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Past Events
Games for Change 2022
Dr. Weser will be speaking at Games for Change 2022 in New York City. The festival takes place from July 13-14 and will have both live and virtual components! Dr. Weser’s talk, Developing and Evaluating a VR Wheelchair Locomotion Interface, will be airing virtually throughout the conference.
Dr Hieftje was a judge for the XR Brain Jam at the Games for Change Conference
July 11, 2022: Dr Hieftje was a judge for the XR Brain Jam at the Games for Change Conference, New York City, NY.
Using Education to Prepare the NHS and Social Care Workforce to Deliver the Digital Future
Delivered by Yale University in Partnership with Health Education England.
International Association of Gaming Advisors Summit 2022
Dr. Hieftje is a keynote speaker at IAGA 2022 in Boston, MA. Attend in person from June 27-29.
Serious Play 2022
Dr. Hieftje will present at Serious Play 2022 in Orlando, Florida on June 14th. Come see her talk on The Use of AR/VR in Health Applications for Youth at 10:15 am.
Dr. Weser invited to speak at the Biweekly Research Series hosted by the Human Engineering Research Laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
On April 29, 2022, Dr. Weser spoke to the University of Pittsburg interdisciplinary research team known as HERL about the concrete interface for virtual reality locomotion.
Dr. Weser featured as invited speaker in research presentation and panel entitled “Virtual Reality as a Research Tool”
The public lecture took place on April 28, 2022, and was jointly sponsored by Yale’s Blended Reality Program, HP, and Intel. Dr. Weser discussed her work on the wheelchair interface for virtual reality navigation. The lecture can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/LnT7yiJRCJI
Dr Weser presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence
On March 13, 2022, Dr. Weser presented: “InvestiDate: A Multi-Player Videogame Intervention to Empower Black Teen Girls Around Safe Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Partner Communication” in New Orleans Lousiana.
Dr. Hieftje gave the Keynote presentation at the Intercultural Competence and Global Education: New Perspective, Implementation, & Evaluation 2021
Situated at the National Taipei University of Education, Taipai City, Taiwan, Dr. Hieftje described the process of “Bringing Game-based Health Interventions into the Classroom”
Dr. Weser Gives Cognitive Science Public Lecture at Vassar College
On October 6, 2021, Dr. Weser presented at her alma mater, Vassar College, for an invited public lecture hosted by the Cognitive Science Department. Dr. Weser’s talk, Virtual Reality in Behavioral Science: Basic and Applied Research Applications, discussed her work using VR from her graduate school days through her current work on Invite Only VR.