The EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: More Than a Movie: Cinematic Design in Games Speaker: Ashley Kuhl Date:Jan 25, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Cinematic design in games, while a very niche field, is an important addition to narrative games that visually communicate the story. But unlike film, […]
Read MoreThe EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Tales From the User Research Crypt Speaker: Kelly Boudreau Date: Dec. 7th, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: Don’t fancy a career in games user research? Just want to make games!? How a class (or two) on GUR helps you make better games (and […]
Read MoreThe EAE Game Lecture Series Presents: Title: Games as Psychedelic Experiences Speaker: Cory Davis Date: Nov 16th, 5-6pm Location: EAE Games Studio (Building 72, Level 2) Open to the public Description: An invitation to consider the unmatched power of games to create intense, emotionally affecting, even hallucinatory experiences. Let’s take a strange trip through psychedelic movements past and present […]
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 […]
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