TU DUBLIN / SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
The Intelligent Games Lab
A multi-disciplinary research group studying how games can positively shape minds and society.
Welcome! The Intelligent Games Lab @ TU Dublin is a multi-disciplinary research group that explores how to design, develop and evaluate digital and non-digital games that to support learning, understand human behaviour, shape minds and the society. Our focus is on serious games and game-based learning.
Playing game is one of the oldest and more pervasive human activities; games can entertain and teach.
Games are a powerful research tool: observing how people play is a privileged way to gain insights into human behavior, decision-making and social interactions. Members of IGL have expertise in AI, machine learning, game design and cognitive science.
Our current efforts are in STEM education, developing intelligent games to support Logical and Strategical Thinking in primary schools, and evaluating game-based approaches to make education more effective and inclusive and to mitigate the effect of Math Anxiety.
Playing game is one of the oldest and more pervasive human activities; games can entertain and teach.
Games are a powerful research tool: observing how people play is a privileged way to gain insights into human behavior, decision-making and social interactions. Members of IGL have expertise in AI, machine learning, game design and cognitive science.
Our current efforts are in STEM education, developing intelligent games to support Logical and Strategical Thinking in primary schools, and evaluating game-based approaches to make education more effective and inclusive and to mitigate the effect of Math Anxiety.
If you are a primary school in Ireland interested in running the Happy Maths programme in your school, fill the following form
LATEST NEWS
06/09/2023 Four papers by IGL researchers were accepted at GALA 2023, the 12th Conference on Serious Games! Read more...
10/06/2023 Two IGL researchers awarded for business idea at TU Dublin's ivenTUre programme Read more...
05/03/2023. The project Happy Maths has been awarded a national-level SFI Discover grant to support our engagement activities in primary schools for 2023-2024. Read more...
16/01/2023 Do game Reduce maths Anxiety? IGL researchers published the first meta-analysis on the topic. Read more...
10/01/2023 Dr Pierpaolo Dondio has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct the Happy Maths research in the USA! Read more...
05/10/2022 Video by IGL researcher Maira Amaral shortlisted in the Why Research Matters competition. Read more...
01/05/2021. Happy Maths to appear on RTE documentary Game Changers in January 2022. Read more...
03/12/2021. The project Happy Maths has been awarded the SFI Discover fund to support our engagement activities in primary schools! Read more..
01/09/2021. The Irish Research Council to fund the Arithmos project. The project seeks to investigate how digital games can be used to increase the cognitive abilities of primary schools students and reduce their Maths Anxiety. Read more..
05/01/2021. Dr. Pierpaolo Dondio will act as program chair for the GALA 2021 conference. Read more...
20/10/2021. IGL Researchers to take part in the International Junior Researchers Network in Games and Learning . Read more...
01/09/2021. The Code of Kells is back at the European Research Nights. Read more...
01/09/2021. IGL researchers won games competition at ECGBL 2019. Read more...
10/06/2023 Two IGL researchers awarded for business idea at TU Dublin's ivenTUre programme Read more...
05/03/2023. The project Happy Maths has been awarded a national-level SFI Discover grant to support our engagement activities in primary schools for 2023-2024. Read more...
16/01/2023 Do game Reduce maths Anxiety? IGL researchers published the first meta-analysis on the topic. Read more...
10/01/2023 Dr Pierpaolo Dondio has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct the Happy Maths research in the USA! Read more...
05/10/2022 Video by IGL researcher Maira Amaral shortlisted in the Why Research Matters competition. Read more...
01/05/2021. Happy Maths to appear on RTE documentary Game Changers in January 2022. Read more...
03/12/2021. The project Happy Maths has been awarded the SFI Discover fund to support our engagement activities in primary schools! Read more..
01/09/2021. The Irish Research Council to fund the Arithmos project. The project seeks to investigate how digital games can be used to increase the cognitive abilities of primary schools students and reduce their Maths Anxiety. Read more..
05/01/2021. Dr. Pierpaolo Dondio will act as program chair for the GALA 2021 conference. Read more...
20/10/2021. IGL Researchers to take part in the International Junior Researchers Network in Games and Learning . Read more...
01/09/2021. The Code of Kells is back at the European Research Nights. Read more...
01/09/2021. IGL researchers won games competition at ECGBL 2019. Read more...
