News archive - 2018

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Sarah Stang at ReFig 2018

Sarah Stang, Essays Editor for First Person Scholar and PhD student in the Communication and Culture program at York University, delivered a co-presentation with Dr. Aaron Trammel at ReFig 2018.

Their presentation, entitled "The Misogynist Ludic Bestiary: How Women are Made Monstrous in Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)" was a condensed version of a longer article the two co-authored:

Monday, November 19, 2018

Quantum Cats at the Ontario Science Centre

Quantum Cats (2015), a game that allows players to learn and engage with concepts from quantum physics, is currently featured at the Ontario Science Centre exhibit "Quantum: The Exhibition," an exhibit created by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC).

Monday, November 19, 2018

Tina Chan presents a paper on gamification and mental health at the Inter-University Workshop (IUW)

Tina Chan, Masters of Science candidate in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, is presenting a paper at IUW entitled "Designing for Engagement in Peer to Peer Support Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Gamification and the Proteus Effect".

Chan's research draws from crowdsourcing studies that combine online peer to peer (P2P) support with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), as well as the Proteus Effect.

Friday, November 16, 2018

Caroline Wong at the Inter-University Workshop (IUW): Interacting with data through touch-enabled systems

Caroline Wong will be presenting a poster at IUW, 2018 at the University of Toronto. Wong is a Master's student of Management Sciences studying the benefits of touch-enabled systems that improve our interaction with large datasets.

Wong argues that making data visualization tools touch-enabled can make personal data more meaningful and accessible to non-experts rather than technologies that only allow for point-and-click.

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Marco Moran-Ledesma on 3D Printing in VR at the Inter-University Workshop (IUW)

Marco Moran-Ledesma, a System Design Engineering Master's student, will be presenting a poster at the Inter-University Workshop (IUW) at the University of Toronto, Nov. 17. In this poster, he outlines his preliminary research on a system he proposes to improve the VR experience.