| Title | Towards Understanding Streamer Personas In Educational Live Streaming |
| Presenter(s) | Noor Hammad, Erik Harpstead and Jessica Hammer |
| Session | Games in Education Contexts |
| Time | Thursday, October 13, 10:30a-11:30a |
| Location | Lake Ontario |
| Format | Microtalk |
| Description | In this microtalk talk, I will discuss our in-progress work towards understanding streamer personas in educational game streaming. The goal of this microtalk is to begin a conversation with the Meaningful Play community about this topic and receive feedback on how we can begin exploring streamer personas in future work. The talk will focus on the question: how do factors such as streamer expertise, domain expertise, viewer community size and rapport play in the educational streaming experience? As we are particularly interested in successfully bringing educational games to Twitch, understanding the characteristics of streamer personas will be crucial in our design process. This work is thus of major interest to the Meaningful Play community, and will make future work on understanding and supporting various streamer personas possible. |
