Bob De Schutter

De Schutter was one of the speakers at South by Southwest in 2013 in a panel on "Designing Games for Realism". He spoke at TEDxMiami University on April 25, 2015. He presented at the main conference of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with a talk called "Beyond Ageism: Designing Meaningful Games for an Older Audience". He has organized several workshops on game design for older adults.

In 2014, De Schutter became the founding president of the Gerontoludic Society.

De Schutter founded the Flemish Chapter of the Digital Games Research Association and chaired its executive board until May 2013. He is an honorary member of DiGRA Flanders.

Since August 2013, he is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor at the College of Education, Health & Society and the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). He is also a research fellow at the Scripps Gerontology Center.

From 2007 until 2012 De Schutter was a researcher, teacher and game designer for the e-Media Lab of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (campus Group T), where he worked on games to facilitate inter-generational knowledge transfer, rehabilitate psycho-motor skills, train entrepreneurial skills, sensitize university students on urban mobility for the disabled and teach the psychology of game design. At Miami University, he worked on an interactive app about Freedom Summer.

De Schutter graduated from the Karel de Grote-Hogeschool (Antwerp, Belgium) in 2003 with an MA in Visual Arts, and in 2011 he received his Ph.D. in the Social Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). His doctoral thesis was on "The meaning of digital games to an older audience".