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Tina Chan for TEDxUW: Bandaids for Mental Health

Monday, October 15, 2018 by Marisa Benjamin

Tina Chan, GI resident and Masters of Science candidate in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, was a speaker at this year's TEDxUW conference. She took the stage to share the story of how she came to develop the Panic Anxiety Stress Support (PASS) kit.

Docu-video from VR Workshop with Gada Jane and SpiderWebShow Performance

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 by Marisa Benjamin

September 14 and 15, 2018, four playwrights came to the GI for an intensive workshop on VR filmmaking. The workshop was hosted by Gada Jane, Research Associate at the GI, and Michael Wheeler, Co-Creator and Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow Performance.

The playwrights were Erin Brandenburg, playwright and director, Rosamund Small, playwright and writer, Nicolas Billon, playwright and screenwriter, and Ahmad Meree, playwright and performer.

VR Working Group predicting motion sickness in VR

Monday, October 1, 2018 by Marisa Benjamin

Last week, neurophysiologists and VR researchers at the University of Waterloo started making headlines because of their findings on how to predict which VR users might be more susceptible to cybersickness.

Séamas Weech, Jessy Varghese, and Michael Barnett-Cowan, members of the VR working group at the Games Institute, co-authored a paper entitled "Estimating the sensorimotor components of cybersickness" published in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

Tina Chan speaks to the media about Mental Health

Monday, April 22, 2019 by Games Institute

Tina Chan, M.Sc. candidate in Applied Health Sciences has been speaking with the media recently as her work on mental health support and mental health gameful design gains traction.

BBC Toronto Interview with Dan Lytwyn

April 12, 2019

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