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The HCI Games Group at the GI collaborated with researchers from the ��ݮ��Ƶ Institute for Nanotechnology to provide a visual storytelling experience that explores and explains how nanotechnology is used in our everyday lives, including an explanation of the covid vaccine.

The project combines digital visual storytelling and game technology. Read more about it here.

Dr. Daniel Harley, GI faculty member and Assistant Professor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, co-authored “” with Aneesh P. Tarun, Bonnie J. Stinson, Tudor Tibu, and Ali Mazalek.

Dr. Peyman Azad Khaneghah, Occupational Therapist and postdocrotal fellow at UW, created a health app rating system entitled Alberta Rating Index for Apps (ARIA) to help people sort through the 300,000+ health apps on the market. , Canada's technology and aging network, Dr. Khaneghah explains the intention and design driving the rating system project. 

GI faculty member Dr. Muhammad Umair Shah from the Department of Management Sciences is a co-author on the recently published paper in IEEE Access, “” with authors Amir Zaib Abbasi, Umair Rehman, Helmut Hlavacs, Ding Hooi Ting, and Saima Nisar.

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It’s March, and that means spring is almost here! Though, for us in Ontario, it also means we’ll be experiencing “second winter” before summer mysteriously appears. And with a new season comes a new FPS update! We’re very excited to announce and highlight our newest and our upcoming projects geared towards expanding the Games Studies community into other spaces and/or conversations.

, GI member and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at York University, authored a chapter in the new edited collection “”.

Pallavi Sodhi, Research Intern for the Council for Responsible Innovation and Technology (CRIT)�����Ի���Dr. Jason Lajoie, Research Associate for CRIT, gave a guest lecture about inclusive board game design for students at Branksome Hall in Toronto. Read a summary of the presentation on our blog.

was awarded $100,000 from the Velocity Fund Pitch Competition to advance their research into medical devices/applications, neuroscience and bioinformatics. Π ∩ ϟ was founded by GI members Dr. Janelle Resch ���Ի���Eric Ocelewski. Janelle is the Chief Executive Officer, Eric is the Chief Technology and Architect Officer, ���Ի���GI faculty member Dr.

Spearheaded by Drs Aynur Kadir and Shana MacDonald, Games Institute members from multiple disciplines have teamed up to offer a day-long training for incoming Research Assistants. The training will involve a series of sessions exploring interdisciplinary research topics, each led by a professor, graduate researcher, or GI alum.