{"id":62629,"date":"2022-06-28T16:57:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=62629"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:54:07","slug":"johanna-pirker","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/en\/speaker-presenter\/johanna-pirker\/","title":{"rendered":"Johanna Pirker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Johanna Pirker has been Professor of N-Dimensional User Experience at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and at Graz University of Technology since July 2025. She is Europe&#8217;s leading expert on gamification.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She heads the Game Lab Graz research group and conducts research on games with a focus on AI, HCI, data analysis and VR technologies. Her research focuses on the intersection of various disciplines: artificial intelligence, games research, VR and AR, human-computer interaction, data analytics and EduTech. She is also an active and strong voice in the local indie developer community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Johanna Pirker: \u2018How we understand the world through gaming.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johanna Pirker has many years of experience in developing games and VR experiences for the entertainment sector, but also specifically for areas outside of entertainment. She is the perfect keynote speaker for Gamification, Digitalisation &amp; Future<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-johanna-pirker-lecture-topics\">Johanna Pirker Lecture topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gamification: Do video games strengthen social awareness?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gaming: How we use gaming to make the world understandable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social online gaming \u2013 the real meeting place for innovation and learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Graphics cards, game engines and virtual reality \u2013 innovation through new technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>She specialises in games and environments that motivate users to learn, train and collaborate through motivating tasks. She has many years of experience in game design and development as well as in the design of virtual worlds and has worked in the video game industry at Electronic Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her research interests include AI, data analysis, immersive environments (VR), game research, gamification strategies, HCI, e-learning, CSE and IR. She has authored and presented numerous publications in her field and has lectured at universities such as Harvard, Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of G\u00f6ttingen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Johanna Pirker: \u2018It&#8217;s not just a game. It&#8217;s a game changer.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johanna Pirker started her career in the industry as a QA tester at EA and still advises studios in the field of game research. In 2011\/12, she began researching VR experiences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. 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