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.
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.
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.
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.
Congratulations to PIxL student, Nasim Hasan, for successfully defending his masters project titled “A Geo-spatial and Temporal Interface for Visualizing Transmitter Conflicts”.
The PIxL Lab celebrated Prof. Zachary O. Toups promotion to an Associate Professor.
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.
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
Ph.D. students Sultan Alharthi attended the American Psychological Association conference on Technology, Mind and Society in Washington, D.C., on April 5-7, 2018. Alharthi presented a research paper titled “Designing Future Disaster Response Team Wearables from a Grounding in Practice” and a poster titled “A Color-Based Tracking Algorithm to Support Tangible Collaboration for Visually Impaired Students”.
Ph.D. student Sultan Alharthi, along with Masters students Zahra NaminiMianji and Nasim Hasan attended the 2018 Technology Day at NMSU. The students showcased some of the research projects conducted at the PIxL lab and the available technologies.
