Bingxiao Luo

Artist, Researcher, Game Designer
research interests: Death, mourning, games
orcid: 0009-0004-7362-9683
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Bingxiao Luo is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University, Finland. Her research focuses on death and mourning cultures in the context of game design, as well as on creating death-themed games as a solo developer.

 

Her main work is the game BETWEEN, which explores mourning interactions in a virtual graveyard and offers an aesthetic experience related to death. Her future projects will digitize distinct cultural mourning traditions through game design, starting with Japanese, Chinese, and Finnish cultures.

 

She published Unraveling Grief: Design Space Analysis of Death-Themed Games at DiGRA 2025, where she explores how grief and mourning are represented in games that focus on death expression. Her design process and reflections behind BETWEEN are also presented as an extended abstract at CHI 2025 — Between: Easing the Fear of Death Through Peaceful Play.

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  • RAD2025 (2025) author(s): Priska Falin, Alyssa Ridder, Song Xiaran, Agnieszka Pokrywka, Samar Zureik, Bingxiao Luo published in: Aalto University
    The Research Through Art & Design (RAD) course for doctoral researchers at Aalto Arts introduces a variety of approaches, methodologies, issues, and concerns in research through practice. In this course, research through practice refers to a broad continuum of artistic research approaches, arts-based, practice-led, and practice-based research approaches, including constructive design research approaches relevant across practices in Aalto University; School of Arts, Design and Architecture. This exposition was created within a Research Catalogue Workshop offered as an additional part of the main course. During this part of the course, the participants are familiarised with the Research Catalogue as a platform and learn how to use it for creating expositions. During the workshop, participants work on their page within this group exposition, based on their current doctoral research or a topic that inspired them during the lectures. The main content is the workshop participants' individual pages within this exposition.
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