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 ݮƵ 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 ݮƵ 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 ղԲԲ, Research Intern for the Haptic Computing Lab, and co-author , a PhD student at Cornell doing research in HCI and Accessibility.
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For the students at the Games Institute (GI), cancelling ݮƵ’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.
This report details the interdisciplinary nature of the Games Institute through the act of playing games.
An online platform built with the assistance of the The Games Institute at the University of ݮƵ has been launched to assist healthcare and social service providers to recognize and respond safely to family violence.
New research by Rina R. Wehbe and collaborators from the Cheriton School of Computer Science and the Games Institute at University of ݮƵ explores territoriality in playful applications. In the paper, Wehbe et al. investigates the relationship between digital and physical spaces as they apply players’ understanding of shared space, collaboration, and social behaviours.
Haptics are becoming a staple for high-end technologies (ex. iPhones, the Google Pixel, and Nintendo Switch), as they enhance user experiences by incorporating multisensory feedback, like touch-tones, movements, or vibrations. Despite this, developers currently lack a framework for understanding how to best incorporate and improve them.