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Hi, My name’s Huon Longman.
My research is about the social relationships between players of massively
multiplayer online games and the friendships these players have which each other.
These online friendships are just like friendships you have in real life.
I like to liken it to a sporting team, you would come together to play a game of soccer
or to kill a dragon and before the game and before the dragon killing, you talk about
movies and music and what’s going on in your and that’s how you form friendships.
I get to work with a really really cool team of people, my supervisors are smart,
their dedicated, they believe in my research and they have a big international standing.
The research that they produce here goes all around the world
and has serious impacts all over the place.
As part of my research I’ve met researchers from Korea and
communicating with someone from the states about what it is that I’m doing
and how it can be used to make games better.
So one day my research will hopefully be used to make better online games
and to make games that foster these friendships between players.
Hopefully bringing gamers all around the world closer together.