Thomas Westin Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
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Name and title: Thomas WestinSenior Lecturer, Associate Professor
ORCID0000-0001-7572-8790 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Computer and Systems Sciences Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Nodhuset, Borgarfjordsgatan 12
Office hours 09.00-17.00 CET (meeting on agreement)
Postal address Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap164 25 Kista
About me
I am a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, Sweden. I am part of the Distributed Immersive Participation research group. I teach immersive environments and eXtended Reality (XR), prototyping of games, playtesting, usability testing, inclusive design, human-computer interaction and am also supervisor for bachelor and master student exam works. Furthermore, I am also co-supervisor for a PhD student. My research mainly concerns inclusive design with focus on games and immersive environments but also ICT4D and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). I managed the Platform for Smart people project between 2022-2024, funded by Digital futures.
I often volunteer as reviewer for journals (e.g. Entertainment Computing, IEEE Transactions on Games), conference papers (ECGBL, FDG) and contributes as jury for game awards (ECGBL, CIPT awards). I started the IGDA Game Accessibility SIG in 2003. I am board member of the Swedish Council of Game Researchers. I and my colleagues recieved the Innovation in Audio Award at Independent Games Festival 2003 for Terraformers, a game for both blind and sighted. I was guest lecturer for six months during 2018 at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) in Paris and their game master programme ENJMIN in Angoulême.
Bachelor level courses
- Human- Computer Interaction (7.5 hec).
- Immersive Environments (7.5 hec).
- Games Based Learning (7.5 hec).
- Inclusive design of interactive environments (7.5 hec).
- Game prototyping (7.5 hec).
Master level courses
- (Upcoming game courses) .
PhD courses
- Virtual Assistive Technologies (7.5 hec)
Supervision
- PhD student thesis (co-supervisor)
- Master students theses
- Bachelor student theses
Inclusive design of games, extended reality, and game development processes



