CHI 2013 Paper accepted: How Does it Play Better? Exploring User Testing and...
Our research summer project from this year and one of the important final research projects in Pejman’s Ph.D. thesis was accepted into CHI 2013 and we are thrilled to be presenting this research at...
View ArticleCSCI 5550G: Graduate Course in Affective Gaming offered
This winter semester, Dr. Nacke is offering a graduate course on Affective Gaming, Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience in Interactive Entertainment. The course is designed as a reading...
View ArticleMagicDuel Capstone Project
For a capstone project, Dr. Nacke is leading a game development effort to creating a public installation game using the Kinect, Balance board and other sensors. The game is currently being developed by...
View ArticleCHI 2013 UOIT HCI Gaming Awesomeness
Our research group now has several entries accepted into CHI and is looking forward to a great conference, where we will be presenting the following: Workshop: Designing Gamification: Creating Gameful...
View ArticleGamification 2013 Conference Opens Registration
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus have begun accepting submissions from presenters for an international conference on gamification...
View ArticleUOIT Takes On Academia
You have probably heard of the video game publisher ‘Ubisoft‘. They have produced many popular series such as; Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia and Rayman....
View ArticleDr. Nacke featured in Virtual Speaker Series
Initiated in the Fall of 2012, the Virtual Speaker Series is a collection of online videos showcasing recent research projects by talented faculty within UOIT. These videos were released on a monthly...
View ArticleGamification 2013 Live Discussion on Industry Implementation
This Thursday (July 18th 2013), the organizers of the Gamification 2013 conference (in collaboration with ACM SIGCHI) will be discussing industry implementations of gamification in a Google+ Hangout on...
View ArticleGame On! 2.0
With all of the Conferences and Research requiring the full attention of the team in the UOIT GameLab, a break was greatly needed. One creative student suggested a lab trip to the Science Centre to...
View ArticleHCI Games Group Visit at UOIT (Friday before CHI 2014)
We are offering an all-day visit to our labs on UOIT’s campus in Oshawa on Friday, April 25, 2014. Talk to us about CHI PLAY and the Games and Entertainment community at CHI this year in a fun and...
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