Jan Benjamin Vornhagen

Postdoctoral Researcher

T313 Dept. Computer Science

I am a cognitive psychologist, specializing in Empirical Aesthetics and Methodology.

My research focuses on what makes video games touching, moving or even transformative, how players experience these games and how such experiences can be studied.

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Sähköposti

jan.vornhagen@aalto.fi

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CHI PLAY Honorable Mention

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Computer Science Jan 2021

CHI PLAY Best Paper

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Computer Science Jan 2020

Tutkimusryhmät

Professorship Lindqvist Janne, Postdoctoral Researcher

Julkaisut

"An Experience That Could Not be Found Anywhere Else": Resonance as an Explanatory Concept for Player Experience Research and Game Design

Jaakko Väkevä, Jan Vornhagen, Heidi Rautalahti, Janne Lindqvist 2026 CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Images Influencing Images : How Pictorial Context Affects the Emotional Interpretation of Art Photographs

Claire Reymond, Jan B. Vornhagen, Matthew Pelowski, Klaus Opwis, Elisa D. Mekler 2023 Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Art Experience in Videogames

Julia Bopp, Jan Vornhagen, Elisa Mekler 2021

''My Soul Got a Little Bit Cleaner'': Art Experience in Videogames

Julia Bopp, Jan Vornhagen, Elisa Mekler 2021 Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Statistical Significance Testing at CHI PLAY: Challenges and Opportunities for More Transparency

Jan Vornhagen, April Tyack, Elisa Mekler 2020 CHI PLAY 2020 - Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play