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.
Torres Castillo successfully defends her dissertation [online during the pandemic!]
Greatest congratulations to Dr. Ruth Torres, who did an awesome job for defending her dissertation while under quarantine!
Alharthi successfully defends his PhD dissertation!
PIxL student, Sultan Alharthi, successfully defended his PhD dissertation.
NaminiMianji successfully defends her masters project!
Congratulations to PIxL student, Zahra NaminiMianji, for successfully defending her masters project.
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”.
