News

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. 

Waterloo News shared a summary of "Development and validation of the player experience inventory", co-developed by Professor Lennart Nacke as part of an international collaboration, led by Prof. Dr. Vero Vanden Abeele, KU Leuven, Belgium, and also including Prof. dr. Kathrin Gerling of KU Leuven, Belgium, Prof. Dr. Daniel Johnson of Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Dr.

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 Multisensory Brain and Cognition (MBC) Lab is seeking postdoctoral applicants for a newly announced AMTD Waterloo Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship is an opportunity for one or two years of funding, with more information available here.

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.

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.

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.

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.