I am a PhD candidate in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, where I am a member of the Transforming Pain Research Group. My area of research is immersive video games for small platforms, and their applicability to pain alleviation. My senior supervisor is Dr. Diane Gromala. Here are links to my published papers, including my Master’s thesis.
Academic Research
I am a PhD candidate in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, where I am a member of the Transforming Pain Research Group. My area of research is immersive video games for small platforms, and their applicability to pain alleviation. My senior supervisor is Dr. Diane Gromala. Here are links to my published papers, including my Master’s thesis.
Thesis
Homeless: It’s No Game — Measuring the Effectiveness of a Persuasive Videogame (August 2008). Now available in softcover as Under the Influence? Measuring the Effectiveness of a Persuasive Videogame, published by Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010. Available at Amazon.com.
Journals
“Games Just Want to Have Fun”, Loading… , Vol. 1, No. 1 (2007)
“Video Games as Change Agents: The Case of Homeless: It’s No Game“, McMaster Journal of Communication, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2011).
Conference Proceedings
Games Just Wanna Have Fun, Canadian Game Studies Association, York University, Toronto, September 21, 2006
Homeless: It’s No Game — Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Advocacy Videogames, (poster presentation), Persuasion 2007, Stanford University, Palo Alto, April 26-27, 2007
Homeless: It’s No Game: Measuring the Effectiveness of a Persuasive Videogame, European Games Based Learning Conference, Barcelona, October 17, 2008
Other
Homeless: It’s No Game — Evaluating the Effectiveness of Persuasive Videogames, presented to the SFU SIAT Research Colloquium, March 17, 2010
Portable Mindfulness: immersion and meditation on smart phones and tablets. Presented to the Mindfulness Technologies Workshop, November 18, 2011, OCAD, Toronto.
Social Mobility and Chronic Pain. Poster, at Chronic Pain: Art, Science and Medicine Collaborations exhibit, UCLA, Los Angeles, Sept – Dec, 2011
Audition: The Game. Poster presentation, Simon Fraser University Open House, May 28, 2001.
Assignments
April 25, 2011. Audition, The Game: Assessing the possibilities of speech as a non-trivial gameplay element in video games , an assignment for IAT 811, Bioaffective Computing.
Link to Academic C.V.