HCI Games Group's Toxicity Researcher and Noble Bard
Bio
Kaushall Senthil Nathan is a Master's student pursuing a degree in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, under the supervision of Dr. Lennart Nacke and Dr. Daniel Harley. His main goal for research is enhancing the medium of video games. More specifically, the experience with machine learning fundamentals leads to his belief that robust AI technologies can be developed to work alongside players in data-rich environments of video game worlds and serve as moderators to reduce problematic behavior and promote human flourishing. In this vein, Kaushall sees common themes with the research done in the HCI Games lab such as affective gaming and social relationship-building games. Furthermore, believes video games are a powerful medium that has changed millions of people’s lives for the better and so, wants to use the skills and tools available to him to make the medium more expressive and enjoyable to everyone. He believe the people of the HCI Games lab share this belief and I would be proud to work alongside them toward this goal. In the long term, he sees himself working with video game companies to develop and deploy these technologies to consumers around the world, to ensure that video games serve as a vibrant and accessible hobby to all.
Research Interest
He is interested in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in video games. Specifically, he is interested in researching toxic behavior (e.g. verbal abuse) in cooperative games to better understand how to combat it.