Author: Richard Zhao

Congratulations to master’s student Farhan Aslam for getting his work “Voice-Augmented Virtual Reality Interface for Serious Games” accepted as a research paper in the 2024 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)!

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Mohamad Elzohbi for having his paper “ContrastWSD: Enhancing Metaphor Detection with Word Sense Disambiguation Following the Metaphor Identification Procedure” accepted at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources …

We welcome two new graduate students, Matthew McConnell and Parsa Rahmati!

Congratulations to Michael Shomoye for successfully defending his thesis! Michael’s thesis is available here. Michael’s work examines the recognition of emotions (boredom, confusion, etc.) using convolutional neural network in future Virtual Reality-based classrooms, so that …

Today, Dr. Richard Zhao, Dr. Meadow Schroeder, and Dr. Lauren Goegan were invited to present at the Alberta Research Network Symposium organized by the Ministry of Education, on the research work on GEARS, an educational …

Congratulations to Mohamad Elzohbi, Ph.D. candidate in our research group, for winning a Departmental Teaching Assistant Award in the 2022/2023 year!

Congratulations to Yiwei Zhang for having his paper “Enhancing MCTS with Convolutional Autoencoder and Linear Approximator in XCOM-Inspired Environments” accepted at the Tenth AIIDE Workshop on Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Games (EXAG)!

We welcome Mahdi Farrokhi Maleki, new master’s student, in our research group!

We have a new journal publication: Behavioral Modeling of Collaborative Problem Solving in Multiplayer Virtual Reality Manufacturing Simulation Games in the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. Tyler Hartleb, B.Sc. graduate from our …

The Gauntlet has published an article describing our research work: U of C researchers design a computer game to help students with learning disabilities.