Congratulations to Dr. Oliver Schneider (Management Science and Engineering) for receiving the 2024 Graphics Interface award for Early Career Researcher!
On November 9th, Toben Racicot (English Language and Literature) and Alaire Racicot were featured in The Record about their latest graphic memoir titled “The Night in Tilly’s Field.”
First Person Scholar (FPS), a middle-state publication supported and published by the Games Institute, has released its latest special issue titled “Gaming Paratexts.”
On October 15th, Jennifer Bentley (Manager of Events and Engagement) and Karina Graf (Associate Director, Marketing and Digital Sales) from WatSPEED visited the GI for a demo of select research projects by GI members.
Congratulations to GI faculty members Drs. Lennart Nacke (Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business) and Marcel O’Gorman (English Language and Literature) who have been appointed University Research Chairs at Waterloo.
The Games Institute is excited to announce the CfP for the upcoming International Conference on Games and Narrative 2025 (ICGaN'25). This year’s conference theme is “Adapt, Adopt, Adjust: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Adaptation, Storytelling, and Simulation” asks us to consider the power of adapted and adaptive narratives, experiences, genres, and mechanics.
Games Institute (GI) faculty member Dr. Shana MacDonald (Communications Arts) successfully secured a $74, 232 grant for the “Exploring the visual culture of misogyny across material and digital archives” project.
GI members present at The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY). The conference takes place in Tampere, Finland from October 14 to October 17, 2024. GI members attended to present their papers, in-progress studies, and projects.
On October 2nd, GI members Pamela Maria Schmidt (Interdisciplinary Research and Communications Manager) and Sid Heeg (PhD Candidate in Sustainability Management) presented at the Beyond Play 2024 Conference in Bremen, Germany.
On September 18th, Dr. Emma Vossen (Knowledge Mobilization and Research Impact Officer) and Carly Turnbull (Managing Director of the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology) participated in the Waterloo Knowledge Mobilization Community of Practice discussion focusing on the knowledge mobilization practices among UW’s research institutes and centres.