Nick Yee is an American
research
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er who studies self-representation and social interaction in virtual environments.
Biography
Yee earned his
bachelor's degree
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in
psychology
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from
Haverford College (with a concentration in computer science) and received his
Ph.D.
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in
communication
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from
Stanford University in 2007. He is a research scientist at the
Palo Alto Research Center
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in California.
The Daedalus Project, his research into the psychology and sociology of MMORPGs, has collected survey data from over 40,000 game players. The research that has resulted from these interviews has been cited extensively by game scholars, game developers, and popular media. Yee's research has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''BusinessWeek'', and ''CNN International'', among other media outlets. Snippets of an interview with Yee on the topic of online gaming can be seen in the documentary ''Second Skin'', which premiered at the 2008 SXSW Arts festival.
On March 8, 2009, Yee announced the hibernation of the Daedalus project, saying "... I think I came to realize that continuing the project would require more time than I could devote to it..."
In 2015, Yee co-founded Quantic Foundry with Nicolas Ducheneaut.
Bibliography
* ''The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-And How They Don't (2014)''
References
External links
*
Quantic Foundry Website
American mass media scholars
Human–computer interaction researchers
Haverford College alumni
Stanford University alumni
Living people
MUD scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)
Video game researchers
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