Nick Yee is an American

research Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

er who studies self-representation and social interaction in virtual environments.

Biography

Yee earned his

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psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

from

Haverford College Haverford College ( ) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Fr ...

(with a concentration in computer science) and received his Ph.D. in

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from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 2007. He was a researcher at the

Palo Alto Research Center Future Concepts division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. It was founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, as a div ...

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from 2005 to 2012. The Daedalus Project, his research into the psychology and sociology of

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s, has collected survey data from over 40,000 game players. The research that has resulted from these interviews has been cited extensively by game scholars, game developers, and popular media. Yee's research has appeared in ''

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'', and ''

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'', among other media outlets. Snippets of an interview with Yee on the topic of online gaming can be seen in the documentary ''Second Skin'', which premiered at the 2008 SXSW Arts festival. On March 8, 2009, Yee announced the hibernation of the Daedalus project, saying "... I think I came to realize that continuing the project would require more time than I could devote to it..." In 2015, Yee co-founded Quantic Foundry with Nicolas Ducheneaut.

Bibliography

* ''The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-And How They Don't (2014)''

References

External links

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Quantic Foundry Website
American mass media scholars Human–computer interaction researchers Haverford College alumni Stanford University alumni Living people MUD scholars Year of birth missing (living people) Video game researchers {{MUD-stub