Bob De Schutter | |
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De Schutter at the 2011 CHI Belgium Barcamp
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Born | 1981 (age 35–36) Belgium |
Alma mater | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Karel de Grote-Hogeschool |
Occupation | Video game designer, researcher, professor |
Employer | Miami University |
Known for | Game Design for Older Adults |
Title | C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Applied Game Design |
Website | www.bobdeschutter.be |
Bob De Schutter is a Belgian video game designer and researcher, who is the C. Michael Armstrong professor of Applied Game Design at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). He is best known for his work on the design of video games for players in middle through late adulthood. He has advocated the importance of play in later life and has spoken out against the stereotyping of older video game players in marketing and game design. He has also published on the design of experimental classrooms for gameful instruction.
De Schutter graduated from the Karel de Grote-Hogeschool (Antwerp, Belgium) in 2003 with a MA in Visual Arts, and in 2011 he received his Ph.D. in the Social Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). His doctoral thesis was on "The meaning of digital games to an older audience".
From 2007 until 2012 De Schutter was a researcher, teacher and game designer for the e-Media Lab of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (campus Group T), where he worked on games to facilitate inter-generational knowledge transfer, rehabilitate psycho-motor skills, train entrepreneurial skills, sensitize university students on urban mobility for the disabled and teach the psychology of game design. At Miami University, he worked on an interactive app about Freedom Summer.
De Schutter founded the Flemish Chapter of the Digital Games Research Association and chaired its executive board until May 2013. He is an honorary member of DiGRA Flanders.
Since August 2013, he is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor at the College of Education, Health & Society and the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). He is also a research fellow at the Scripps Gerontology Center.