All posts by PoNG Center

Last year, PoNG Center’s Director Leanne Chukoskie was invited to give a talk in Hyderbad, India at INK2018: Billionaires of Moments. She shares the truth behind the harsh employment rate in the Autism community, our efforts in combating this statistics, and the research that began this journey.

NBC 7 San Diego’s coverage on Driving Simulator created by PoNG Center, which is used for the Distracted Driving study by Training, Research and Education for Driving Safety (TREDS) program.

Games support mastery, exploration — they’re safe ways to try out things.

Leanne Chukoskie, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist, UCSD Qualcomm Institute, Director, Power of NeuroGaming Center

Research on Autism and Development Lab (RADLab), located just outside of the UCSD main campus, is a sister lab to PoNG Center. RADLab’s director Jeanne Townsend and PoNG’s director Leanne Chukoskie’s research on attention in individuals with Autism has brought forth the suite of attention training games that helped create Power of NeuroGaming Center and BrainLeap Technologies to further spread the scientific, evidence-based intervention.

This article dives into the world of intervention games for the Autism community and the research behind them.

Read the full article here on sciencemag.org, by Sarah DeWeerdt

Experience is the best teacher, and hackathons are all about experience. In this hackathon weekend, participants will use eye and movement sensors to create games. Prizes will be awarded to teams that demonstrate the most effective use of motion controls, the most creative use of motion controls, and the best game using motion controls.