Due to the interdisciplinary nature of work, most projects at GAMES lab involve collaboration between designers, engineers, and social scientists to push the boundaries of how play can engage people in new ways. We believe in an experimental, rather playful, approach to building new knowledge using the research-through-design methodology.

This involves crafting immersive experiences and building play-technology based prototypes, and using them as tools for novel knowledge production and creating societal impact. The output ranges from serious games (digital/tabletop) to tangible interfaces (motion capture, gesture controls, etc.) as well as immersive experiences using augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR/MR).

We maintain high-performance game-development PCs and workstations, the latest VR/MR headsets and spatial trackers, 360° cameras, and popular gaming consoles and peripherals. Our lab also includes specialized sensing equipment including eye-tracking and physiological sensing to measure players’ attention, stress and emotional responses during play.

Finally, we house a growing library of digital and tabletop games. These collections serve as both research benchmarks and teaching materials, ensuring our students and faculty stay grounded in existing game design discourse even as we invent new forms of play.