Dr. Lennart Nacke, Director of the HCI Games Group, gave a keynote speech, "The Loot Box of Gameful User Experience", for the virtual Mensch und Computer 2020 conference, Germany's largest HCI conference with 785 participants globally.
Two Games Institute teams were selected to be finalists for the CHI Play 2020 Student Game Design Competition. Competing among 8 other teams, Tina Chan and Adam Leung will present Illuminate, and Joseph Tu and Ekaterina Durmanova will present Curioscape.
An article by CBC Kitchener-Waterloo features a game by Brian Cullen, former Games Institute postdoctoral fellow (PDF), and his team at Fluxscopic, a Kitchener-based game studio.
A new paper by Drs.
Dr. Lennart Nacke, Director of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Games Group, was interviewed by CTV News to comment on how a pair from Guelph have built an online community through Twitch to connect with people during COVID.
Dr. Nacke's work involves researching and designing innovative gamification applications that push the boundaries of what we can do with games. In the interview, Nacke commented on the social power of games to bring people together.
The Touchless Elevator Concept was developed by GI member Tanay Singhal, Research Intern for the Haptic Computing Lab, and co-author Mahika Phutane, a PhD student at Cornell doing research in HCI and Accessibility. A story about this work is featured on the Waterloo Homepage: Elevating haptics.
The Games Institute is very pleased to welcome four new faculty members (in alphabetical order): Robert Burns from Kinesiology, Dr. Daniel Harley from the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, Dr. Luke Potwarka from Recreation and Leisure Studies, and Dr. Muhammad Umair Shah from Management Sciences. In lieu of walking them around the Institute for face-to-face introductions, we asked them a few questions so our community can get to know them better...
For the first time, US doctors can prescribe a video game. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved EndeavorRX as an effective treatment for kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD
– quoted from "The FDA Just Approved The First Prescription Video Game For Kids With ADHD" by David Nield in Science Alert.
Missed the event from Thursday, June 25? Watch it now on YouTube. Drs. Aynur Kadir, Jennifer Boger, Jim Wallace, and Michael Barnett-Cowan of the Games Institute, Scotiabank's Andrea Kerswill, and Glove System's Ray Simonson talk about what we have seen so far about our attempt to capitalize on virtual technology to manage through the crisis, the pros and cons of virtual connectivity, what weaknesses of virtual reality have been exposed, and how to reinvent the future.
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: