Johanna Pirker at "Wissenschaft für jedermann"

Video games are far more than just entertainment. They push graphics chips to their limits, drive the development of artificial intelligence, and enable experiments in virtual worlds that would be difficult or impossible in the real world.

In her lecture at the Deutsches Museum, Prof. Johanna Pirker will show how video games advance technological innovation, make complex systems tangible, and serve as experimental fields for AI, virtual worlds, and new forms of learning. She will also explain why games are fundamentally changing the way we learn, work, and conduct research.

Prof. Johanna Pirker is a computer scientist and Professor of N-Dimensional User Experiences at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich, as well as an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Graz. She began her career in the gaming industry at Electronic Arts (EA) and continues to advise studios on user research for games.

In her research and teaching, Pirker combines game development, AI, virtual reality, and human-computer interaction. Her vision is to develop intelligent, playful, and immersive systems that connect real and virtual worlds and make complex knowledge accessible to everyone. On Twitch and YouTube (@JoeyPrink), she shares her work in computer science, game development, and research with a wide audience.

For her work, she was included in Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” list of scientists in 2018.

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