Female gamers wanted by Shef Uni research

[john.conner 10]

The University of Sheffield is looking for females with an interest in games to take part in a speech recognition study.

 

We are looking for female voices to spend a half day playing, or learning to play, the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000. *No experience is required*, but any interest in gaming -- computer games or tabletop games -- is likely to make the event enjoyable for participants. (Players of Dawn of War might in particular light to learn about the real life version of the game.)

 

We will record you playing the game, but all data is carefully controlled and is not made available to the general public. We can pay reasonable travel expenses to Sheffield if needed, and provide loads of free food and a teacher who will explain the game to you. If our budget and legals allow, we will try to pay you a small fee too, eg. 20 quid.

 

The purpose of the study is to balance the gender of voices in the data -- we use 40k as it has interesting properties for speech research, but there are not many female players.

 

We will form individual particpants into teams on the day and teach you to play, but we would also welcome groups of friends who would like to learn together as a fun day out, and (especially) any experienced players.

 

Please contact [email protected] if you're interested, we hope to record in the next couple of weeks.

[esme 10]

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