First Person Scholar officially announced the instalment of a new Editor in Chief and two Co-managing Editors, steering the middle-state publication into exciting directions and carrying on with the great legacy established by their predecessors.
In her latest article published on Loading..., Lindsay Meaning analyzes the adaptation of the novel Kim (1901), by Rudyard Kipling, into a video game by the same name, Kim (2016). The article "Adaptations of Empire: Kipling’s Kim, Novel and Game" focuses on the ways the video game deals with the underlying imperial and colonial ideologies of the book.
New GI member research published in Frontiers in Computer Science shows that personalized gameful systems lead to higher task performance.
Dr. Lennart Nacke, Director of the HCI Games Group, gave a keynote speech, "The Loot Box of Gameful User Experience", for the virtual Mensch und Computer 2020 conference, Germany's largest HCI conference with 785 participants globally.
Two Games Institute teams were selected to be finalists for the CHI Play 2020 Student Game Design Competition. Competing among 8 other teams, Tina Chan and Adam Leung will present Illuminate, and Joseph Tu and Ekaterina Durmanova will present Curioscape.
An article by CBC Kitchener-Waterloo features a game by Brian Cullen, former Games Institute postdoctoral fellow (PDF), and his team at Fluxscopic, a Kitchener-based game studio.
Dr. Lennart Nacke, Director of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Games Group, was interviewed by CTV News to comment on how a pair from Guelph have built an online community through Twitch to connect with people during COVID.
Dr. Nacke's work involves researching and designing innovative gamification applications that push the boundaries of what we can do with games. In the interview, Nacke commented on the social power of games to bring people together.
A new paper by Drs.
Energize is an educational tool for understanding how to plan and implement sustainable energy solutions. It represents the potential that games have for teaching people complex ideas, like environmental realities, by demonstrating the obstacles, considerations, and possibilities involved. AC Atienza, English graduate student, collaborated with the Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) via a Mitacs partnership and co-op term to turn their prototype and concept of Energize into a fully-realized game.
Energize is an educational tool for understanding how to plan and implement sustainable energy solutions. It represents the potential that games have for teaching people complex ideas, like environmental realities, by demonstrating the obstacles, considerations, and possibilities involved. AC Atienza, English graduate student, collaborated with the Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) via a Mitacs partnership and co-op term to turn their prototype and concept of Energize into a fully-realized game.