From left to right: Hannah Stark, Alison Ditner, Sarah Gahr, Arielle Boyes, Carson Flockhart, and Ann Sinyard, April 2014.
Dylan Wijeyaratnam, Elisa White and Akshya Boopalan at the International Association for the Study of Dreams conference in the Netherlands, June 2016.
Ann Sinyard is a USRI awardee who has just finished her degree and her data collection.
Yue is the translator on the Special Project Grant examining dreams and media use in China and Canada
Ali Ditner won at the 2014 IASD dream ball.
Ming-Ni Lee, Taiwanese colleague, and Jayne Gackenbach at the 2014 IASD meeting.
My students and I have just returned from the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in Berkeley, California. We were joined in one of our sessions by a Chinese collaborator, Ming-Ni Lee who is from Tiawan and is pictured below. Next to her is Alison Ditner, me, Arielle Boyes, and Sarah Gahr. Arielle presented her honors thesis and Alison and Sarah presented posters on projects that they were involved with in the past year.
Sarah Gahr and Ali Ditner at the 2014 IASD poster session where they presented.
Research assistants from the 2013-1014 academic year.
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- Luna Xiaoyan Lu & Jayne Gackenbach at IASD conference. Luna helped as a translator during a conference call to Wuhan and is helping with translations for the Chinese study.
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- Jayne Gackenbach, Jordan Olischefski and Beena Kurvilla at MacEwan Graduation 2008
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- Mycah worked in our lab for about a year in 2011-2012. She was interested in the parallels between gaming and meditation.
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- Long time serious gamer, Keyfer has been working in our lab on several grants coding dreams since 2011.
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- Sarah Gahr and Ali Ditner at the 2014 IASD poster session where they presented.
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- 2009 MacEwan Honors Student Hau Trong (Jason) Le
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- Sarah Gahr and Arielle Boyes presented their work on the Hall and VandeCastle dream coding for the social media study.
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- My students and I have just returned from the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in Berkeley, California. We were joined in one of our sessions by a Chinese collaborator, Ming-Ni Lee who is from Tiawan and is pictured below. Next to her is Alison Ditner, me, Arielle Boyes, and Sarah Gahr. Arielle presented her honors thesis and Alison and Sarah presented posters on projects that they were involved with in the past year.
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- From left to right: Hannah Stark, Alison Ditner, Sarah Gahr, Arielle Boyes, Carson Flockhart, and Ann Sinyard.
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- Dan did his honor’s thesis on the relationship between gaming and meditation.
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- These research assistants were excited to meet the man who developed the dream content scale they worked with for so long. This is at the dream ball at the 2013 IASD meeting where they won best group.
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- John Bown 2010 MacEwan Honors Student
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- Arielle joined our lab in 2012 as a third year honors student. She has been involved in our inquiry into social media and dreams.
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- Jayne Gackenbach and Matt Rosie at his 2010 MacEwan Graduation
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- Raelyne Dopko and Jayne Gackenbach at 2010 MacEwan Graduation
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- Carson Flockhart at MacEwan Psychology Conference
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- Arielle Boyes at MacEwan Psychology Conference
Our video game research laboratory began in earnest in the middle of the last decade. Various students have helped and done their undergraduate honours thesis with us. These students and their work are listed below:
Honors Theses:
Wijeyaratnam, D. (2016). Nightmare Protection: Combat or Companionship? (Thesis supervisor).
Guthrie, C. (2016). Contemplative practice versus gaming: A further inquiry. (Thesis supervisor).
Gahr, S. (2015). The Relationship between Dreaming and Self-Construals, Sex Role Orientation and Media Use In Canadians of Differing Ethnic Backgrounds. (Thesis supervisor).
Ditner, A. (2015). Female Gamers and the Nightmare Protection Thesis: A Further Exploration. (Thesis supervisor).
Boyes, A. (2014). An Inquiry Into the Lack of the Nightmare Protection Associated with Video Game Play by Female Gamers. (Thesis supervisor).
Swanston, D. (2011). The Exploration of the Similar Effects of Video Game Play and Meditation/Prayer in Waking and Dreaming Experiences. (Thesis supervisor).
Rosie, M. (2010). Dream Incorporation of Video Game Play as a Function of Interactivity and Fidelity. (Thesis supervisor).
Dopko, R. (2009). The Relationship between Video Game Play, Dream Bizarreness and Creativity. (Thesis supervisor).
Le, H.T. (2009). The Relationship between Video Game Play and Nightmares. (Thesis supervisor).
Olischefski, J. (2008). Individual Differences in Presence and Performance during Video Game Play. (Thesis supervisor).
Kuruvilla, B. (2008). The Effects of Video Game Play on Threat Simulation Dreams. (Thesis supervisor).
Independent Study Students and Research Assistants Past and Present.
John Bown
Mycah Darlington
Alison Ditner
Mary-Lynne Ferguson
Carson Flockhart
Sarah Gahr
M. Kuchinsky
Gabriel A. Mandel
Keyfer Mathewson
Ian Matty
Kimberly Masliuk
Ashley Samaha
Tyler Sample
Misty Tomashewsky
Heather Von Stackelberg
Alexis Zederayko
Current Projects in the lab in addition to the honors thesis above:
1. Video Game Play as Nightmare Protection: First Responders
2. The Association Between Video Game Play, Attention and Change Detection
3. Presence as Measured by Biofeedback Game Controller
4. GEFT and Gaming
5. Social Media Use vs Gaming and Dream Content
6. A cross-cultural analysis of video game play and social media effects on dreams: China and Canada