Spring 2023
When will artificial intelligence really pass the test?
Washington State University computer scientists help to measure AI. » More ...
Video games
Winter 2022
Wide world of esports
In a thrilling finish to the tournament, Team “Candy Shop,” composed of students from Washington State University’s Tri-Cities and Vancouver campuses, came back from a 0-2 deficit to defeat a Pullman-based team 3-2 in the tournament’s final round.
But this game took place not on turf or court, but in a Rocket League video game in the first-ever WSU Global Gauntlet. The March and April 2022 event launched WSU’s esports through Global Campus.
Esports, alternatively known as competitive video gaming, allows students to compete remotely in a wide variety of video games and gaming platforms. The … » More …
Fall 2022
Virtually — from all perspectives
Chris Chin blurs the lines between architecture in the real world and environments in the virtual world. » More ...
Fall 2019
What’s missing in video gaming
Video games and gaming technology offer good, bad, and ugly aspects: potential for innovative education, but often racist and misogynistic stereotypes in some games. Washington State University faculty research all those dimensions. » More ...
Fall 2019
The evidence that video game violence leads to real-world aggression
A 2018 meta-analysis found that there is a small increase in real-world physical aggression among adolescents and pre-teens who play violent video games. Led by Jay Hull, a social psychologist at Dartmouth College, the study team pooled data from 24 previous studies in an attempt to avoid some of the problems that have made the question of a connection between gaming and aggression controversial.
Many previous studies, according to a story in Scientific American, have been criticized by “a small but vocal cadre of researchers [who] have argued much of the work implicating video games has serious flaws in that, among other things, it measures … » More …