Updates
AP University’s Rocket League team wins Belgian Student League
Laura Herrewijn and I helped our students launch their own esports community. Our brand new Rocket League team won first place vs PXL!
https://www.ap.be/artikel/ap-spartans-gamen-zich-naar-top-van-belgian-student-league (Dutch)
May 2024
E3: Enhancing the Esports Experience Workshop, Italy
Laura Herrewijn and I had the honor of organizing the first E3: Enhancing the Esports Experience workshop at the CHIRA conference in Rome.
https://medium.com/@svencharleer/enhancing-the-esports-experience-dfa4bea998dc
– Nov 2023
CHI PLAY 2023, Stratford, Canada
We published and Laura Herrewijn presented our work “Spectator LF Streamer: Facilitating Better Stream Discovery through Spectator Motivations and Stream Affordances” at CHI PLAY 2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3573382.3616089
– October 2023
BEAT: Better Esports Analytics for Teams
Laura Herrewijn and I begin a 2 year project where we will focus on creating better analytics for esports teams.
https://www.ap.be/project/better-esports-analytics-teams (Dutch)
– September 2023
Game Usability 2nd Edition: the Definitive Book on Game UX is out!
Thank you Celia Hodent for inviting me to co-author the chapter on “eSports UX” with Laura Levy and Taylor Wright.
https://medium.com/@svencharleer/game-usability-2nd-edition-the-definitive-book-on-game-ux-is-out-c10a8df31978
– March 2022
Videos
Publications
My publications related to esports. This list also contains previous research related to data visualisations, dashboards and learning analytics.
If you are looking for the full text of an article, feel free to contact me at svencharleer@gmail.com.
2023
Herrewijn, L., & Charleer, S. (2023, November). Power to the Spectator: Towards an Enhanced Video Game Stream Discovery Experience. In International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (pp. 349-360). Springer, Cham.
Herrewijn, L., & Charleer, S. (2023, October). Spectator LF Streamer: Facilitating Better Stream Discovery through Spectator Motivations and Stream Affordances. In Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 135-142).
2022
Levy, L., Charleer, S., & Wright, T. D. (2022). The Esports Experience: Fan, Player, and Beyond. In Game Usability (pp. 377-399). CRC Press.
2020
Kriglstein, S., Wallner, G., Charleer, S., Gerling, K., Mirza-Babaei, P., Schirra, S., & Tscheligi, M. (2020, April). Be Part Of It: Spectator Experience in Gaming and Esports. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (pp. 1-7).
2019
Gutiérrez, F., Htun, N. N., Charleer, S., De Croon, R., & Verbert, K. (2019, January). Designing Augmented Reality Applications for Personal Health Decision-Making. In Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Charleer, S., Gutiérrez, F., & Verbert, K. (2019, March). Supporting job mediator and job seeker through an actionable dashboard. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 121-131).
Gutiérrez, F., Charleer, S., De Croon, R., Htun, N. N., Goetschalckx, G., & Verbert, K. (2019, September). Explaining and exploring job recommendations: a user-driven approach for interacting with knowledge-based job recommender systems. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 60-68).
2018
Charleer, S., Gutiérrez, F., Gerling, K., & Verbert, K. (2018, October). Towards an Open Standard for Gameplay Metrics. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts(pp. 399-406). ACM.
Charleer, S., Gerling, K., Gutiérrez, F., Cauwenbergh, H., Luycx, B., & Verbert, K. (2018, October). Real-Time Dashboards to Support eSports Spectating. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 59-71). ACM.
Charleer, S., Moere, A. V., Klerkx, J., Verbert, K., & De Laet, T. (2018). Learning analytics dashboards to support adviser-student dialogue. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 11(3), 389-399.
Millecamp, M., Gutiérrez, F., Charleer, S., Verbert, K., & De Laet, T. (2018, March). A qualitative evaluation of a learning dashboard to support advisor-student dialogues. In Proceedings of the 8th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference (pp. 1-5). ACM.
2017
Charleer, S. (2017). Designing and Evaluating Student-facing Learning Dashboards: Lessons Learnt. PhD dissertation, KU Leuven, 2017. [pdf]
Charleer, S., Klerkx, J., Duval, E., De Laet, T. and Verbert, K. (2017) Towards balanced discussions in the classroom using ambient information visualisations, Int. J. Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 9, Nos. 2/3, pp.227–253.
de Freitas, S., Gibson, D., Alvarez, V., Irving, L., Star, K., Charleer, S., & Verbert, K. (2017, April). How to use Gamified Dashboards and Learning Analytics for Providing Immediate Student Feedback and Performance Tracking in Higher Education. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (pp. 429-434). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee.
Martinez-Maldonado, R., Shum, S. B., Schneider, B., Charleer, S., Klerkx, J., & Duval, E. (2017). Learning Analytics for Natural User Interfaces: A Framework, Case Studies and a Maturity Analysis. Journal of Learning Analytics, 4(1), 24-57.
2016
Charleer, Sven, Joris Klerkx, Erik Duval, Tinne De Laet, and Katrien Verbert. Creating Effective Learning Analytics Dashboards: Lessons Learnt. In European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, pp. 42-56. Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Charleer, Sven, Joris Klerkx, Erik Duval, Tinne De Laet, and Katrien Verbert. Faceted search on coordinated tablets and tabletop: a comparison. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, pp. 165-170. ACM, 2016.
Martinez-Maldonado, Roberto; Schneider, Bertrand; Charleer, Sven; Buckingham Shum, Simon; Klerkx, Joris; Duval, Erik, Interactive Surfaces and Learning Analytics: Data, Orchestration Aspects, Pedagogical Uses and Challenges, LAK16: International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, Edinburgh, UK, 2016, ACM
Ruiz, Samara; Charleer, Sven; Urretavizcaya, Maite; Klerkx, Joris; Fernandez-Castro, Isabel; Duval, Erik. Supporting learning by considering emotions: Tracking and Visualization. A case study, LAK16: International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, Edinburgh, UK, 2016, ACM
2015
Charleer, Sven; Klerkx, Joris; Duval, Erik. PoPI: glyph designs for collaborative filtering on interactive tabletops, Eurovis, Cagliari, Italy, 25-29 May 2015, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) – Short Papers, pages 097-101, The Eurographics Association
Santos, Jose Luis; Verbert, Katrien; Klerkx, Joris; Duval, Erik; Charleer, Sven; Ternier, Stefaan. Tracking data in open learning environments, Journal of Universal Computer Science, volume 21, issue 7, pages 976-996, 2015
Charleer, Sven; Klerkx, Joris; Duval, Erik. Exploring Inquiry-Based Learning Analytics through Interactive Surfaces, VISLA: VISual Approaches to Learning Analytics, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, 17 March 2015
2014
Charleer, Sven; Klerkx, Joris; Duval, Erik. Learning dashboards, Journal of Learning Analytics, volume 1, issue 3, pages 199-202, 2014
Alvarez, Victor; Klerkx, Joris; Charleer, Sven; Duval, Erik; De Moor. Science 2.0 and visual data exploration using augmented reality, ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS), Dresden, Germany, October 2014, Proceedings of the Workshop on Collaboration Meets Interactive Surfaces: Walls, Tables, Tablets and Phones (CMIS), pages 1-6
Charleer, Sven; Santos Odriozola, Jose Luis; Klerkx, Joris; Duval, Erik. LARAe: learning analytics reflection & awareness environment, ARTEL14: 4th Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Graz, Austria, 16 September 2014, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, volume 1238, pages 85-87, CEUR-WS
Charleer, Sven; Santos Odriozola, Jose Luis; Klerkx, Joris; Duval, Erik. Improving teacher awareness through activity, badge and content visualizations, 1st International Workshop on Open Badges in Education, Tallinn, Estonia, 14-17 August 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 8699, pages 143-152
Duval, Erik; Parra Chico, Gonzalo Alberto; Santos Odriozola, Jose Luis; Agten, Sam; Charleer, Sven; Klerkx, Joris. Learning HCI and infovis in the open, 2011 IFIP WG 13.7 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization, Springer, 2014
2013
Charleer, Sven; Klerkx, Joris; Santos Odriozola, Jose Luis; Duval, Erik. Improving awareness and reflection through collaborative, interactive visualizations of badges, ARTEL13: 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Paphos, Cyprus, 17 September 2013, ARTEL13: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning, volume 1103, pages 69-81, CEUR-WS
Santos Odriozola, Jose Luis; Charleer, Sven; Parra Chico, Gonzalo Alberto; Klerkx, Joris; Duval, Erik; Verbert, Katrien. Evaluating the use of open badges in an open learning environment, ECTEL13: European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Paphos, Cyprus, 17-21 Sept 2013, Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact, pages 314-327, Springer Berlin Heidelberg