Team – Serious Games – TU Darmstadt

Serious Games Team - Retreat 2019

Our Team

The Serious Games group at TU Darmstadt has been established in Dec 2008, arisen from the Digital Storytelling group at the Center for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt. From 12/2008 until 12/2021, the Serious Games group was part of the Multimedia Communications Lab – KOM. Since January 2022, the group is placed as research working group af the etit faculty. The group follows an application oriented approach and works interdisciplinary with experts from other disciplines at TU Darmstadt (humanities, enginieering disciplines etc.) and external groups from academia and industry. Since 2009, 9 Phd theses have been prepared in the group and around 190 Master and Bachelor theses have been supervised, i.e. ~14 per year.

Group Head

	Name	Working area(s)	Contact
	Dr.-Ing. (habil.) Stefan Göbel Head of the Serious Games research group	Serious Games, Standardization: Serious Games metadata format, RAL quality criteria, Authoring, Control, Evaluation	stefan_peter.goebel@tu-... +49 (0) 6151 16 20390 S3\|20 104

Group Members

Name	Working area(s)	Contact
Lisa Baule, M.Sc.	, , ,	lisa.baule@tu-... S3\|06 23
Wolfgang Friedrich Brabänder, B.Sc. Softwaredevelopment	Serious Games, Software Engineering	wolfgang_friedrich.brabaender@tu-... S3\|06 23
Dr.-Ing. Polona Caserman Postdoc	Serious Games, Virtual Reality, Full-Body Motion Reconstruction, Full-Body Motion Recognition, Inverse Kinematics	polona.caserman@tu-... S3\|06 23
Katharina Fohrmann, M.A. Software developer @ Deck13 Interactive	, , , ,	katharina.fohrmann@tu-... S3\|06 23
Florian Horn, M.Sc.	Serious Games, , ,	florian.horn@tu-... S3\|06 23
Robert Konrad Dipl.-Inform.	GPU-Programming, Game Technology,	robert.konrad@tu-...
Sabrina Vogt Scientific assistant	Project coordination, Conception / Design	sabrina.vogt@tu-... S3\|06 23

Associated Members

	Name	Working area(s)
	Dr.-Ing. Thomas Tregel Postdoc	Location-based Games, Human Acitivity Recognition, Procedural Content Generation
	Dr.-Ing. Augusto Garcia-Agundez Postdoc @ Brown University	Computer Science, Sensor Technology
	Dr. Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken Head of institute for design research @ Zürcher Hochschule der Künste	Exergames, Games for Health, Serious Games, (Game) Design Research, Health Design, eSports
	Prof. Dr. Greta Hoffmann	Game Design Element Ontology, Learning in Games, Independent Games, Games Theory
	Katharina Straßburg Lotcheck Game Tester @ Nintendo	Game Desgin, Quality Assurance, Serious Games
	Dennis Purdack, M.Sc.	Serious Games, Virtual Reality, Gesture Recognition, Machine Learning
	Robert Konrad Dipl.-Inform.	GPU-Programming, Game Technology,
	Philipp Niklas Müller M.Sc.	, ,
	Philipp Achenbach, M.Sc.	Serious Games, Gesture Recognition, Machine Learning

Alumni

	Name	Working area(s)
	Dr.-Ing. Tim Dutz Adviser in the board staff @ SCHUFA Holding AG	Mobile Serious Games, Pervasive Computing
	Prof. Dr. Johannes Konert Professor @ Hochschule Fulda	Programming, Web technologies
	Dr.-Ing. Florian Mehm Technical Director @ Limbic Entertainment GmbH	Authoring Serious Games, Game Technology
R	Dr.-Ing. Christian Reuter Software developer @ Deck13 Interactive	Authoring Multiplayer Games
H	Sandro Hardy	Personalized Exergames, Health Games
G	Alvar Gamez Zerban	Serious Game Development
	Dr.-Ing. Laila Shoukry	Serious Games Analytics
	Dr.-Ing. Viktor Wendel Robert Bosch GmbH - Bosch eBike Systems	Multiplayer Serious Games, Game Mastering
	Michael Gutjahr	Serious Games Evaluation, Psychology