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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/building-connective-ethnogr
 aphy-children-engaged-digital-age
LOCATION:The Games Institute EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West Wa
 terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Building a Connective Ethnography with Children Engaged in the Digi
 tal\nAge
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Children are seeking their place in contemporary digital cultur
 es\,\nnotably through the use of mobile devices\, playing a variety of gam
 es\nwith friends and accessing social networking platforms\, resulting in\
 ninterconnected performances in the digital setting. Therefore\, it was\nn
 ecessary to base it on connective ethnography to track the\ninteractions o
 f a group of children between physical and digital\nspaces during playtime
  with peers.\n\n_Register with Ticketfi!_\n[https://www.ticketfi.com/event
 /5563/building-a-connective-ethnography-with-children-engaged-in-the-digit
 al-age]\n\nThis event will be held in HYBRID format. Please join us in-per
 son at\nthe Games Institute\, EC1 at the University of Waterloo or virtual
 ly\nthrough Microsoft Teams.\n\nSPEAKER: Bruna Oliveira\n\nBRUNA is a Ph.
 D. candidate in Education at the Federal University of\nSergipe and a visi
 ting researcher at the University of Waterloo. She\nhas been researching t
 opics involving children's engagement with\ndigital games\, children's pla
 yful experiences with digital\ntechnologies\, children as content producer
 s\, and research\nmethodologies involving children in the digital era.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231031T150000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/case-paratopian-design
LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa
 terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:The Case for Paratopian Design
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:What if we could make complex social and cultural questions pla
 yable?\nAnd what if we could do so through interactions with familiar digi
 tal\ninterfaces set in alternative presents and near futures? The work I\n
 will discuss sits at the intersection between the design traditions of\nsp
 eculative and critical design on the one hand\, and the philosophies\nand 
 best practices of game design\, playful media and interaction\ndesign on t
 he other.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231004T090000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/workshop-physiological-meas
 ures-games-and-vr-novel-tools-and
LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa
 terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Workshop on Physiological Measures for Games and VR: Novel Tools an
 d\nApproaches
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:The utilization of physiological measures in games and virtual 
 reality\n(VR) has garnered significant attention in recent years. This hyb
 rid\npanel covers the exploration of biometrics (or physiological measures
 )\nin game user research\, driven by advancements in sensing technologies\
 nand the increased accessibility of signal processing tools.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231023T110000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/workshop-building-equitable
 -and-sustainable-game-development
LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa
 terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Workshop on Building Equitable and Sustainable Game Development\nEd
 ucation
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:With recent waves of layoffs\, high-profile workplace harassmen
 t cases\,\nand a notoriously short career length for gender minorities and
  people\nof colour\, the transition of new workers into the game industry\
 ninvolves navigating a spate of barriers to equity and success that\nhave 
 been understudied in academic research. This panel talks about\n\"The Firs
 t Three Years\"\, an ongoing longitudinal study of graduates of\ngame prog
 rams in Canada and the United States\, following the journey\nof 207 stude
 nts as they move into the game industry.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T110000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/panel-emerging-voices-black
 -games-studies
LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa
 terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Panel on Emerging Voices in Black Games Studies
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:This panel highlights emerging scholars in Black game studies.\
 nPanelists will present recent and/or ongoing work\, sharing a glimpse\nof
  the emerging research questions animating the field. Topics include\nBlac
 k worldbuilding in and across games (Fletcher)\, perceptions of\nBlack mal
 e exceptionalism in gaming cultures (Dashiell)\, and the\nrelationship bet
 ween avatar representation and Black user experience\nin social VR (DeVeau
 x).
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230810T140000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/student-speaker-series-spee
 ch-human-agent-interaction-nima
LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa
 terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Student Speaker Series: Speech in Human-Agent Interaction with Nima
 \nZargham
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Due to technological advancements\, communicating with computer
  systems\nusing natural language has become a casual phenomenon. Speech-ba
 sed\nsystems\, like Siri or Cortana\, have become widely popular among peo
 ple\ndue to their convenience. Speech interaction encompasses a social\nco
 mponent as it reflects the fundamental human capacity for\ncommunication a
 nd enables interpersonal engagement through verbal\nexchange. This makes h
 uman-agent interaction an essential topic of\nresearch in the field of hum
 an-computer interaction.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230809T110000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/panel-physiological-measure
 s-games-and-vr-novel-tools-and
LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa
 terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:[PANEL] Physiological Measures for Games and VR: Novel Tools and\nA
 pproaches
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT CORRESPONDS WITH AN IN-PERSON WORKSHOP. SEPARATE\nRE
 GISTRATION REQUIRED AND SEATING IS LIMITED.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/indigenous-research-and-epi
 stemology-discussion
LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 175 Columbia Street West 1323 Waterloo ON N2L 
 5Z5 Canada
SUMMARY:Indigenous Research and Epistemology - a discussion
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:How should we conduct research in cooperation and partnership w
 ith\nIndigenous communities? What does it mean for Indigenous scholars and
 \nstudents to do research within the colonial structures and settler\nepis
 temologies of Western universities? The panelists\, consisting of\nIndigen
 ous students and researchers as well as settlers working with\nand for Ind
 igenous communities\, will share their perspectives and\nexperiences on th
 ese questions. They will begin a conversation to help\nus consider these a
 nd other issues related to Indigeneity in the\ncontext of Western academic
  cultures and practices\, and invite\nquestions and discussion to develop 
 our capacity to Indigenize\nresearch and scholarship.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230510T130000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/custers-revenge-red-dead-re
 demption-changing-language
LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 175 Columbia Street West 1323 Waterloo ON N2L 
 5Z5 Canada
SUMMARY:From Custer's Revenge to Red Dead Redemption: Changing the Langu
 age\nof Indigenous Representation in Video Games
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Bird will emphasize the two types of language taking place 
 in\nvideo games: mechanical\, coded language\, and visual\, representation
 al\nlanguage. She presents the importance of teaching the history of\nIndi
 genous representation in games and will break down various\nexamples from 
 Custer’s Revenge to the Mortal Kombat and Red Dead\nRedemption series to
  demonstrate these types of gamic language.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230425T130000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/just-relationships-research
 -panel
LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 175 Columbia Street West 1323 Waterloo ON N2L 
 5Z5 Canada
SUMMARY:Just Relationships for Research Panel
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:We are increasingly asked to envision and implement respectful 
 and\nnon-extractive research involving marginalized communities. But we ar
 e\nrarely challenged to bring those principles to bear in our own\nresearc
 h groups\, where asymmetries of institutional power between\ncolleagues\, 
 students\, and staff are normalized. This interdisciplinary\npanel will di
 scuss how to foster and maintain just relationships among\nresearchers\, w
 ith a focus on the principles and practices animating\nnon-extractive stud
 ent-supervisor relationships.
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