference paper | Author
DOI: 10.1109/VS-Games.2014.7012027
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Contributors: Robin Sloan; Dayna Galloway; Iain Donald
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Children’s perception of uncanny human-like virtual characters

Computers in Human Behavior
2014-07 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.03.073
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Contributors: Angela Tinwell; Robin Sloan
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Playing outside the box: Transformative works and computer games as participatory culture

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
2013 | Journal article
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Robin Sloan

Playing outside the box

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies
2013-11 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Orion Mavridou; Robin Sloan
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