Bioaffect:Community Portal
information about yourself and your interests + ideas you’d like to explore
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Your Name
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Research interests:
Supervisor:
Ideas I'd like to explore in class:
Ideas for projects:
Diane Gromala
background: dubious
official degrees in Design, Film Studies and Computer Science
unofficial and quasi-official studies in cultural studies (Yale), EE (Georgia Tech), and Consciousness Studies (UArizona)
Taught in a School of Fine Art (UTexas), a School of Communications (UW), a School of Literature, Communication & Culture (Georgia Tech)
Affiliate status at the HITLab, GVU, Oxford and the National Pain Centre
Research interests: technological interventions for chronic pain, embodiment, monsters & zombies, viscera
Supervisor: the gods
Ideas I'd like to explore in class: producing an iTunes U segment (it is odd that SIAT doesn't have a presence!),
rediscovering my groove re: teaching a class that is wildly fun
Ideas for projects: creating something related to affect, pain and comfort; creating a funny pain project
Terry Lavender
Background: army brat, ex-journalist, wannabe novelist, ex-PR hack for SFU, SIAT MSc (2009), current PhD student studying persuasive video games
Research interests: persuasive video games (especially social activism games), mobile games, immersion in games
Supervisor: Magy Seif el-Nasr
Ideas I'd like to explore in class: effect of immersion on the body and the emotions, biofeedback and emotions. I also like the iTunes U idea.
Ideas for projects: 1. setting up a feedback loop to respond to physiological signifiers that result from a speech impediment (still working this out, so this may change). 2. measuring physiological reactions to playing a persuasive video game on an iPhone/iPad.
