Content tagged "play"
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What Playfulness Can Change
Exploring playfulness and its business applications. Three workshops on January 12, 19, and 26.
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Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
Schrier argues that knowledge games are potentially powerful because of their ability to motivate a crowd of problem solvers within a dynamic system while also tapping into the innovative data processing and computational abilities of games.
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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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E-Sports Broadcasting
A look at e-sports broadcasting within the larger sports media industrial complex, e-sportscasters, and the economics behind the growing e-sports industry.
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Featured work from NYU’s Helen Nissenbaum
Ahead of Thursday’s talk with Helen Nissenbaum — an NYU professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science — we’d like to share some of her featured work, including her new book with Mary Flanagan, who spoke at CMS/W earlier this year.
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My Pins Are My Dreams: Pinterest, Collective Daydreams, and the Aspirational Gap
The socially-networked nature of Pinterest allows a new type of malleable, global and taste-based community to develop that can engage in collective imaginative play.
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Sandbox Summit@MIT, “Innovation by Design: Inspirations for Playful Learning”
Sandbox 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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Podcast and Liveblog: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery” with Miguel Sicart
Miguel Sicart looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
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Miguel Sicart: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery”
Games 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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Meaningful Gamification: Motivating through Play Instead of Manipulating through Rewards
Scott 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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MIT Overseer Observer Mod for StarCraft 2
The MIT Overseer project aims to provide casters with real-time graphics to help them tell the story of a game while it is in progress.
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Games and Journalism
Heather Chaplin on “emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences.”
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Podcast: Konstantin Mitgutsch, “Tracing Playographies: Methods and Approaches to Research Transformative Experiences in Video Games”
What methods are appropriate for researching how players put meaning into their games and how their biographies reflect these experiences?
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Podcast: Jeremy Douglass, “Visualizing Play: Graphic Approaches to Game Analysis and Innovation”
Jeremy Douglass on the applications of information visualization to games: for theory, historical research, design, development, and creative art practice.
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Podcast: Konstantin Mitgutsch, “Purposeful Games: Research & Design”
What are the specific attributes of purposeful games and how can they be researched?
