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Email

nansenb@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Associate Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems
Education
PhD
The University of Melbourne
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
Deakin University
ORCID

0000-0001-6215-8768

A/Prof Bjorn Nansen

Associate Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems

151 Scholarly works
11 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    From Quarters Per Minute to Daily Quests and Seasons: Developer Perspectives on Temporal Design in Video Games
    DOI: 10.1145/3772318.3790636
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Making finance fun: Playful affordances and gamified interface designs in children’s FinTech apps
    DOI: 10.1177/09075682261437591
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Do-It-Yourself Commemoration of the Dead
  • 2019

    Research Grant

    The Future Cemetery
  • 2019

    Book

    Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured
    DOI: 10.4324/9780429456404
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    Disposal of the Dead: Beyond Burial and Cremation
  • 2018

    Book Chapter

    The Social Life of the Dead and the Leisured Life of the Living Online
    DOI: 10.5876/9781607327295.c010
Bjorn Nansen

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2016
Digital media research fellow, Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI)
2012
Discovery early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Australian Research Council
2009
Best Paper Award: OzCHI Open 24_7 Conference, November 2009 OZCHI
2005
Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship University Of Melbourne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Evaluating Time in Play and Temporal Satisfaction: Time-Centric Language in Video Game User Reviews on Steam
    DOI: 10.1145/3764687.3764693
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Public discussion of family location tracking apps: a cross-platform analysis of social media posts about Life360
    DOI: 10.1080/13614568.2024.2437399
  • 2024

    Journal article

    The surveillance, gamification and datafication of children’s finance: a feature and tagline analysis of child finance apps
    DOI: 10.1108/YC-01-2024-1954
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Stories and Data: Australian Musicians Navigating the Spotify for Artists Platform
    DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2023.2286569
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Representing alkaline hydrolysis: a material-semiotic analysis of an alternative to burial and cremation
    DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2023.2174838
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Reimagining memorial spaces through digital technologies: A typology of CemTech
    DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2023.2276308
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium
    DOI: 10.1177/15274764221134520
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Media, mortality and necro-technologies: Eulogies for dead media
    DOI: 10.1177/14614448211027959

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