The PIxL Lab works at the intersection of games, human-computer interaction, and mixed reality, developing game experiences that educate and function as scientific experiments in HCI. Beyond development workstations, it includes a custom wearable computing platform that connects sensors, a head-mounted display, and a hand-held display to enable players to enjoy mixed reality experiences away from the desktop.
PIxL Lab at CHI PLAY 2018!
PIxL Lab at CSCW 2018!
NaminiMianji completed internship at University of Utah!
Masters student Zahra NaminiMianji successfully completed her 2018 summer internship at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. NaminiMianji worked with supervisor Jeff M Phillips on a coloring assignment algorithm implementation in Matlab.
Alharthi completed internship at Autodesk!
Ph.D. student Sultan A. Alharthi successfully completed his 2018 summer internship at Autodesk Research, Toronto, Canada. Alharthi worked on a research project with supervisors Ben Lafreniere & Tovi Grossman, investigating cooperative tutorial systems for learning 3D design software.
PIxL Lab heading to CHI Play 2018!
PIxL Lab at ISCRAM 2018
Nasim Hasan successfully defends his masters project
Congratulations to Associate Professor Zachary O. Toups
PIxL Lab at CHI 2018
PIxL Lab heading to CHI 2018!
We are excited to announce that the PIxL Lab will be presenting three full papers and co-organizing a SIG meeting at CHI 2018.
Playing to Wait: A Taxonomy of Idle Games
Sultan A. Alharthi, Olaa Alsaedi, Zachary O. Toups, Joshua Tanenbaum, & Jessica Hammer
Date: Monday, Apr 23
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:50 PM
Session: Design for Emotion and Anticipation
Room: 515ABC
Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games
Sultan A. Alharthi, Ruth C. Torres, Ahmed S. Khalaf, Zachary O. Toups, Igor Dolgov, & Lennart E. Nacke
Date: Tuesday, Apr 24
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM
Session: Playing with others
Room: 515ABC
A Design Framework for Awareness Cues in Distributed Multiplayer Games
Jason Wuertz, Sultan A. Alharthi, William A. Hamilton, Scott Bateman, Carl Gutwin, Anthony Tang, Zachary O. Toups, & Jessica Hammer
Date: Wednesday, Apr 25
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM
Session: Interpersonal Awareness in gameplay
Room: 514C
Games and Play SIG: Engaging Small Developer Communities
Lennart E. Nacke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Katta Spiel, Zachary O. Toups, & Katherine Isbister
Date: Tuesday, Apr 24
Time: 04:00 PM
Room: 514A