The Games Institute acknowledges that we are living and working on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (also known as Neutral), Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.
Engineering
Guillaume Besacier was a post-doctoral fellow in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). During his Ph.D. at the Université Paris-Sud (France), supervised by Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and Frédéric Vernier, he worked with interactive tabletop computers and designed new interaction techniques to use a tabletop more effectively and easily, while being compatible with existing WIMP interfaces.
Guillaume is particularly interested in computer-supported collocated cooperation, collaborative learning from each-other, Web 2.0 collaboration, collaborative games and other forms of lightweight cooperation, and the interactions to support this. In a previous life, Dr. Besacier was a software engineer. He's still a little bit of a geek because of that.
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo