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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

ALOHA From New York, GBDA Student Helps Advance Conversational AI Systems

ALOHA From New York, GBDA Student Helps Advance Conversational AI Systems

Global Business and Digital Arts student Julia Sprague, alongside her Computation Health and Informatics Lab (CHIL) team, recently celebrated the publication of their paper, “ALOHA: Artificial Learning of Human Attributes for Dialogue Agents.” Led by Professor Jesse Hoey, the team’s paper was published in Google Scholar and accepted to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference in New York, where the group presented their findings in February.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Stratford School Professor Lennart Nacke Receives $30k Mitacs Accelerate Grant

Stratford School Professor Lennart Nacke Receives $30k Mitacs Accelerate Grant

Lennart Nacke, Associate Professor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business and Director of the HCI Games Group at the Games Institute, has recently been awarded a $30k grant from Mitacs in partnership with TD Bank.

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Friday, February 7, 2020

BLND Tickets Now Available. Business Meets Design

BLND is back for another year at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business. This 1-day interactive conference highlights how the transformative power of design has become the secret advantage to business success.

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Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Storytelling in Design Lunch & Learn

Dr. Lennart Nacke will present a lively introduction to storytelling in design. You’ll gain valuable insights into how engaging narratives can be used to create empathy, make connections, clarify meaning, and enhance user experience design in both digital and non-digital applications.

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Monday, November 18, 2019

StoryCamp welcomed over 100 students to participate in multimodal story design competition.

More than 135 registrants from Waterloo's main campus, the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business and other institutions, descended upon the Stratford School Saturday morning to participate in StoryCamp, a 15-hour design competition on multimodal storytelling.