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Pallavi Sodhi, Research Intern for the Council for Responsible Innovation and Technology (CRIT) and Dr. Jason Lajoie, Research Associate for CRIT, gave a guest lecture about inclusive board game design for students at Branksome Hall in Toronto.

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the research landscape. In this series, we explore how our community is navigating their daily lives and innovating to adapt their research and collaboration techniques.

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the research landscape. In this series, we explore how our community is navigating their daily lives and innovating to adapt their research and collaboration techniques.

The Human-Computer Interaction labs at the Games Institute, and at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ overall, emphasize collaboration between and within groups so any one student is uplifted by the entire network of HCI researchers.

In partnership with CRIT and the REDI Council, the Games Institute is hosting a Racial Equity Board Games Panel on October 21, 2020,��to��kick off the Racial Equity Board Games Showcase, which will take place in��Winter 2021. .

Energize��is an educational tool for understanding how to plan and implement sustainable energy solutions.��It��represents the potential that games have for teaching people complex ideas, like environmental realities, by demonstrating��the obstacles, considerations, and possibilities involved.��, English graduate student,��collaborated with the ��ݮ��Ƶ Global Science Initiative (WGSI) via a Mitacs partnership and co-op term��to turn their prototype and concept of��Energize��into a fully-realized game.

Energize is an educational tool for understanding how to plan and implement sustainable energy solutions.��It��represents the potential that games have for teaching people complex ideas, like environmental realities, by demonstrating��the obstacles, considerations, and possibilities involved.��, English graduate student,��collaborated with the ��ݮ��Ƶ Global Science Initiative (WGSI) via a Mitacs partnership and co-op term��to turn their prototype and concept of��Energize��into a fully-realized game.

The Touchless Elevator Concept was developed by GI member��Tanay��Singhal, Research Intern for the��Haptic Computing Lab, and co-author��, a PhD student at Cornell doing research in HCI and Accessibility.

Read the original piece published on ��ݮ��Ƶ Stories here.

For the students at the Games Institute (GI), cancelling ��ݮ��Ƶ’s termly GI Game Jam was never an option.

We asked Dr. John Harris, valued��GI alum from Computer Science and founder of the Playful Pixel, to tell us the story of his collaboration with the Ideas Clinic, a Software Engineering initiative that offers creative crash-courses for first-year students. Dr. Harris stepped in to support the clinic in designing and delivering a game experience. Read on to discover the results of this unique interdisciplinary collaboration and find out what “Games as learning sandbox” means.