PhD defense completed – get ready
This Thursday I succesfully defended my PhD thesis entitled Plans and Purposes: How Videogame Goals Shape Player Behaviour (slides / preliminary dissertation final dissertation).
The opponents asked reasonable questions, the technical equipment worked flawlessly, the post-defense red wine was half-decent, and any post-defence tension was relieved through honorable Guitar Hero combat. Thanks to everyone who showed up.
And a warm congratulations to ex-roomie Miguel Sicart who defended his thesis on games and ethics yesterday (Miguel’s preliminary thesis).
I’ll be uploading the final version of my thesis as soon as it’s ready.
Mission completed.
(oh and I love the Germanification of my name on the ITU posters. It has a nice academic ring).

- “Look, players ARE rational. End of story”.
Dette indlæg ligner…
/Anne Mette Thorhauge defends game PhD (24/08/2007)
/Dissertation proves defensible (16/11/2006)
/As we may watch (28/09/2006)
/Dissertation V0.9 (29/09/2006)
/Plans and Purposes: Final version of dissertation (05/01/2007)












December 11th, 2006 at 07:35
Rigtig mange gange til lykke med det :)
December 11th, 2006 at 11:51
big congrats on your level up, Doctor Schmith!!
Nothing can hold you back now :)
December 12th, 2006 at 13:23
Ah, thanks guys.
December 22nd, 2006 at 00:21
2007? ;)
December 22nd, 2006 at 00:36
Hehe, I hadn’t seen that actually. I must be ahead of my time.
February 12th, 2007 at 18:04
[...] on from the research and thesis of Dr Jonas Smith, are players behaviour towards each [...]
October 15th, 2007 at 20:57
Congrats on your defense. I have mine scheduled for Thursday of this week….cannot say that I am not nervous.