Dino Island is a product of decades of leading-edge research at UVic. And it can improve attention, working memory and executive function in children with disabilities.
Bernadette Perry, a PhD student in French, has spent hundreds of hours honing Explorez, her new French-language video game that helps students reinforce their language skills while exploring the UVic campus.
David Leach is available to media for commentary on recent news about the World Health Organization declaring video game addiction a mental health disorder.
Research culminating in a Street Fighter tournament Jan. 26 at UVic put a different spin on video game culture. Humanities Dean Chris Goto-Jones, who started the project in 2010, has found that far from causing more violence, fighting games are a form of martial art that can make us better people.
English students in a fifth-year digital literary studies course turned to literature and DIY culture for inspiration to create video games as part of their class. They created two indie games: a campus-based locative app for mobile phones and a 2-D children’s game.
Video games are taking the blame for increasing childhood and adolescent obesity rates, but what if game players had to move more than their thumbs to cyber-race cars, motorcycles and bikes? Dr. Ryan Rhodes (physical education) studies physical acti…
Dr. Geoff Potter, a UVic educational faculty member, claims that children who play games run the risk of becoming less creative and less literate as adults. He says games, when combined with a lack of educational and extra-curricular stimulation, ma…
Attempts by government to regulate the sale of violent video games to youngsters will simply push such items into less regulated distribution channels, says Dr. Steve Tax (business). "The more you tell kids they can't have something, the more desira…
