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Spillover Effects from Games Research: Several Associations Promise Cooperation

With a roundtable at gamescom congress and a reception by BMFTR and DLR later that day, the topic of spillover effects from games research and industry has been a focal point of last week. The DGSW and the German Informatics Society promised further collaboration.

Pascal Wagner
Pascal Wagner
August 31, 2026 – 2 min read

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Spillover Effects from Games Research: Several Associations Promise Cooperation
From left to right: The organizers and speakers of the roundtable: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Florian Mehm (Wilhelm Büchner University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt), Prof. Dr. Oliver Hugo (Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences), Prof. Dr. Johanna Pirker (Technical University of Munich), Prof. Stephan Jacob (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences), Prof. Dr. Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken (ZHDK Zurich), and Dr.-Ing. (habil.) Stefan Göbel (Technical University of Darmstadt).

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