TAG: serious about games. Babies and our emotions. Accounting class software.
Concordia in the news
Posted on June 15, 2015
Researchers in the news
The scholarly work of Concordia faculty and researchers informs and improves society on many issues that affect our daily lives. Visit the Research section to read news stories involving research at Concordia, or read the most recent items here:
- Le Devoir writes about Concordia's multi-disciplinary Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) center and its annual game-lab summer camp, "Critical Hit". TAG co-founders Lynn Hughes, associate professor in the Department of Studio Arts, and Bart Simon, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, are pictured and Hughes is quoted.
- Lynn Hughes is featured in a second article in Le Devoir, where she discusses the rise of digital gaming as an integral component of contemporary culture.
- National Public Radio reports on research led by recent PhD graduate in clinical psychology Sabrina Chiarella into how children pick up emotional markers from adults. The study demonstrated how infants can detect whether a person’s emotions are justifiable in a given context. The article is reprised by GPB News.
- IT Online is the latest to write about research by Emilio Boulianne, professor in the Department of Accountancy and director of the CPA Research Center in Accountability, into the use of accounting software in accounting courses. Boulianne's study focuses on the use of such software to maximize knowledge acquisition.