Nicole Lazzaro

Nicole Lazzaro was the first person to use facial expressions to measure player experiences, and has done groundbreaking research on the relationship between emotion and games.

In The Science of Fun: 3 Ways Games Make You Happier and Save the World, recorded at GSummit in 2014, Nicole Lazzaro looks at what makes games enjoyable and how those emotional effects can be put to wider use. The talk is filed under gamification.