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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.

A cozy, chill game about a stone skipping across a lake.

Kristina Llewellyn, GI faculty member and Social Development Studies professor, was featured by Waterloo Stories in a Question and Answer article about issues surrounding equity in education as schools transition online during COVID-19.

The article shows Llewellyn responding to questions about the impact of physical distancing for different students and teachers, as well as parent concerns about grading.

John Muñoz attended the Family day Hackjam at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener to demonstrate virtual reality (VR) tools and techniques for prototyping content and create cardboard headsets. 

Tina Chan, MSc alum and PASS inc. founder, and Prof Jim Wallace, GI faculty member from the School of Public Health and Health Systems, are presenting at the Hallman Lecture Series, featuring Jane Philpott, former Health Minister of Canada.

The Games Institute was thrilled to welcome Dr. Lili Liu, Dean of Applied Health Sciences, and her research colleagues, Drs. Adriana Rios Rincon and Antonio Miguel Cruz, from the University of Alberta for a visit and tour of our facility.

Dr. Rincon delivered a presentation about the research team's (Drs. Liu, Rincon, Cruz, and Eleni Stroulia) ongoing work  involving games that support the health and wellness of older adults.

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.