In-Game-Ads Study – Preliminary Introduction During the summer of 2021, the In-Game Ads study was conducted to analyze the content and age-appropriateness of third-party advertisements that appear in children’s mobile games on iOS and AndroidContinue reading
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Media Ratings Project
Research Assistants, Alan Bui (Bachelor of Information student) and Des’Ree Brown (MI 2021) worked with Dr. Sara Grimes to design and conduct a comprehensive content analysis of how games and films were rated in Canada,Continue reading
Problematic Pleasures in Digital Games and Play
Problematic Pleasures in Digital Games and Play was a recent symposium organized by Felan Parker, Sara Grimes, and Scott Richmond. The symposium brought together four prominent international game scholars—Christopher B. Patterson, Aaron Trammell, Kishonna L. Gray and Bo Ruberg—to discuss the diverseContinue reading
Knowledge Media Design Institute’s New Logo
KMDI announced it’s new logo in 2021. The new logo emphasizes themes of interdisciplinary collaboration, discovery, growth, and innovation. Drawing inspiration from the Semaphore flag, pixels, children’s building blocks, and interface design, this new logoContinue reading
New KMDI Study Examines How Academics Use TikTok, the Benefits and the Perils
In a bid to shine a spotlight on their research and make it more accessible, academics around the world are following in the footsteps of their students and taking to TikTok to share videos. The trend isContinue reading
KMDI & UXD Graduate Showcase
In celebration of another term end, KMDI hosted its spring poster session in the Inforum Library on Monday, April 2nd, 2018. Sponsored by the University of Toronto Libraries’ UX Lab, this year’s session showcased theContinue reading
KMDI and UXD Graduate Showcase
Join us for a special evening of community and design on Monday, April 2nd in the Inforum! The KMDI and UXD Graduate Showcase is an opportunity to: – View (posters) from Dr. Jeffrey Boase’s KMD1002 “ApplicationsContinue reading
KMDI Tea Talk
All are welcome to drop by for a chat, warm beverage and sweet treats. Feel like sharing your research? Interested in hearing feedback? How about a friendly audience to practice a presentation or design pitch?Continue reading
KMDI Tea Talk
All are welcome to drop by for a chat, warm beverage and sweet treats. Feel like sharing your research? Interested in hearing feedback? How about a friendly audience to practice a presentation or design pitch?Continue reading
KMDI Tea Talk
All are welcome to drop by for a chat, warm beverage and sweet treats. Feel like sharing your research? Interested in hearing feedback? How about a friendly audience to practice a presentation or design pitch?Continue reading
KMDI Tea Talk
All are welcome to drop by for a chat, warm beverage and sweet treats. Feel like sharing your research? Interested in hearing feedback? How about a friendly audience to practice a presentation or design pitch?Continue reading
REWIND | KMDI Speaker Series: David Shinar
January 18, 2018 Crash Causation: Prevalence versus Risk, Four Decades Ago versus Now Abstract Our understanding of the causes of crashes has changed dramatically over the past half century. The findings from the Indiana UniversityContinue reading
KMDI Tea Talk
All are welcome to drop by for a chat, warm beverage and sweet treats. Feel like sharing your research? Interested in hearing feedback? How about a friendly audience to practice a presentation or design pitch?Continue reading
REWIND | KMDI Speaker Series: Jacquelyn Burkell
November 13, 2017 Unpacking Social Media Privacy: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding Abstract Conceptions of privacy expectation and privacy practices of social media users are notoriously simple, ranging from bald statements that people “don’t care”Continue reading
REWIND | KMDI Speaker Series: J. Bruce Morton
October 25, 2017 Engineering and Design in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Research Abstract Developmental cognitive neuroscience research examines age-related changes in children’s intellectual functioning that occur in association with the development of the brain. Traditional methodsContinue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – Social Media and New Political Imperatives in the Global South: The Case of Narendra Modi
Abstract What can social media do for politicians in the Global South, where a relatively small share of the population uses social media? To answer this, I explore the landscape of social media use byContinue reading
KMDI Tea Talk
All are welcome to drop by for a chat, warm beverage and sweet treats. Feel like sharing your research? Interested in hearing feedback? How about a friendly audience to practice a presentation or design pitch?Continue reading
KMDI Coffee Club
All are welcome to drop by for a chat, coffee, tea and sweet treats. Feel like sharing your research? Interested in hearing feedback? How about a friendly audience to practice a presentation or design pitch?Continue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – Studies in Gameful Interaction Design and Games User Research
Abstract Human-Computer Interaction research for interactive entertainment has grown in popularity over the last decade. Dr. Nacke will take you on a journey through his research from the last 10 years, which has shaped howContinue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – HCI in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Abstract How do we understand human-computer interaction (HCI) in an age of ubiquitous computing? As the build environment is increasingly embedded with computational affordances, the ability to identify civic subjects—their location, preferences, secrets—has become trivialContinue reading