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Presented by: Dr. Johanna Pirker
We know Twitch mainly from watching others play video games. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how versatile Twitch content can be and in many different areas, this platform can be a game changer. Dr. Johanna Pirker, for example, started streaming her university courses on Twitch and instead of 140 students she had 400 students watching and discussing from all over the world! In this session, Dr. Pirker will discuss the platform’s potential for different areas and applications, and will share Do's and Don'ts.
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A
A
Thank
you
so
much
and
welcome
to
my
presentation.
I'm
very
excited
to
be
part
of
this
event.
My
name
is
Jana
Pika
and
I'm,
a
professor
at
Kratz
University
of
Technology
and
at
the
moment
also
visiting
professor
at
eth
and
in
in
Munich
and
I'm,
very
excited
to
talk
about
one
of
my
favorite
topics,
namely
the
world
of
games
and
game
related
Technologies.
You
can
also
find
me
on
different
social
media
platforms,
mainly
Twitter
and
GitHub,
of
course,
I'm
with
joy
prink
in
Austria.
A
A
Gamification
research
but
I'm
also
super
excited
to
just
use
games
as
a
tool
to
engage
people,
but
also
of
the
game
and
the
entertainment
world
and
I
strongly
believe
that
the
current
media
Technologies
we
have
and
often
motivated
through
the
games
industry,
can
be
used
for
so
many
other
seeds
as
well.
So
when
we
look
at
this
slide,
we
see
three
logos,
which
we
probably
all
sort
of
have
seen
at
some
point.
A
We
have
Tick
Tock,
we
have
twitch
and
we
have
fortnite
and
all
three
of
them
I
think
if
we
think
of
those
companies
or
Technologies,
we
immediately
only
think
about
entertainment
and
fun
and
I,
don't
know,
maybe
short,
Short
news,
short
messages
or
whatever.
However,
when
I
think
of
those
Technologies
when
I
use
them
I
think
of
something
entirely
different,
namely
education.
A
A
Basically,
what
did
motivate
me
to
use
a
platform
like
twitch
and
there
I
need
to
point
out.
I
I
would
always
say
the
elephant
in
the
room,
namely
the
pandemic.
So
I
think
the
pandemic
was
a
life
changer.
For
so
many
of
us
I
mean
there
have
been
so
many
terrible
happenings
around
the
pandemic
and
the
lockdowns,
but
also
positive
aspects,
so
especially
how
we
are
able
to
work.
These
days
has
been
pretty
pretty
much
reshaped
by
the
better
lockdowns.
A
So
all
of
a
sudden,
the
digitalization
has
been
pushed
forward
quite
a
lot
and
for
me
being
in
the
in
the
in
the
realm
of
I.T.
It
sometimes
was
a
really
positive
push,
so
we
had
the
possibility
to
all
of
a
sudden
work
from
home,
avoid
a
lot
of
flying
around
all
around
the
world
for
meetings
and
just
be
together
online,
and
especially
also
for
the
world
of
games.
It
was
quite
a
push
because
all
of
a
sudden
games
were
not
only
this
medium
of
hey,
it's
all
of
all
about
addiction.
A
There
were
so
many
companies
and
organizations,
including
the
who
actually
recommending
to
play
video
games,
especially
like
all
health
related
games,
so
that
you
can
stay
also
fit
at
home
during
the
lockdowns,
but
especially
also
the
social
experiences,
because
what
many
people
do
not
know
the
world
of
games
is
something
which
is
very
social
in
in
games.
Most
of
us
against
all
the
biases
we
have
most
of
us
like
to
play
with
friends,
and
many
of
the
platforms
we
have
around
games
are
very
resourceful,
I
mean
just
think
of
this
world
of
Zoom.
A
We
are
currently
living
in
like
I,
okay,
I'm,
a
doctor
in
computer
science,
but
I
start
still.
Every
Zoom
call
with
hello.
Can
you
hear
me?
Does
it?
Work
does
mic
work
and
it
never
works
and
the
everything,
however,
of
a
game
like
World
of
Warcraft?
This
is
out
there
for
more
than
10
years
and
it
just
works.
A
Thousands
of
people
can
play
with
each
other
in
a
3D,
World
and
fight
with
thousands
of
others.
30
avatars
digital
dreams-
and
this
is
this-
is
crazy.
This
is
like
such
a
nice
technology,
and
it
just
works
like
that,
and
we
don't
go
in
word
of
Warcraft.
Hey
does
my.
Does
my
weapon
work,
it
just
works
and
I
think
there
are
so
many
Technologies
we
can
actually
use
from
from
the
game
realm
also
in
other
social
spaces.
A
A
I
can
maybe
see
you,
but
it's
so
obvious
that
I
am
in
my
home
office
and
you
are
in
yours
and
even
though
we
can
see
each
other,
we
are
physically
very
apart
in
a
in
a
game
or
in
the
social
spaces.
However,
we're
sort
of
standing
next
to
each
other,
and
we
can
spend
time
together
and
that's
why
what
you
can
also
see
on
this
slide
and
where
you
can
see
this,
this
game,
Animal
Crossing
and
you
create
this
small,
tiny
avatars.
You
create
your
Island
and
you
can
create
a
virtual
Museum.
A
And
then
you
just
invite
friends
over
and
you
can
spend
time
digitally
in
this
in
this
virtual
world,
and
this
does
something
to
our
head
because
all
of
a
sudden
like
we
are
next
to
each
other
and
that's
what
we
can
see
here.
Animal
Crossing
was
sort
of
misused,
not
only
for
gaming
but
for
having
virtual
weddings
birthday
parties.
A
This
is
World
of
Warcraft,
actually
at
large
memorial
service
for
famous
World
of
Warcraft.
The
player
who
died
during
the
pandemic
and
those
are
just
really
powerful
tools
to
bring
us
together
and
something
else
changed.
I
think
thanks
to
the
pandemic,
but
basically
also
like
the
game.
Space
was
brought
to
the
broader
public.
So
on
this
slide
you
can
actually
see
how
the
World
of
Sports
all
of
a
sudden
made
use
of
Esports
and
I.
A
I
have
a
group
of
around
14
people
working
with
me,
and
this
was
also,
of
course,
something
which
is
very
difficult
to
handle
during
the
pandemic,
but
also
us,
we
learned
to
work
with
game-like
Technologies
to
still
spend
time
online
together.
So
on
this
slide,
you
can
actually
see
us
celebrating
Christmas
together
playing
Among
Us.
They
have
still
a
good
social
time
or
arranging
our
Virtual
Office
Space
to
sort
of
still
be
next
to
each
other
in
a
virtual
office
in
this
game-like
environment
called
gather
town.
A
One
thing
which
I
was
most
scared
of
were
my
lectures,
so
I
really
love
to
teach,
and
this
is
something
which
was
always
really
important
to
me
and
the
way
how
I
wanted
to
I
don't
know
have
a
little
bit
of
an
impact
in
our
world.
That
I
can
spread
my
knowledge
and
the
way
I
teach
is
usually
very
interactive,
so
I
usually
I
have
in
my
course
it's
a
I
teach
different
subjects.
One
of
them
is
game.
A
Development
I
have
also
like
more
mathematical
Fields,
but
in
my
game
design
course,
they're
140
people
and
the
thing
I
love
when
I
teach
at
a
university
that
usually
the
doors
are
open
for
everyone,
so
those
lectures
are
open
and
I
knew
that
people
who
were
also
not
studying
at
our
University
would
just
join
because
they
wanted
together,
like
gain
a
little
bit
of
this
knowledge,
be
part
of
the
lectures
and
just
maybe
listen
and,
and
the
next
thing
I
always
wanted
to
talk
and
discuss
with
my
students.
I
know
with
140
students.
A
This
is
sometimes
a
little
bit
challenging,
but
you
can
still
like
you
can
ask
him
to
raise
their
hands
to
get
a
little
bit
of
opinions.
You
can
start
small
discussions
also
with
140
people
and
I
was
really
scared
that
I'm
gonna
lose
all
of
the
things.
I
love
about
teaching
teaching,
this
openness,
this
interactive
character,
and
that's
why
I
moved
to
Twitch.
A
So
twitch
is
originally
a
gaming
platform
usually
used
by
traditionally
used
by
Gamers,
and
they
play
video
games
and
other
people
come
to
the
chat
and
watch
this
person,
it's
very
similar
to
going
to
a
football
stadium.
For
instance,
there's
also
like
you
have
someone
like
competing
down
there
or
playing
a
game,
and
then
there
are
people
sitting
in
the
stadium
and
watching
and
what
you
can
see
in
this
slide.
A
This
is
this
is
me,
so
maybe
just
to
explain
this
a
little
bit
and
in
the
middle
you
can
actually
see
how
I
am
streaming
my
lecture
content.
You
can
see
this.
This
tiny
image
of
me
at
the
bottom
right
so
I
always
try
to
still
have
both
to
have
this
lecture
slides
on
the
one
hand,
but
also
to
see
me
my
reactions
and
I
use
a
software
called
OBS.
For
that
and
on
the
right
hand,
side
you
can
actually
see
how
people
are
interacting
with
me
through
the
chat
or
with
each
other.
A
They
add
emojis.
They
they
talk
about
the
content.
They
talk
to
them
with
each
other
and
that's
quite
interesting
to
observe
the
nature
of
twitch
is
very
Interactive.
So
people
come
there
not
to
only
talk
to
the
streamer,
but
also
to
other
people
in
the
chat
and
in
conversations
become
very,
very
Vivid,
and
so
what
happened
so
I
moved
at
the
very
first
lockdown
I
pulled
a
lot
of
all-nighters
because
I
felt
like
it
was
like
pretty
much
at
the
same
time
and
I
try
to
move
all
my
lectures
to
Twitch
I.
A
A
I
will
talk
about
this
later
and
what
happened
instead
of
140
students
at
the
same
time,
in
my
lecture,
I
had
400
students
sitting
there
from
all
around
the
world
I'm
talking
with
me
about
the
content
discussing
with
each
other
the
lectures
and
instead
of
let's
say,
30
minutes
of
content.
All
of
a
sudden,
the
same
lecture
would
last
90
minutes.
A
Why
is
that?
Because
there
were
so
many
interactions
in
the
chat,
so
many
more
questions
I
ever
got
in
lecture
hall,
so
many
more
discussions
with
me
or
with
each
other,
so
many
more
good
examples
they
wanted
to
put,
and
this
this
was
the
best
teaching
experience
for
me
that
all
of
a
sudden,
everyone
got
really
excited,
dared
to
ask
questions.
A
They
might
not
have
there
to
ask
in
a
real
lecture
in
a
on-site
lecture-
and
this
was
my
my
best
teaching
experience
and
now
I
want
to
discuss
a
little
bit
the
potential
for
Twitch
in
general.
What
we
can
see
here
in
this
graph
that
actually
similar
to
the
games
industry
also
twitch
got
quite
a
boost
in
terms
of
viewership,
but
also
people
who
are
streaming
on
Twitch.
So
we
can
see
that
the
pandemic
had
quite
an
influence
here
and
while
traditional
TV
mediums
are
slowly
losing
viewerships
live
streaming.
A
Services
such
as
twitch
and
YouTube
are
constantly
gaining,
because
the
interesting
thing
is
it's
somehow
like
everyone
is
all
of
a
sudden.
Their
own
show
their
own
TV
show,
and
this
is
this-
reflects
really
a
lot
how
the
internet
in
general
was
reshaped
over
the
past
years,
because
if
you
look
back
back
back
rep
how
the
web
started,
it
was
just
a
few
people
putting
content
onto
web
pages.
Just
a
few
people
and
a
lot
I
mean
back
then,
was
not
a
lot
yet,
but
a
lot
of
people
reading
content
with
Web
2.0.
A
However,
it
changed
already
because
all
of
a
sudden
we
wanted
to
become
the
creators.
I
was
able
to
create
my
first
homepage
on
I,
don't
know
with
a
few
lines
of
code,
then
I
it
was.
It
became
so
much
easier
and
with
everyone
got
their
home,
which
is
on
MySpace,
everyone
got
their
photo
galleries.
On
Facebook
now
everyone
became
becomes
a
video
editor
with
Tick
Tock
and
with
YouTube.
It's
becoming
crazy,
incredible,
easy
to
also
be
part
and
and
share
content.
A
We
are
all
becoming
content
creators
and
with
twitch
and
with
livestream
Services
right
like
YouTube
live,
we
all
become
our
own
TV
show
hosts,
and
this
really
also
reflects
in
in
so
many
different
fields
like
here.
This
is
how
the
Science
and
Technology
realm
on
Twitch
was
pushed.
You
can
also
see
it
which
is
becoming
so
much
more
than
only
talking
about
games.
It's
cooking
shows
it's
podcasts,
it's
again,
people
talking
about
science
or
what
we
can
see.
A
So
they're
really
lovely
streams
doing
that,
but
then,
of
course,
also
to
spread
knowledge.
Many
companies
are
out
there,
such
as
also
unreal
unity
and
so
and
of
course,
also
GitHub.
What
I
saw
to
actually
use
this
platform
to
to
spread
knowledge
to
talk
about
what
you're
actually
doing?
And
it's
it's
a
very
social
experience.
All
of
a
sudden.
A
It's
basically
peer
programming,
eventually
with
thousands
of
viewers,
and
you
can
also
see
like
the
category
around
software
and
game
developers
had
quite
a
boost
also
a
little
bit
thanks
to
the
pandemic.
But
you
can
see
this
is.
This
is
quite
growing
in
the
last
part.
I
want
to
also
quickly
talk
about
my
personal
experience
in
the
course.
A
What
worked
well
and
what
worked
not
so
well
and
because
I
get
the
question
quite
often,
because
I
taught
game
design
in
on
Twitch,
which
seems
to
be
a
little
bit
more
related
to
yeah
to
the
gaming
platform.
However,
other
colleagues
from
our
University
actually
talked
at
taught
on
on
Twitch
programming,
101.
A
a
course
to
teach
bachelors
in
computer
science.
How
to
program
and
on
this
slide,
I
brought
a
few
statistics
for
you.
This
is
actually
based
on
a
scientific
publication.
We
published
a
couple
of
like
about
one
year
ago
on
a
conference
called
ATC
and
what
you
can
see
here
there
were
way
more
students
in
the
course
on
programming.
However,
it
was
still
so
active.
A
There
were
so
many
unique
Chatters,
so
many
people,
even
like
also
here
so
many
more
viewers
compared
to
to
the
traditional
lecture
so
also
for
teaching
programming
which
has
in
in
that,
like
it's,
not
this
traditional
game
space
I
mean
it
was
a
very,
very
successful
experience
on
Twitch.
What
we
also
tried
to
look
into,
we
were
very
interested
in
terms
of
like
our
students,
who
are
the
demographics
of
our
students
and
if
they
are
used
to
use
twitch
and
what
we
can
see
here
was
like
medium
well
distributed.
So
some
use
twitch.
A
Quite
often,
many
of
them
have
not
used
it
before.
Most
of
them
were
actually
using
it
while
being
locked
in,
and
this
is
relevant
because
you
don't
want
to
exclude
anyone.
One
of
my
fears
was
actually
when
I
moved
my
lectures
to
Twitch
that
I
might
exclude
students
because
they
want
they
don't
want
to
register
to
Twitch
or
they
don't
want
to
use
their
actual
accounts
and
but
what
we
found
that
most
people
locked
in,
which
gives
them
also
the
possibility
to
write
in
the
chat.
A
They
can
always
read
the
chat,
but
only
if
they're
locked
in
they
can
also
write
the
chat,
and
then
we
were
really
interested
in
what
would
they
use
the
chat
for
because,
from
my
experience,
this
interaction
with
the
chat
is
the
most
exciting
thing
for
me
when
teaching
with
twitch,
because
all
of
a
sudden
like
people
are
really
starting
to
discuss
the
content,
and
this
is
the
environment.
I
want
to
create
when,
when
teaching
I
don't
want
to
be
the
person
like
hey
I,
tell
you
what's
right
or
what's
wrong
and
everyone
else
is
listening.
A
I
want
to
have
people
interact
with
me,
for
instance,
like
just
me
sitting
there
like
giving
a
lecture
and
I'm
the
professor
and
I
say:
hey
no,
the
Earth
is
flat
and
then
a
traditional
lecture
hall.
Maybe
everyone
would
would
look
weird,
but
maybe
nobody
would
dare
to
tell
me
that
I'm
wrong,
but
in
a
in
an
interactive
structure
like
on
on
on
Twitch
chat,
all
of
a
sudden
like
so
many
people
would
start
to
argue
or
would
share.
A
Links
would
try
to
prove
me
wrong,
and
this
is
something
which
I
really
like
to
challenge
people
to
think
and
to
discuss
and
yeah,
and
what
we
can
see
here
in
this
slide
that
that
many
people
actually
did
not
only
ask
me
as
a
lecturer
through
the
chat
about
specific
things,
but
actually
use
the
chat,
also
a
lot
to
chat
with
the
others.
We
can
also
see
that
the
that
most
of
the
people
actually
mentioned
that
they
ask
more
questions
compared
to
a
traditional
lecture,
and
this
is
something
which
I
find
super
exciting.
A
Also,
if
you
think,
if
you
do
programming
courses
or
if
you,
if
you
just
share
your
programming
content
on
Twitch,
that
people
might
dare
to
answer,
I
ask
questions
which
they
might
not
ask
and
in
a
different
environment,
they
also
mentioned
that
they
were
not
distracted.
This
was
one
of
our
concerns
too,
that
people
might
got
more
distracted
by
the
chat
and
whatnot
would
not
listen
to
my
lectures
anymore
anymore,
but
this
was
certainly
also
not
the
case.
I
want
to
share
a
few
of
the
advantages
I
see
when
using
twitch
for
different
purposes.
A
So,
for
me,
I'm
I
know
I'm
speaking
from
this
m
Educator's
voice,
because
this
is
the
main
experience
I
made,
even
though,
like
I
also
shared
my
game
development
progresses.
Sometimes
then
I
had
podcast
formats
on
Twitch,
but
I
want
to.
Like
summarize
a
little
bit
where
I
see
the
Potentials
in
which,
on
the
one
hand,
this
interactive
character
of
twitch
is
very
strong.
A
If
you
come
to
a
chat,
then
there's
already
interaction
going
on
people
will
start
to
interact
also
with
the
others
or
with
the
USS
streamer
I
think
it's
very
important
to
also
think
of
different
features:
how
to
eventually
encourage
your
viewers
to
interact
with
you
or
with
others.
So,
for
instance,
on
my
slides,
I
constantly
had
all
the
questions,
sometimes
where
I
would
ask
him
hey?
Who
of
you?
A
Has
this
experience
then
put
a
one
into
the
chat,
if
not
put
a
zero
into
the
chat
to
get
them
started
with
the
interactions
and
then
also
all
the
the
interactions
are
live
and
synchronous.
It
is
for
me,
it
was
a
little
bit
easier
because
I
had
a
streaming
experience
in
the
past,
so
I
was
streaming.
My
game
experiences
so
I
was
able
to
sort
of,
or
use
to
read
the
chat
while
I'm
playing
games
at
the
same
time.
So
it
was
also
easier
for
me
to
do
this
during
my
lectures.
A
A
It's
open
to
everyone.
I
already
mentioned
this,
that
I
really
love
open
content
and
open
knowledge
of
medication,
and
this
is
for
me,
like
the
best
case,
that
that
twitch
is
open
to
everyone
and
it's
quite
quite
known
as
a
platform.
There
are
also
downsides.
Of
course,
many
people
do
not
use,
of
course,
which
is
absolutely
fine
and
important.
Not
the
real
names
and
I
would
never
force
my
students
to
use
the
real
names
on
the
platform
like
twitch.
So
often
it's
not
really
personal,
which
also
invites
trolls
and
so
and
so
forth.
A
You
don't
have
a
voice
chat,
nice
alternatives
for
smaller
communities
are
still
zoom
and
WebEx,
and
and
so
on
and
so
forth,
because
you
can
actually
use
similar
techniques
which
do
work
for
you
on
Twitch,
but
in
in
a
platform
like
WebEx,
where
you
really
encourage
people
hey
who
believes
this
works
and
everyone
puts
a
one
into
there
or
zero.
So
you
can
really
try
to
also
have
this
interactive
nature
there,
and
even
eventually,
also
connect
through
voice
chat.
A
Of
course,
there's
always
the
technical
potential
issues
I
recommend
using
software
Technologies
like
like
OBS
works
for
me
quite
a
while.
Quite
well,
but
again,
there
are
many
tools
out
there
who
help
you
streaming
seriousness,
the
twitch
the
nature
of
twitch
is
at
the
end
of
the
day.
It's
it's
a
platform
originating
from
from
the
game,
Space,
of
course.
Sometimes
especially
if
it's
open
to
everyone,
it
will
still
invite
trolls.
Eventually
there
are
still
commercials.
A
There
are
many
many
potential
issues,
so
I
would
really
recommend
training
a
little
bit
before
you
actually
go
full
life
with
your
audience
that
you
make
Smalls
dreams
and
see
a
little
bit
how
twitch
works
and
definitely
use
you
spots
and
for
my
lectures,
because
I
knew
that
I
have
a
lot
of
students.
It
was
very
important
that
I
have
moderations
as
well,
so
I
had
like
moderators
in
the
chat
who
make
sure
that
no
illegal
content
is
posted
or
no
harassing
content,
and
so
and
so
forth.
Videos
are
nice,
but
they're
limited.
A
Don't
know
your
camera,
for
instance,
but
again
on
chat,
Bots
and
experimenting
a
little
bit
with
that
can
also
make
it
a
very,
very
safe
environment
as
well.
Then,
in
terms
of
interactions,
it's
important
to
keep
people
engaged
so
to
motivate
them
to
ask
them.
Questions
I
tend
to
ask
questions
in
a
game
lecture.
A
What
games
do
you
think
would
fit
this
specific
game
mechanic
or
who
believes
this
game
element
can
be
found
in
this
specific
game
and
I
motivate
them
to
answer
with
ones
and
servers,
for
instance,
if
they
believe
or
don't
believe,
I
use,
quizzes
and
so
and
so
forth.
So
really
try
to
make
a
lot
of
interaction
happening
because
as
soon
as
some
of
your
new
joints,
they
see
many
things
are
going
on
in
this
stream.
A
In
terms
of
technical
issues,
I
did
upgrade
my
my
internet
connection
specifically
for
streaming
from
home,
because
if
you
want
to
have
a
well-working
setup,
even
eventually,
with
a
nice
camera
with
a
proper
light
setup,
but
I
think
the
most
important
thing
is
really
that
the
internet
is
stable
and
people
hear
you
well.
So
a
good
microphone
would
be
lovely
and
definitely
make
tests
before
you
really
stream
stream
to
your
full
audience,
make
small
streams
first
experiment
a
little
bit
and
of
course,
like
the
stream
organization,
some
things
like
again.