On 16 January 2024, a special PhD presentation took place as a part of the ongoing open learning space organised by the master’s programme Game Studies and Engineering. Ria Sommer MA from the University of Osnabrück presented her ongoing research on Actual Play and Let’s Play practices. The event was moderated by Dr Felix Schniz […]
On January 8th, 2025, the 14th Video Browser Showdown (VBS) took place at the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM2025), in Nara, Japan. 17 international teams competed against each other over about five hours and solved very challenging tasks. VBS is the largest international video retrieval competition and teams had to perform search in a […]
On 14 January, Dr Felix Schniz and GSE Student Peter Miklautz organised the “Magic Academy.” The event took place in the library’s Unruhezone and introduced GSE and other students to the concept of Trading Card Games. It served as an introductory event for a series of follow-up “Magic Academies”, which are scheduled for the end […]
A remarkable display of game development talent unfolded at the University of Klagenfurt as 64 participants created 16 unique games during the intensive Klagenfurt GSE Jam, held December 13-15, 2024. The event, which welcomed in-person and online participants, challenged developers to create games around the theme “Final Countdown,” resulting in an impressive array of interpretations. […]
Local game developers and researchers gathered for the inaugural Game Creators Barcamp on Friday, December 6th, at the University of Klagenfurt. The event featured discussions on game development, educational technologies, and industry funding opportunities. The first Barcamp drew a small but engaged group of participants who explored various game design and development topics. Discussions covered […]
Calling all game enthusiasts! Whether you’re into game development, game design, game studies, or anything in between, join us for the Game Creators Barcamp. When: December 6th, 2024 from 13:15 to 16:00 Where: HS 4, Klagenfurt University A Barcamp is an open, participant-driven event. There’s no pre-set schedule—you create the content! Attendees can sign up […]
Magdalena participated in the “Game Over?”- Conference from November 14th to 16th with its topic “Dystopia x Utopia x Video Games.” Together with Iris van der Horst (MEd), she presented the talk titled “From Oppression to Liberation: Postcolonial Perspectives on the Dystopian World of Xenoblade Chronicles 3” focused on how the game displays a critical […]
Authors: Narges Mehran, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Samira Afzal, Radu Prodan, Frank Pallas and Peter Dorfinger Event: The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/ Abstract: The popularity of asynchronous data exchange patterns has recently increased, as evidenced by an Alibaba trace analysis showing that 23% of the communication between microservices uses this method. Such workloads […]
Scalable Per-Title Encoding – US Patent [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Abstract: A scalable per-title encoding technique may include detecting scene cuts in an input video received by an encoding network or system, generating segments of the input video, performing per-title encoding of a segment of the input video, training […]
Radu Prodan is invited to give a keynote talk at the 21st EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MobiQuitous 2024), which will be held from November 12-14,2024, in Oslo, Norway. Abstract: The presentation starts by reviewing the convergence of two historically disconnected AI branches: symbolic AI of explicit deductive reasoning owning mathematical rigor […]