A new
job listing from
Valve Corporation seeks to hire a psychologist to help them develop new
technologies (thanks
GameSpot). They list various areas a qualified candidate could help with,
though it doesn't say whether their new hire could help uncover the reasons
behind their aversion to the number three:
Here are a few ways you could
utilize your knowledge of experimental design, research methods, statistics, and
human behavior to help us:
- Craft compelling gameplay experiences for future Valve titles
- Provide insights on human behavior to improve customer experiences on
Steam, our game distribution platform
- Conduct statistical analyses on Valve's gameplay, financial, and company
data to identify patterns of behavior
- Research compelling new hardware technologies
- Design experiments to evaluate various gameplay hypotheses and design
choices
- Improve existing playtesting methodologies
- Develop innovative ways of acquiring data to answer questions about
Valve's products and business practices