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Sangho Suh, PhD candidate in Computer Science, presented at a PhD seminar for Human-Computer Interaction. The seminar focused on his recent study which investigated how the medium of comics can be used to make abstract coding concepts more concrete and meaningful.

Michael Barnet-Cowan,  Associate Professor of Neuroscience, held the "Chair of America's" at University of Rennes 2 in France for the month of September. The Chair of Americas is a section of the University of Rennes 2 which allows for international researchers to work on their campus, giving researchers the opportunity to present to Rennes 2 Universities doctoral students and research staff.

Morgan McGuire, Adjunct Computer Science Professor at Waterloo and Scientist at NVIDIA Research, hosted a discussion on upcoming graphics technologies and their application towards what is called "extended realities". McGuire's talk focused on the new experiences in media that are able to emerge from the application of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), rendering technology and sensors.

Tina Chan, Public Health and Health Systems MSc graduate, will be running a workshop at Pushing the Paradigm at the University of Toronto. Pushing the Paradigm focuses on broadening our understanding of mental health.

Rina R. Wehbe, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, presented at the Poster Session at the Cheriton Computer Science Research Symposium. This annual event, held in the Davis Centre, features work of those who have received the merit-based Cheriton School of Science Scholarship.

Wehbe's most recent work was presented at the poster symposium, which was attended by many experts in computer science including David R. Cheriton himself. 

GI alum Séamas Weech, postdoc researcher in neuroscience and virtual reality, presented at SIGGRAPH 2019. SIGGRAPH is an annual conference for academia and industry in Los Angeles which focuses on global innovations, including what's next for computer graphics, animation, VR, gaming and new technologies.

Dr. Gustavo F. Tondello, a PhD graduate and instructional support coordinator of Waterloo’s School of Computer Science, as well as co-founder of MotiviUX, presented a paper on the Five Factor Player Traits Model at INTERACT 2019, the IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.