DualPanto, a non-visual haptic device for the blind, was featured on the Arduino blog, October 22. The device allows visually impaired users to engage with video games that would otherwise be inaccessbile to them:
Toben Racicot, GI resident and English PhD student, will be attending the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association conference in Baltimore, November 8-10. His paper, "Trauma and Demogorgons: Analyzing Dungeons & Dragons in Stranger Things", examines the impact that roleplaying games have in strengthening psychic protections in anticipation of future traumas.
Tony Smith and Kristina Llewellyn represented the Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation (DOHR) project at the Canadian History of Education Association (CHEA) conference in New Brunswick, October 18-21, 2018. Their co-presentation was entitled "Building Just Relations: Oral History and Virtual Reality in History Education".
Jason Hawreliak, co-founder of FPS and Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Brock University, authored "Multimodal Semiotics and Rhetoric in Videogames," published Oct 10, 2018. The book is available in .
, GI Resident and PhD student in the department of Management Sciences, will be presenting his paper entitled "Investigating game mechanics that target players' self-control while maintaining engagement" at .
The City as Platform lab (), an associate lab of the Games Institute, published a Whitepaper to present their findings from their "Right to the Smart City" symposium that took place March, 2018 at Harvard University. Their work aims to help municipalities, experts, and community members plan smart cities together.
John Yoon, GI resident and English PhD student, presented a poster at this year's University of California Esports Conference (UCIESC), that took place Oct. 11-12, 2018. His poster examined the cultural practice of sports writing in esports.
Yoon's work examines and analyzes narratives in esports writing. He argues that esports writing is a mode of technical communication that accommodates non-expert audiences through narratives.
, GI alumnus and Assistant Professor of Game Design and Development at Laurier, presented a paper at the in East Lansing, Michigan on Oct. 11.
Dr. Ali Mazalek joins us today to give a Brown Bag talk on human cognition and computational media.
The talk will be from 1-Â 2pm in the Games Institute Collaboration space - refreshments will be provided. For more event details, click here.
Séamas Weech, Jessy Varghese, and Michael Barnett-Cowan, members of the VR working group at the Games Institute, co-authored a paper entitled "" published in the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Their results caught the attention of many, many news outlets who were picking the story up and claiming that UW researchers are on the cusp of curing cybersickness. Here are just a few...