Lowered age requirements

Victor — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:39:27 +0000

Hello players!

The age requirements for participating in the study have been lowered.

If you are at least 19 years of age or have parental consent, please help us out by submitting your replays. We are accepting both WOL and HOTS replays.

Thanks for your support!

Thank you for your continued support

Victor — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:45:31 +0000

A big thank you to all who have either participated in the study or have encouraged others to participate!

With your help, we have received a good amount of replays so far. However, we still require a lot more. If you have not done so already, please consider submitting your replays by visiting our

Defining Cognitive Science, exploring the use of real-time strategy games in research

Victor — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:09:32 +0000

Dr. Blair talks about how expertise is studied in the context of real-time strategy games such as StarCraft II. Limitations as well as future directions of the research are discussed.

Watch it here:

We are still collecting replays for the expertise study. Submit your files to skillcraft.ca

Preliminary findings

Victor — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:38:18 +0000

Here are some of the interesting findings and results from our previous data collection period.

Please continue sending in your replays!

Data collection on now!

Victor — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:28:54 +0000

View the participation page for instructions on how to submit your replay files.

Please encourage other players to help out! Follow, like, share, and retweet our posts from our Facebook page and on Twitter @SkillCraftCa.

Thank you for your support.

Perception Action Cycles

Victor — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:11:28 +0000

Here’s a video describing an important variable we measure in replays

Alan Nursall interviews Dr. Mark Blair and TLO for Daily Planet.

scott — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:17:04 +0000

The Marriage of Science and StarCraft Interview @ PolarfluKe

SkillCraftLee — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:35:08 +0000

Check this site out for an in depth interview with Dr. Mark Blair on the questions behind the birth of the SkillCraft research project, the portrait of a SC2 player, and how real world applications can be enhanced by the study of such complex cognitive systems.

Wall Street Journal covers SkillCraft, and other gaming research

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:43:49 +0000

Lee Hotz, science writer for the Wall Street Journal, and Mark will be doing a livechat about SkillCraft and other video game research, tomorrow at 1pm.

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/03/05/live-blog-health-benefits-of-video-games/

You can get your questions in the queue early.

Playhem.com Provides A Whole New Meaning To World’s Largest Expertise Study.

SkillCraftLee — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:57:57 +0000

We would like to thank Playhem.com and all of their staff for their amazing support of the SkillCraft.ca project.

They are helping out the science of e-sports and SC2 by allowing us access to all the replays they have collected over the last 5 months, about 155,000 of them, from [...]

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