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StrangVR Things

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StrangVR Things is a VR prototype that crafts an immersive and engaging experience within the narrative world of Netflix's original series, Stranger Things. The user takes on the role of Eleven and must escape a hostile environment by leveraging her telekinetic powers. Our design aims to allow show viewers to explore the dangers of the Stranger Things world through Eleven's eyes and endow viewers with the same mysterious powers.

Tiamat Media ARG

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Emergent Game Group

Tiamat Media is an ARG that was specifically designed for Dragon Con 2013, the largest multimedia fan conventions in the country. It was designed to fit within the socio-cultural context of the convention, appropriating established convention actions into the design. Our narrative revolved around the fictional company we created called Tiamat Media. Tiamat Media is a publishing company that specializes in publishing fan artwork. It operates under the guise of helping fans spread their artwork and encouraging fan empowerment.

Food For Thought: A Cognitive Training Game for Older Adults

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Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC)

Over the past 2 years, we have performed experiments to understand what activities within a video game context result in cognitive gains (and which do not). From these findings, we have developed a custom cognitive game called "Food for Thought.

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IC Students Support Innovation in India through 'MakerGhat'

MakerGhat is a local makerspace in India designed to cater specifically to low-resourced innovators.
NSF Grant to Fund Georgia Tech Research into Psychological Impact of COVID-19

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has received a grant from the NSF to study the mental health outcomes of COVID-19 through examination of social media activity and geographic epidemiological data.
Social Media and Wellbeing: Does Bias in Self-Reported Data Impact Research?

Error in the data, said School of Interactive Computing Ph.D. student Sindhu Ernala, can impact the inferences drawn from the data itself.