On April 19th, the Games Institute (GI) celebrated the conclusion of its 2022 seed grant program with “Disrupting Disciplinary Divides for a Digital Future” – a research symposium. The symposium not only demonstrated the outcomes of 8 separate research projects but also what makes the GI stand out as a unique research ecosystem.
Master’s student Ekaterina Durmanova (Ekat) has been a part of the GI community in more ways than one since 2016.
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Brianna Wiens took an unconventional path to the GI starting as a PhD student at York University who visited the GI as part of a crew filming a documentary about qCollaborative (qLab)—a feminist design research lab with members from multiple Canadian universities, including UW.
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Katja Rogers (HCI Games Lab) first met her supervisor and GI faculty member, Dr. Lennart Nacke (Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business), at CHI Play in 2016.