Apr 2, 2025
On this episode of the GI Podcast, co-hosts Sid Heeg and Dr. Emma Vossen sit down with the Rhetoricon Team. Led by Dr. Randy Harris of the English Language and Literature department at the University of Waterloo, the Rhetoricon project is the longest running project at the Games Institute. Dr. Harris' project examines...
Mar 7, 2025
In this episode of the GI Podcast, co-hosts Toben Racicot and Sid Heeg sit down with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Eugene Kukshinov and his work in social virtual reality and exploring the concept of presence within VR environments.
Bio:
Dr. Eugene Kukshinov is a media psychology and HCI postdoctoral researcher. He got his...
Feb 14, 2025
This month, hosts Sid Heeg and Toben Racicot are joined by Pamela Maria Schmidt and Dr. Emma Vossen as they discuss the games they've played in 2024 and are looking forward to in 2025. Catch the latest details about their experiences with Balatro, It Takes Two, and The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. All this and...
Jun 7, 2024
Co-hosts
Toben Racicot (English Language and Literature) and Sid Heeg
(Environment) interview Dr. Luke Potwarka (Recreation and Leisure)
and Greg Mittler (Athletics and Recreation). Together they are the
founders of UWIN aka
the University of Waterloo Interdisciplinary Network for
Esports.
Sid and Toben chat with...
May 10, 2024
This month co-hosts Toben Racicot and Sid Heeg interview incoming
GI Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Geneva Smith about her research into NPC
emotional believability in games.
Links:
G-ScalE Lab at McMaster University. https://gscale.cas.mcmaster.ca/
“Start Your EM(otion En)gine: Towards Computational Models of Emo-tion...