Prabhav Bhatnagar
Doctoral Researcher
Doctoral Researcher
T313 Dept. Computer Science
I am interested in exploring player experience in games and other playful activities, with a special interest in game feel (i.e. the moment-to-moment experience of playing games). I aim to characterize my research by making it gameplay centric, good games research needs goods games to play :3
Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Areas of expertise
game design, player experience, game feel, game development
Honors and awards
FDG 2025 Early Career Best Paper
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Computer Science
May 2025
Research groups
- Professorship Hämäläinen Perttu, Doctoral Researcher
Publications
Beyond Satisfaction: Game Feel Design for Emotionally Impactful Experiences
Prabhav Bhatnagar, Markus Laattala, Supriya Dutta, Tom Cole, Perttu Hämäläinen
2025
FDG '25: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
Towards Understanding Waiting in Video Games
Nina Tepponen, Prabhav Bhatnagar, Jaakko Väkevä, Perttu Hämäläinen
2025
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Understanding the Design of Emotionally Impactful Game Feel
Prabhav Bhatnagar, Markus Laattala, Supriya Dutta, Perttu Hämäläinen
2024
CHI-PLAY Companion 2024 - Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Towards Understanding Waiting in Video Games
Nina Tepponen, Prabhav Bhatnagar, Perttu Hämäläinen
2024
CHI-PLAY Companion 2024 - Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play