The Spring term marks conference season for both Humanities and HCI researchers with June hosting both CGSA (Canadian Game Studies Association) and CHI (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems).
Dr. MacDonald is a professor in Communication Arts and qConvenor from the qCollaborative lab. For this talk, she’s sharing advice and insights into publishing for the humanities, suitable for an interdisciplinary audience.
This event will start at 2:00pm EST.
Dr. Oliver Schneider, GI faculty member and Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, was awarded funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to help establish his Haptic Computing Lab.
Dr. Kevin Harrigan is a founding member of the Games Institute, the director of the Knowledge Translation Stream at UWaterloo, and contact person for the Gambling Research Lab. Dr. Harrigan's present research focuses on promoting healthier gambling by developing methods to make gamblers aware of their statistical odds.
This week on FPS, we have a commentary from Matthew Schwager that approaches Silent Hill 2 as a game about mapping and uses that lens to explore its themes of trauma and the influence butoh, the Japanese dance of shadows, had on the game's design.
This week in First Person Scholar, Andrew Bailey contributes an essay examining hauntological remediation in Resident Evil 7 and P.T.