Luis Perez Cortes

Post-Doc, Drs. Leyva/Walker

Lab

https://foodforthought.pitt.edu

Research Interests

My research explores how the playing, making, and modding of digital and tabletop games helps develop young peoples' abilities to address environmental issues, benefit underrepresented and underserved students, and aids players see the world, society, and themselves as malleable, re-designable entities.

Recent Publications

Pérez Cortés, L. E., Ha, J., Su, M., Nelson, B., Bowman C., & Bowman, J. (2023). Gleaning museum visitors’ behaviors by analyzing questions asked in a mobile app. Educational Technology Research and Development. 

Pérez Cortés, L. E., & Kessner, T. M. (2023). The future of games scholarship: An interview with James Paul Gee.  Games & Culture.

Kessner, T. M., & Pérez Cortés, L. E. (2023). Mechanics and experience in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Opportunities to develop (global) civic empathy. Simulation & Gaming.

Gao, Y., Bernier, J., Kessner, T. M., Pérez Cortés, L. E., & Gee, E. (2022). No player left behind: Exploring the use of collaborative talk in a playfixing activity. CoDesign, The International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts.

Pérez Cortés, L. E.,  Gao, Y., Kessner, T. M., Bernier, J., & Gee, E. R. (2022). Playfixing broken games: A design-oriented activity for engaging in designerly ways of thinking.  International Journal of Game-Based Learning. 

Luis Perez Cortes's Google Scholar profile

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