News archive - January 2020

Friday, January 31, 2020

Haptics Computing Lab launches new website

The Haptic Computing Lab (HCL), led by Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Prof. Oliver Schneider, launched their website this week. HCL is a group of interdisciplinary scholars from the University of Waterloo, joined in their collective goal to research haptic computing tools and touch systems to better understand how to assist the creation, deployment, and study of haptic technologies.

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Prof Aynur Kadir presents "Collaborative Indigenous Media: Participatory design for Indigenous Art and Cultural Heritage"

Dr. Aynur Kadir, GI faculty member and Assistant Professor from Communication Arts, presented "Collaborative Indigenous Media: Participatory design for Indigenous Art and Cultural Heritage" at Waterloo Women's Wednesdays event about Community-Based Digital Storytelling.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Toben Racicot leads "Creativity in the Classroom" Workshop for the Centre for Teaching Excellence

Toben Racicot, host of the Games Institute Podcast and PhD candidate in English, will be presenting "Creativity in the Classroom" for the Centre for Teaching Excellence "Special Topics in Teaching" Workshop on Thursday, January 30.

Friday, January 24, 2020

Watch now: GRADflix videos by GI members about AI and VR research goals

GI members Marvin Pafla, Systems Design Engineering Master's student, and Samira Mehrabi, Kinesiology PhD student, were finalists in the 2020 GRADflix competition, hosted by the office of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs.

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Introducing the Games and Narrative reading group

The interdisciplinary Games and Narrative reading group is a newly launched initiative, imagined by Dr. Ken Hirschkop, Professor of English Language and Literature. With Dr. Hirschkop's guidance, graduate students who join the reading group will explore how the fields of Narrative Theory and Game Studies intersect and inform one another.