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Gateway for Enterprises to Discover Innovation (GEDI) presents the culmination of their 6-part event series, Post-COVID-19 Reboot...

"Rebooting with Research: Our virtual future" will take place June 25, 2020, at 1pm, featuring a fully-packed GI member panel. Dr. Neil Randall, Games Institute Executive Director and Chair of the Council for Responsible Innovation and Technology, moderates the event.

Expert panelists include:

This week, our Research Spotlight blog features work by Rina Wehbe, PhD student from the Cheriton School of Computer Science, and collaborators Terence Dickson, Anastasia Kuzminykh, Lennart E. Nacke, and Edward Lank. Originally published for the CHI 2020 proceedings, this work looks at player perceptions of personal space on large, multi-touch displays.

Pamela Maria Schmidt, currently Research Projects Facilitator at the Games Institute, received the English Co-op Report Award in recognition of her significant contribution to our community during her co-op terms.

We turned the insights from Dr. Shana MacDonald's talk "Publishing in the Humanities" into a handy toolkit, suitable for an interdisciplinary audience. In convenient PDF form, we hope this toolkit helps to break down the mystique of publishing and show you that you're not alone.

The GI Game Jam returns virtually for four days, June 25th - June 28th. 

For the 1st time ever, the entire event is online.

Build a game with your team, join a thriving community & have lots of fun. Check out our website for more information or visit our Eventbrite to register!

Seven GI faculty members are among receipients of Outstanding Performance Awards for 2019, awarded to them by the University of Waterloo.

A study by Marcela Bomfim and Drs. Jim Wallace, Sharon Kirkpatrick, and Lennart Nacke received an Honourable Mention Award from CHI 2020, one of the most prestigious Human-Computer Interaction conferences in the world. The article, Food Literacy while Shopping: Making Informed Food Decisions with a Situated Gameful App, presents findings about how a gamified food literacy app (Pirate Bri’s Grocery Adventure) improved participant’s healthy eating behaviours.

A study by Erin Kim and Dr. Oliver Schneider received an Honourable Mention Award from CHI 2020, one of the most prestigious Human-Computer Interaction conferences in the world.

Alex Fleck, English PhD student, appears in the latest edition of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics for a book review he wrote about “The MetaInterface: The Art of Platforms, c

Join us online on May 19th to support the UW Touchlab and HCI Games Group at their mini CHI event, WatCHI 2020

Due to CHI 2020's cancelation - one of the biggest Human-Computer Interaction conferences of the year - the HCI research groups at the GI and Waterloo have taken it upon themselves to host a virtual event.