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John Dunham

Assistant Professor of Games and Emerging Media

Bio

Dr. John Dunham (He/Him) is a professor in the Games & Emerging Media program at Marist University. He is a career programmer with over 10 years of professional experience at organizations such as IBM. Applying his professional experience and passion for games to his academic pursuits, he specializes in locative media and designed affordances in games and emerging media. His research has been published in high-impact venues in the HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) space, such as CHI and TOCHI. In addition to his academic research, Dr. Dunham has worked in the games industry professionally as both a developer (1st Playable) and a user experience researcher (Niantic Games). In his free time, he builds games using engines such as Godot and Unity.  


Education

Ph.D, Computing and Information Sciences - Rochester Institute of Technology, 2024
MS, Game Design and Development, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2015
BS, Computer Science, Marist, 2012


Research Interests / Areas of Focus

Designed Affordances and User Affect
Locative Media
Ethical Computing
Playful Pedagogy


Selected Publications

Xu, Jiangnan ; Luna, Sanzida M. ; Tigwell, Garreth W. ; Lalone, Nicolas ; Saker, Michael ; Laato, Samuli ; Dunham, John ; Wang, Yihong ; Chamberlain, Alan ; Papangelis, Konstantinos: Understanding the Interplay Between the Digital and the Physical in Shared Augmented Reality Gaming: Probing through Urban Legends. In: ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. (2025), August. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3749841

Xu, Jiangnan ; Papangelis, Konstantinos ; Tigwell, Garreth W. ; Lalone, Nicolas ; Zhou, Pengyuan ; Saker, Michael ; Chamberlain, Alan ; Dunham, John ; Luna, Sanzida M. ; Schwartz, David: Spatial Computing: Defining the Vision for the Future. In: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2024 (CHI EA ’24). – ISBN 9798400703317 

John Dunham, Nicolas L. Konstantinos Papangelis P. Konstantinos Papangelis ; Wang, Yihong: The player traits and gratifications of casual and hardcore players in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, Ingress, and Pokémon GO. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2024.2345293. Version: 2024 

Dunham, John ; Xu, Jiangnan ; Papangelis, Konstantinos ; Lalone, Nicolas ; Saker, Michael ; Schwartz, David: Pokémon GO as an Advertising Platform: The Case for Locative Advertising in Location-Based Games. In: Games: Research and Practice (2024), February. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3641509.

Luna, Sanzida M. ; Xu, Jiangnan ; Papangelis, Konstantinos ; Tigwell, Garreth; Lalone, Nicolas ; Saker, Michael ; Chamberlain, Alan ; Laato, Samuli ; Dunham, John ; Wang, Yihong: Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination in a Co-located Shared Augmented Reality Game: Perspectives From Deaf and Hard of Hearing People. 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642953

Dunham, John ; Papangelis, Konstantinos ; Boulanger, Cati ; Lalone, Nicolas ; Nika, Evangelia ; Saker, Michael ; Schwartz, David: Building Positively Affective Location-Based Advertising: A Study of Pokémon GO Players. In: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, April 2023 (CHI ’23). – ISBN 978–1–4503–9421–5, 1–19 

Xu, Jiangnan ; Papangelis, Konstantinos ; Dunham, John ; Boulanger, Cati ; Lee, Jin H. ; Lalone, Nicolas ; Saker, Michael: Understanding Social Interactions in Location-Based Games as Hybrid Spaces: Coordination and Collaboration in Raiding in Pokémon GO. In: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2023 (CHI ’23). – ISBN 9781450394215 

Dunham, John ; Papangelis, Konstantinos ; Laato, Samuli ; Lalone, Nicolas; Lee, Jin ; Saker, Michael: The Impacts of Covid-19 on Players of Pokémon GO. In: ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 30 (2023), September, Nr. 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3569896

Dunham, John ; Xu, Jiangnan ; Papangelis, Konstantinos ; Schwartz, David I.: Advertising in Location-Based Games: An Exploration in Pokémon GO. In: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2022 (CHI EA ’22). –ISBN 9781450391566 

Xu, Jiangnan ; Papangelis, Konstantinos ; Dunham, John ; Goncalves, Jorge ; LaLone, Nicolas J. ; Chamberlain, Alan ; Lykourentzou, Ioanna ; Vinella, Federica L. ; Schwartz, David I.: Metaverse: The Vision for the Future. In:Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2022 (CHI EA ’22). – ISBN 9781450391566 

Dunham, John: Location Based Games and the People Who Play Them. In: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2021 (CHI PLAY ’21). – ISBN 9781450383561, 394–396 

Besaw, N. ; Scheidenbach, L. ; Dunham, J. ; Kaur, S. ; Ohmacht, A. ; Pizzano, F. ; Park, Y.: Cluster system management. In: IBM Journal of Research and Development 64 (2020), Nr. 3/4, S. 7:1–7:9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1147/JRD.2020.2967309 

Quintero, Dino ; Apuzzo, Joseph ; Mauricio Faria de Oliveira ; Markus Hilger ; Desnes Augusto Nunes Rosario ; Wainer dos Santos Moschetta ; Alexander Pozdneev: IBM POWER8 high-performance computing guide: IBM Power System S822LC (8335-GTB) edition. First edition. Poughkeepsie, NY : IBM Corporation, International Technical Support Organization, 2017. – ISBN 978–0–7384–4255–6. – OCLC: 993443652


Contact Information

Academic School

School of Communication and the Arts

Office

Lowell Thomas 145

Email

john.dunham1@Marist.edu

Phone

(845) 575-3000, ext. 2687