G_Scale_Lab

Interdisciplinary research lab at McMaster University. Working on: Visual scale in games; Player experience - measure and design; Generative approaches to games

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The G-ScalE Website has been given a visual overhaul! Enjoy the new colour scheme while learning about our lab and the people in it at https://t.co/QqShg89aRD

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Adele Olejarz is the undergraduate research assistant, and current social media coordinator of the G-ScalE lab. Pursuing a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in CompSci, she assists many of the other G-ScalE members when their research calls for a few extra digits.

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Noel Brett is an esteemed guest, and honorary member of the G-ScalE lab! Noel’s interests in digital games lie on avatars and interfaces. Particularly, Noel's research looks at how design practices and social affordances interact.

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Adrian Scigaljo is an Applied Sciences Masters Candidate. His focus is on computer generation of coherent interactive fiction that remains interesting, meaningful, and non-repetitive.

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Qirui (Wayne) Wu is an Engineering Masters Candidate. Building on his past experience in the game development industry, his research focuses on level design, battle rhythm, and virtual economy balance.

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Lai Wei is an Engineering Masters Candidate. Her project focuses on colour quantization and image processing, and aims to use image quality assessment to evaluate visual aesthetic similarity.

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Gabriel D’Alimonte is an Engineering Masters Candidate whose work relates to generation of software artifacts, particularly for scientific computing purposes.

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Meet PhD student, Geneva Smith! Her focus is on Non-Player Character believability, particularly on emotions and emotional behaviours.

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Xiaoye (Marshall) Ma is an Engineering Masters Candidate who is working on a Chinese history game that scales depending on the device you play it on.

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Pavanjot (Pav) Gill is an Engineering Masters Candidate. He is working on a code generator which constructs ‘platformer’ games from specification files

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Meet Sasha Soraine! She is a PhD student, whose work relates video game challenges to Human motor and cognitive ability.

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Introducing The Man himself, Dr. Jacques Carette (Our benevolent Leader, and Supervisor). His G-ScalE research focuses on measuring/designing the player experience, and on generative approaches to games.

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Hello World! The GScalE lab is now on Twitter! Stay tuned to meet the wonderful people who make up our team #myfirstTweet