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Jennifer Roberts-Smith presents "Performative Relationality in Design Research" on Oct. 29
Dr. Jennifer Roberts-Smith, GI faculty member and professor of Communication Arts, will be giving a talk for the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on October 29th, at 5:30p,m (CT).
First Person Scholar announces new Editor in Chief and Co-managing Editors
First Person Scholar officially announced the instalment of a new Editor in Chief and two Co-managing Editors, steering the middle-state publication into exciting directions and carrying on with the great legacy established by their predecessors.
Lindsay Meaning analyzes the video game "Kim" in article published in Loading...
In her latest article published on Loading..., Lindsay Meaning analyzes the adaptation of the novel Kim (1901), by Rudyard Kipling, into a video game by the same name, Kim (2016). The article "Adaptations of Empire: Kipling’s Kim, Novel and Game" focuses on the ways the video game deals with the underlying imperial and colonial ideologies of the book.
Study by Gustavo Tondello and Lennart Nacke shows personalized gameful systems lead to higher task performance
New GI member research published in Frontiers in Computer Science shows that personalized gameful systems lead to higher task performance.
Lennart Nacke talks Gameful User Experience in keynote speech at Mensch und Computer 2020
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 GI teams among finalists at CHI Play 2020 Student Game Design Competition
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.
Game by former GI Postdoctoral Fellow, Brian Cullen, featured by CBC Kitchener-Waterloo
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.
Lennart Nacke and Katta Spiel publish "What is it like to be a Game?" in Frontiers in Computer Science
A new paper by Drs.
Lennart Nacke interviewed by CTV News about the social power of games
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.