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Doctor Damien Anderson

Teaching Associate

Computer and Information Sciences

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Personal statement

I have been a student at the 吃瓜tv's CIS department since 2011 as an Undergraduate and during my PhD. I am now working as a Teaching Associate with the CIS Department and I am the Programme Leader for the MSc in Software Development course.

My research interests lie in the areas of Video Games, AI, Gamification, Building Educational Tools, Ensemble Decision Systems, General Game Playing, and Deceptive Games.听

Video Games offer a fantastic research platform from which innovations in other fields can be implemented. The wide variety of environments and perspectives available provides AI researchers with a plethora of options for experimentation. It is my hope that the research that I conduct can be used to make the lives of people easier, freeing up their time to do more of what they want.

I am an advocate for improving education through the use of games, and game like mechanisms, through a process known as Gamification where education takes on many common aspects of games. The goal of this process is to make education less of a chore and more of a rewarding and enrichening experience that can be taken on by anyone. The guiding philosophy is to focus and reward the process of building up a person's knowledge, and building up more of a resistance to failure. Video Games offer the ability to restart any challenge, which may be helpful in teaching people to be more resilient in their day to day lives. Failure is often the first step to success.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
5/2/2016

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Publications

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HCAIep '26 3rd International Conference on Human-Centred AI - Education and Practice, HCAI-ep 2026, pp. 124 (2026)
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UKICER '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on UK and Ireland Computing Education Research UKICER 2025: UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, pp. 1-1 (2025)
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UKICER '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on UK and Ireland Computing Education Research UKICER 2025: UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, pp. 1-1 (2025)
, Harvey Paul, Kaneta Yusaku, Papadopoulos Petros, Rodgers Philip,
GECCO 2022 Companion - Proceedings of the 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO 2022 GECCO 2022 Companion - Proceedings of the 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 1924鈥�1925 (2022)
Stephenson Matthew, , Khalifa Ahmed, Levine John, Renz Jochen, Togelius Julian, Salge Christoph
2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2020 - Conference Proceedings 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2020 (2020)
Dubiel Mateusz, , , , Daronnat Sylvain
The Third International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (2020)

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Professional Activities

Peer reviewer
1/9/2026
Peer reviewer
13/7/2026
Recipient
19/3/2026
Recipient
18/11/2025
Speaker
12/11/2025
Peer reviewer
11/11/2025

Projects

Clift, Lee (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Damien (Co-investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator) Weir, Catriona (Researcher)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2026
Nikou, Stavros (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Damien (Research Co-investigator) Arnott, Lorna (Co-investigator) Roper, Marc (Academic)
The project will explore pupils and teachers understanding and experiences with AI aiming to enhance their AI literacy levels and develop AI-focused curriculum resources.
30-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025

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Contact

Doctor Damien Anderson
Teaching Associate
Computer and Information Sciences

Email: damien.anderson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3138