This March, EAE Assistant Professor Ashley Brown traveled to San Francisco where she helped organize and run the US Games User Research Summit. An annual gathering for researchers and practitioners working in games user research (GUR), the Summit provides opportunities for GUR experts to share best practices, network, and to engage with junior colleagues. Brown […]
Read MoreBy Daphne Chen | Posted Dec 11th, 2016 @ 9:18am SALT LAKE CITY — Outside, the room is hot, the crowd is buzzing and the DJ is bumping. But inside 6-year-old Tarrah’s head, the sweet tones of classical music are piping through her ears as she conducts a school of fish around an underwater shipwreck. […]
Read MoreBy Peter Rosen | Posted Mar 17th, 2017 @ 7:03pm SALT LAKE CITY — How do you get a newly diagnosed diabetic to take his or her blood sugar level seriously? Perhaps, by turning that data into a mountain range. “A lot of the medical information that we get is abstracted, that it’s information about […]
Read MoreBy Mike Anderson | Posted Apr 28th, 2017 @ 6:34pm SALT LAKE CITY — Seeking a career in the video games industry, Ben Steele never thought he’d find himself using his programming skills to help spinal cord injury patients. “Being able to help people with it adds a level of gratification to the work,” Steele […]
Read MoreJeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News University of Utah Entertainment Arts and Engineering student Jared Brunner shows his children “Izzy and Patrick,” a game he created at the U. in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 28, 2017. SALT LAKE CITY — Faced with more than 100 program options across the U.S., Kenny Green said winnowing […]
Read MoreBy Lassonde Staff March 14, 2017 For the fall 2016 semester, Kun Cheng, an Entertainment Arts and Engineering (EAE) graduate student, was the lead engineer developing a virtual reality video game for students with autism through the Therapeutic Games & Apps Lab (or Gapp Lab). Given the framework provided by University of Utah dance instructor […]
Read More07 April 2017 Published in News and Announcements This past Fall, Eric Handman, Associate Professor and Director of the U’s Modern Dance MFA Program, received the 2016 Faculty Award for his excellence in research from the College of Fine Arts, as well as the Campus Incentive Seed Grant which allowed for his groundbreaking research in […]
Read MoreFrom The Daily Utah Chronicle March 24, 2016By Kylee Ehmann — Video games have a bit of a bad rap in modern society. They are often seen as time-wasters at best and dangerous motivators to violence at worst. Greg Bayles, a student in the Entertainment, Arts and Engineering (EAE) master’s program, is working to change […]
Read MoreFrom UNews This month the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah will launch a new digital program called Research Quest that will give middle school students across the state of Utah the chance to explore some of the museum’s paleontology collections through in-depth, classroom-based investigations. After two years of prototyping the […]
Read MoreAN ACTION VIDEO GAME DEVELOPED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HELPS STUDENTS THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF AIR POLLUTION. Jan. 13, 2015 – It’s not all fun and games when Utah’s Wasatch Front has a bad air day thanks to pollution trapped by a weather inversion. But a new computer game developed […]
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