Yifat Shaik, York University

Research

video games game development Amazon Alexa Digital Humans Alternative Reality Games Chatbots Voice AI Gender Representation

Latest funding

I Want To Be Invisible: an Alternative Reality Game utilizing voice AI assistant and digital humans to examine the human-machine relationship.
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$57,513

All 1 grants and awards

I Want To Be Invisible: an Alternative Reality Game utilizing voice AI assistant and digital humans to examine the human-machine relationship.

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Shaik, Yifat

Keywords: video games; game development; Amazon Alexa; Digital Humans; Alternative Reality Games; Chatbots; Voice AI; Gender Representation; Feminism; Social Media

$57,513

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: video games Dear Professor Shaik, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on video games connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "I Want To Be Invisible: an Alternative Reality Game utilizing voice AI assistant and digital humans to examine the human-machine relationship." (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]