Carleton School of Information Technology

CSIT is proud to announce the commercial release of the video game BLOBULAR from our very own Interactive Multimedia Design students Ziyad Shahood, Liz Chevrier, Ciel Lansard, and Celeste Shi. Check it out!
The Blobular Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3980630/Blobular/
The Blobular YouTube release trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcYNsl_6LtY

These 4 students created the game for one of our winter term courses IMD 2006 - Introduction to Computer Game Design & Development

On Friday, December 5, 2025, a public event was held on Carleton’s campus, where students of IMD 4006: Advanced Game Design & Development showcased their final projects.

As part of the event, we hosted a guest talk by Vitalii Boiko, founder of Pixela Labs, an entertainment production company behind several virtual-production workflows used across games, film, enterprise applications, and large-scale digital-twin systems. In his talk, Vitalii shared insights into the development process and production pipelines behind their upcoming tactical game DDoD. The talk focused on the current state of generative AI, its impact on every stage and highlighted its real limitations in today’s game-development workflows, encouraging students to critically reflect on how a real game production process actually works.
Thanks to everyone who made it to the event!

Three post doctorate and students of CSIT presented at the Graphics Interface 2025 conference in Kelowna! Check out their amazing accomplishments.
- Designing Assistive Technologies for Blind or Low Vision Music Learners
o Leon Lu (Leon received the Bill Buxton Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in HCI at the conference)
- Designing for Response Tasks: An Empirical Evaluation of Response Tasks in a Video Game Context
o Naia Kamawar-MacLeod, and Robert Teather
- Rethinking VR Input: Co-Designing Accessible VR Interactions for Gamers with Upper Limb Motor Impairments
o Manya Kakkar, Shanel Wu, Audrey Girouard, and Robert Teather

Carleton School of Information Technology students presented this weekend at the 2025 Level Up Showcase in Toronto 🎮💻🥽 Great job to all of the teams, Code Noir Studios, Nocterra Productions, SideTracked Studio, and Silly Yogurt Cup! Congratulations to Silly Yogurt Cup for taking home Achievement in Accessibility Honourable Mention with their game “The Space Between”!

HAPPENING TODAY!
The BIT Information Resource Management Capstone Fair is here!

Join us at the 2025 IRM Capstone Fair where the finest minds in Information Resource Management and Data Science converge to showcase their groundbreaking projects. Monday, April 7 from 12:00pm-3:00pm ML252, MacOdrum Library.
The event is open to everyone!

HAPPENING NOW!
The BIT Interactive Multimedia and Design 4th Year Capstone Fair is here!

Join us on TODAY, April 4th, from 4:00 to 8:00 PM, first and second floors of Azrieli Pavilion to connect with students, faculty, and professionals in the field — and explore, watch, and play this year’s innovative projects. Check out the projects. link in bio!

The exhibition is open to everyone!

Happy International Women in Tech Day!

We are proud to celebrate Women in Tech Day with the extraordinary women within the Carleton School of Information Technology.
Check out who they are and what they’re working on now!

Dr. Wei Shi: Full Professor

Dr. KC Collins: Associate Professor - Sound in product design: how do we test for the user experience when it comes to sound? What are appropriate methods, and what questions should we be asking?

Dr. Marzieh Amini: Associate Professor; OSS Coordinator - "Enhancing Environmental Perception Systems for Autonomous Vehicles and Critical Infrastructure. Also developing Canadian Wildfire Detection using Multimodal Sensors on UAV Systems."

Dr. Jaisie Sin: Assistant Professor - Virtual Reality for Older Adults

Dr. Audrey Girouard: Associate Professor; Associate Dean, FED – Research

Dr. Lesley Istead: Assistant Professor

HAPPENING NOW!

The BIT Network Technology Capstone Fair is here!

Join us at the 2025 Network Technology Capstone Fair where our amazing NET students gather to showcase their final projects today, Thursday April 3 from 8:00am-1:00pm Nideyinàn Galleria (formerly University Centre)
The event is open to everyone!

The BIT Optical Systems and Sensors Capstone Fair is here!

Join us at the 2025 OSS Capstone Fair where our amazing OSS students gather to showcase their final projects Monday, April 8 from 9:00am-12:00pm Nideyinàn Galleria (formerly University Centre)
The event is open to everyone!

The BIT Information Resource Management Capstone Fair is here!

Join us at the 2025 IRM Capstone Fair where the finest minds in Information Resource Management and Data Science converge to showcase their groundbreaking projects.
Monday, April 7 from 12:00pm-3:00pm ML252, MacOdrum Library.

The event is open to everyone!