I made a new crochet hat

New hair cut just dropped. From the first couple days it seems it ranged from quirky art student to medieval peasant boy based on where my bangs decide to fall.

I propose we replace reference letters with the most fitting emoji. Perhaps a scale of 👍 to 🤩

Engagement or Distraction? Examining the Impact of Narrative Elements and Player Audience on Experience of Logic Grid Puzzles In this work, we explore different narrative modes for logic grid puzzles. We test these environments with a user study recruiting two audiences: crowd-workers on the Prolific platform and volunteers ...

Today I (virtually) attended the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), to present my work on investigating the impact of narrative on puzzle games. I'm excited for all the future projects will come from this!

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Finally looks back at my notes for #aiide25 and put together my blog post of reflections. Check it out on my blog: fiabot.github.io/Fiona-Shyne/...

My very reluctant runway model

I'm trying to crochet my dog a sweater, but forgot he big for a min pin so now he has a skin tight crop top

Finally things as they should be

Getting some long needed cuddles with my pup after coming back from #aiide25. Thanks to everyone who made AIIDE this year a great experience and giving me lots of inspiration for my future research (p.s. you can expect some emails from me as I now have 100 new research ideas)

The fued between Canada and the US has brought some interesting results. Me and my American companion were both "randomly" selected for special screening at the airport today. Some of the nicest agents I ever met as they scanned through all my worldly possessions

Game researchers: our work should be taken just as seriously as any other field.
Game researchers when given access to a miro board:
#aiide25

I'm at #aiide25 so I just remembered this app exists. So here are some of the local fauna of Edmonton.

My very serious research about making lil dudes

I woke up Tuesday morning to find out I have a masters degree now. I will be making everyone call me Fiona,ms for the foreseeable future.

Anyone else get a masters in a middle of a PhD? How did you celebrate?

No place like home

Returning to Vienna after a great couple of days in Graz at the Foundation of Digital Games conference. I appreciate all the people who make games research an open and accepting environment to be a part of!

Loved seeing you and all the welcoming faces there!

A very sleepy selfie from the beautiful city of Vienna. Looking for the #fdg conference starting tomorrow!

Where do you keep backups usually? I know most cloud sources have privacy concerns.