2025

6.2.2025 Hunter: Video Game-Based Intervention for physical/occupational therapy received the Maxwell-Lutz Community Impact Award.

6.1.2025 Jared: SpokeIt Patent Awarded

4.16.2025 Hunter: Video Game-Based Intervention for physical/occupational therapy received the Pheatt Family Research Award.

4.16.2025 Alison: ASSETS Full Paper for CardioCare Quest Accepted for Publication.

4.7.2025 Hunter: Video Game-Based Intervention for physical/occupational therapy received the Hooper Undergraduate Research Award.

3.31.2025 Hunter: Video Game-Base Intervention for physical/occupational therapy IRB approved!

3.16.2025 Jared: Presents SpokeIt to RCMI Conference as SHERC Representative.

2.26.2025 Cathy: Game Design Club participated in judging for World Game Development Awards - Best Student Game

2.20.2025 Jared: Publication on Gaze Entropy to measure focus and attention accepted for publication in ETRA.

2.25.2025 Cathy: GDC announced the Playtester event – a chance for game developers to present their games to an audience, gather feedback, and refine their projects based on player input.

2.12.2025 Cathy: Became the Social Recruitment Event Chair for Game Design Club!

1.16.2025 Jared: Hosts NAU's inaugural Game Jam

1.15.2025 Jared: Teaching Creative Strategies for Designing Interactive Media and History and Theory of Games

1.8.2025 Tochukwu: Abstract for RCMI Conference Accepted.

2024

11.05.2024 Tochukwu and Jared: CardioCare Quest: Co-Creating a Culturally Sensitive Telehealth Game for Hypertension Management in the Navajo Nation abstract submission accepted for the 2025 Winter Institute on Indigenous Computational Futures.11.05.2024 Tochukwu and Jared: CardioCare Quest: A Co-created Game for Improving Hypertension Treatment Adherence in Arizona abstract submission accepted for the 26th Annual American Indian Studies Association (AISA) Conference. 10.28.2024 Jared: DREEM: Moving from Empathy to Enculturation in Disability Related Human-Centered Design published at ASSETS Conference. Read the paper.10.02.2024 Jared and Tochukwu: CardioCare Quest Grant funded by RCMI ($150,000)10.01.2024 Jared: Application to Host Study Abroad Program in Japan with Visits to Nintendo, Sony, Capcom, and Mount Fuji submitted for Summer 2024!09.28.2024 Jared: New Immersive Media and games course "Creative Strategies for Designing Interactive Media" developed for the General Studies Program09.27.2024 Jared: Official Launch of New Game Design Club at NAU! Join the club!09.25.2024 Jared: New Immersive Media and games course "Indigenous Enculturation for Situated Play Design" developed for the General Studies Program09.26.2024 Jared: Guest Lectures for Health Sciences on Serious Games! 09.20.2024 Jared: Presentation of Games for Social Good at Flagstaff's Festival of Science07.01.2024 Jared: Receives NIH LRP Award from the National Institute of Health’s Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders ($50,000)08.26.2024 Jared: Teaching his IMG 186 Course on the History and Theory of Games08.14.2024 Jared: Visiting Lecture at Tufts University on Games for Health06.29.2024 Jared: Hosts NAU's second Game Jam with the theme "Nothing is Permanent."06.20.2024 Chaithanya and Jared: Host Summer intern through CARE Program for Indigenous students05.24.2024 Playful Health Technology Lab featured in Fairness First Blog! Read the blog.05.13.2024 Jared: Attended Ancestral Knowledge: Braiding Curriculum Seminar 1-week workshop for Indigenous pedagogy05.11.2024 Jared: Virtual Reality for Health and Wellbeing of People with Disabilities Panel Published at CHI Conference. Read the Abstract.05.02.2024 Tochukwu and Jared: CardioCare Quest: A Co-Created Game for Improving Hypertension Treatment Adherence funded by SHERC ($100,000)04.18.2024 Jared and Tochukwu: Co-Designing Location-based Games for Broadband Data Collection published in DIS. Read the paper.03.05.2024 Jared: Challenging Ableism: A Critical Turn Toward Disability Justice in HCI published in XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM Magazine for Students. Read the article.02.26.2024 Jared: Winter edition of the SIGACCESS Accessible Computing Newsletter published. Read the article. Read the article.02.12.2024 Jared: Removing Algorithmic Bias and Evaluating Cleft Speech Therapy Game published in RCMI Conference. Read the abstract (Page 113)

2023

10.26.2023 Jared: Reimagining Machine Learning's Role in Assistive Technology by Co-Designing Exergames with Children Using a Participatory Machine Learning Design Probe Published at ASSETS Conference. Read the Paper.10.25.2023 Tochukwu: rated best of the week in I-Corps Medtech for conducting an incredible ten in-person interviews09.22.2023 Tochukwu: accepted into the NSF I-Corps Hub: Desert and Pacific Region08.31.2023 Jared: Summer edition of the SIGACCESS Accessible Computing Newsletter published. Read the article.08.28.2023 Jared: is teaching the inaugural course in the new Immersive Media and Games program at NAU, IMG 18604.19.2023 Jared: NSF Vital Discovery Round award for developing realistic forest simulations in Unreal for K-12 STEM education04.01.2023 Jared: Addressing Speech Health Equity Issues in the Southwestern US Using a Telehealth Speech Therapy Game Proposal Funded ($100,000). Read More.02.16.2023 Jared: presents research to Women Who Compute.01.29.2023 Jared: January edition of the SIGACCESS Accessible Computing Newsletter published. Read the article.01.23.2023 Jared is teaching his course on Advanced User Interfaces.01.23.2023 Jared is teaching his course on Creative Strategies for Designing Interactive Media.

2022

10.23.2022 Jared presents Spellcasters Journal at ASSETS in Greece.08.29.2022 Jared is teaching his course on Accessible Serious Games for Health. Read more.