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Congratulations to Dr. Noorin Manji for receiving the Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching! Dean Alexie Tcheuyap and the Arts Honours and Awards committee are pleased to announce the results of the 2025 Arts Awards for Excellence in Service, Teaching, and Research. The awards recognize outstanding contributions from faculty and staff, with Dr. Manji being honored for her exemplary teaching over the past five years. The awards will be presented this Fall at the annual Celebration of Arts event.

Researchers at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business challenge the belief that Virtual Reality (VR) inherently fosters perspective-taking in their article, “Seeing Is Not Thinking: Testing capabilities of VR to Promote Perspective-Taking.” They argue that VR's potential as an "empathy machine" relies on intentional design that promotes active cognitive engagement. Through experiments, they found that perspective-taking is enhanced when users are prompted with specific tasks, encouraging them to consider the character's viewpoint. This study, which received the Best Paper Award at IEEE VR, underscores the importance of purposeful VR design to effectively harness its empathetic capabilities.

Dr. Kim de Laat’s article “Remote Work and Post-Bureaucracy: Unintended Consequences of Work Design for Gender Inequality” wasselected as a nominee for the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family.

Dr. Lennart Nacke has accomplished exceptional academic accolades and scholarly breakthroughs to receive the prestigious title of University Research Chair.

Multimedia Storytelling (DEI 616), created by Daniel Harley of the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Course Design award.

Map the System is a global challenge hosted by Oxford University that tasks students with mapping a problem using systems-thinking tools. Students will pitch their completed "map" of their problem to a panel of judges, with the winners receiving cash prizes and the opportunity to represent the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ at the Canadian Finals in Calgary.

The University of ��ݮ��Ƶ's Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business will be hosting CBC IDEAS: Visionaries in Conversation on November 16. Billed as "an opportunity to explore how we reshape the future of our tech-driven world," the event will feature speakers Cory Doctorow and Vass Bednar.

On January 24, the Office of Research hosted a panel discussion on understanding where Artificial Intelligence (AI) will take us. Panelists from the ��ݮ��Ƶ Artificial Intelligence Institute (��ݮ��Ƶ.AI), and industry professionals spoke about AI's current and future uses.

Real-Life Morals in Gaming: "I Don't Want to Shoot the Android"

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