Konstantin Mitgutsch: “Purposeful Games: Research & Design”
A new trend of designing video games intended to fulfill a serious purpose through impacting the players in real life contexts has emerged.
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Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United States
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Games and Journalism
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHeather Chaplin on "emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences."
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Meaningful Gamification: Motivating through Play Instead of Manipulating through Rewards
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesScott Nicholson discussing how meaningful gamification is the use of design concepts from games and play to help people find personal connections to a real-world setting.
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Miguel Sicart: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesGames scholar Miguel Sicart of the IT University of Copenhagen looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
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Sandbox Summit@MIT, “Innovation by Design: Inspirations for Playful Learning”
MIT Stata Center 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSandbox Summit@MIT 2014 will present some of the minds behind—and in front of—today’s evolutionary ideas, platforms, places and products. From toys and games to schools, museums, media and marketing, presenters will delve into the purposeful designs that power playful learning.
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MIT Open House, with CMS/W Events
On April 23, 2016, MIT hosts a campus-wide open house, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute's work.
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What Playfulness Can Change
Location To Be DeterminedExploring playfulness and its business applications. Three workshops on January 12, 19, and 26.
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Christopher Weaver, “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesProfessor Christopher Weaver, Founder of Bethesda Softworks, will discuss how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.
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Matthew Berland, “Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMatthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.