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!
Ph.D. student Ruth Torres from the PIxL Lab attended the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) in Melbourne, Australia.
PIxL Lab at CSCW 2018!
Ph.D. student Sultan Alharthi from the PIxL Lab along with Prof. Igor Dolgov from the PACMANe Lab attended the 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing in Jersey City, NJ, USA.
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!
Ph.D. student Ruth C. Torres will be attending the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) from October 28-31, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. Torres will participate in the doctoral consortium.
PIxL Lab at ISCRAM 2018
Prof. Zachary O. Toups from the PIxL Lab, along with Ph.D. student Sultan Alharthi attended the 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Rochester NY, USA.
Nasim Hasan successfully defends his masters project
Congratulations to PIxL student, Nasim Hasan, for successfully defending his masters project titled “A Geo-spatial and Temporal Interface for Visualizing Transmitter Conflicts”.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Zachary O. Toups
The PIxL Lab celebrated Prof. Zachary O. Toups promotion to an Associate Professor.
PIxL Lab at CHI 2018
Prof. Zachary O. Toups from the PIxL Lab, along with Prof. Igor Dolgov from the PACMANe Lab, and Ph.D. student Sultan Alharthi attended the 2018 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Montréal, Canada.
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