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Fully Funded AHRC PhD Scholarship: Artificial Intelligence in Analogue and Digital Games

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We are pleased to announce that we have secured funding from the AHRC's North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership for a PhD Scholarship on Artificial Intelligence in Analogue and Digital Games to commence in September 2018 at Manchester Metropolitan University. You can apply for the PhD Scholarship here. Taking its title from Alan Turing's'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', this project approaches Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the perspective of the analogue (non-digital), taking instances of AI in analogue games as a point of entry into understanding the issues relating to the everyday dialogues between the human and the mechanical. Responding to an analogue turn within the games industry, this PhD studentship is designed to initiate new research into AI as it takes an analogue form within contemporary tabletop games (e.g., board, card and roleplaying games). In order to examine the differing behavioural, experiential, and design aspects as they relate to the materiality of AI across a wide range of often intersecting platforms, the research on analogue AI will take place alongside an investigation of AI in digital games.