Mr Michael Saiger

Research Assistant, Research Assistant (Mental Health & Wellbeing)

email: Michael.Saiger@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Biography

I am a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow. My research interests focus on designing and evaluating experiences of digital schools, with a particular interest in games. I am interested in how we approach the designs that consider users voice and how we evaluate digital tools in terms of their usability, accessibility and intended experience. I have a keen interest in digital tool use in third sectors such as health and wellbeing, education and skills development.

I am currently contributing towards two projects:

Feasibility of Effective, Fast, Embedded Clinical Tools (EFECT) - exploring digital tools feasibility in wider NHS use
School Attachment Monitor (SAM) – Evaluating the user experience and deployability of a game based approach to attachment assessment.

I completed an undergraduate degree in Game Design and Production Management at Abertay University in 2015. I completed a masters of research in Digital Health and Wellness at University of Strathclyde in 2017. In-between studies, I have worked in the Video Game industry as both a designer and quality assurance tester before moving into a quality assurance consultant and project management role for digital technology. I started a PhD at the University of York and Queen Mary University London as part of the intelligent games and games intelligence (iGGi) scholarship.

Research interests

Digital tools for third sector
User experience methods and evaluation
Game-based solutions
Co-design and PPIE
Inclusive methodologies
Interaction design

Publications

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Number of items: 6.

2025

Klassen, Robert M., Wang, Hui, Cutting, Joe, Thompson-Lee, Sophie, Snell, Rebecca J. S., Huat See, Beng and Saiger, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2852-2145 (2025) Digital innovations in teacher recruitment: an experimental study. Computers and Education, 239, 105450. (doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2025.105450)

Cutting, Joe, Klassen, Robert M., Saiger, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2852-2145, Thompson-Lee, Sophie and Snell, Rebecca J.S. (2025) Exploring player experience factors for designing persuasive recruitment games. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, (Accepted for Publication)

Saiger, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2852-2145, Aleid, Yara, Minnis, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-8945, Vinciarelli, Alessandro ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9048-0524 and Brewster, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-3899 (2025) "SAM" - School Attachment Monitor for the Assessment of Attachment in Children Aged 4-8. In: IDC '25: Interaction Design and Children, Reykjavik, Iceland, 23-26 June 2025, pp. 752-756. ISBN 9798400714733 (doi: 10.1145/3713043.3731476)

2024

Gega, Lina and Saiger, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2852-2145 (2024) Use of technology in brief interventions. In: Davis III, Thompson E. and Storch, Eric A. (eds.) Brief CBT and Science-Based Tailoring for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults. Series: CBT: science into practice. Springer: Cham, pp. 293-309. ISBN 9783031607455 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-60746-2_16)