Rina Wehbe, Games Institute resident and Computer Science PhD student, attended and mentored at the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) in Houston, Texas. Her travels were sponsored by the Women in Computer Science (WiCS) group at UWaterloo, organized by Joanne Atlee.
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.
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.
Cayley MacArthur, Systems Design PhD student, and Mark Hancock, Associate Director of the Games Institute, are co-organizing a workshop in collaboration with six other international scholars. The workshop, entitled "Gaming with the subaltern: A workshop on diversity and inclusion in games," is scheduled for CHI Play 2018 in Melbourne, Australia.
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.
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.