{"id":251606,"date":"2026-05-21T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/the-columns-wl-students-accepted-for-publication-at-the-gaming-and-technology-conference-washington-and-lee-university\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:30:09","slug":"the-columns-wl-students-accepted-for-publication-at-the-gaming-and-technology-conference-washington-and-lee-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/the-columns-wl-students-accepted-for-publication-at-the-gaming-and-technology-conference-washington-and-lee-university\/","title":{"rendered":"The Columns \u00bb W&#038;L Students Accepted for Publication at the Gaming and Technology Conference \u00bb Washington and Lee University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/columns.wlu.edu\/wl-students-accepted-for-publication-at-the-gaming-and-technology-conference\/\">The Columns \u00bb W&#038;L Students Accepted for Publication at the Gaming and Technology Conference \u00bb Washington and Lee University<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/columns.wlu.edu\/wl-students-accepted-for-publication-at-the-gaming-and-technology-conference\/\">https:\/\/columns.wlu.edu\/wl-students-accepted-for-publication-at-the-gaming-and-technology-conference\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 13:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"columns.wlu.edu\">columns.wlu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline mb-5 text-center\">By Lily Caldwell<br \/>May 21, 2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Washington and Lee University students Trey Custodio \u201926 and Sanjog Basnet \u201927 recently co-authored a paper alongside Liz Matthews, associate professor of computer science, titled \u201cExploring User Demographics for Research on Video Games.\u201d The paper was accepted for publication at the Gaming and Technology Conference, an international conference concentrated on game and entertainment technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Custodio and Basnet\u2019s research focused on designing a survey centered around gaming preferences and player behavior. Their goal was to identify meaningful and consistent patterns that could help researchers better group and classify gamers in future research containing video games. Custodio and Basnet began the foundation for a non-linear classification system driven by capturing which enjoyment factors drive the participant to play games such as game flow, engagement or external motivating factors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanjog and Trey focused on the preliminary design of the questionnaire based on current established enjoyment factors, refining of the questionnaire with my guidance, distribution of the questionnaire, collection, verification and sanitization of the data, preliminary analysis of the data and drafting the publication,\u201d said Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>Custodio and Basnet conducted the research under Matthews as Summer Research Scholars in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my first experience conducting research at this scale, so it was both exciting and a little intimidating at first, especially since the topic was something we were genuinely passionate about,\u201d said Basnet, a computer science and cognitive and behavioral science double major from Kathmandu, Nepal. \u201cThere were a lot of small details and processes that were completely new to me, but it ended up being an incredibly valuable learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Gaming and Technology Conference, at which Matthews will present their work, will be held July&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/columns.wlu.edu\/wl-students-accepted-for-publication-at-the-gaming-and-technology-conference\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columns \u00bb W&#038;L Students Accepted for Publication at the Gaming and Technology Conference \u00bb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/columns.wlu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Basnet-Custodio-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251610,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251606\/revisions\/251610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}