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Study at a NYSTAR Center of Excellence
Rensselaer is a designated New York State Center of Excellence in Digital Game Development, which works to support and grow New York state’s digital gaming sector.
For more information, visit gamehub.rpi.edu
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Game Design as a Radical Act of Preservation
Discover how using the virtual can be a radical act of preservation.
![Wireframe of a game character](https://hass.rpi.edu/sites/default/files/2019-12/Games-ResearchGrid-General.jpg)
GSAS featured research includes:
- interactive simulation
- augmented and mixed reality experience design
- virtual reality
- contemporary social theory
- game culture
- embodied conversational agent (ECA)
- computational modeling of decision-making and emotion
- human-computer interaction (HCI)