Human Motivation, Gamification and Secrets to Creating Successful Behavioral Programs
March 29, 2016
Interactive Media & Games Seminar. Speaker, Steve Sims. How do Digital Motivation and gamification work and how can they be used to create and maintain user-centric programs that deliver benefits for user and company alike?
The Politicization of Video Games and the Games Media
March 8, 2016
Interactive Media & Games Seminar. Speaker, Colin Campbell. Designers use games to make powerful political arguments. This is a process that has accelerated in the last five years, even while gaming's most powerful publishers have sought to keep their heads down.
Empathic Media: The Case of Gaming
March 1, 2016
Interactive Media & Games Seminar. Speaker, Andrew McStay. Drawing on examples from gaming, in this talk I will outline conceptual principles of empathic media, what they portend for the future, and important but non-obvious critical questions for industry, regulators and privacy groups.
The Long Now of Gaming
February 23, 2016
Interactive Media & Games Seminar. Speaker, Jon Peterson looks at the long shadow that analog wargames and role-playing have cast on the games of today, and explores connections that let us contextualize modern gaming in a rich tradition of intellectual history.
Retrogame Archeology
February 16, 2016
Interactive Media & Games Seminar. Speaker, John Aycock. Retrogame archeology looks under the hood of old games to uncover the clever tricks that make them tick.
The Artification of Games
February 9, 2016
Interactive Media & Games Seminar. Speaker, Kellee Santiago. In this talk, Kellee explores the ways in which video games have both grown in their complexity and receded further into their roots as a commodity sold behind closed curtains in the back of the shop.
Automatically Generating Different Re-Tellings of Stories
February 2, 2016
Interactive Media & Games Seminar. Speaker, Marilyn Walker. When people share experiences in natural settings, they tell stories. In this talk I discuss our work on storytelling agents who retell existing stories, such as personal narratives posted on weblogs.
2016 Global Innovation Leadership Workshop
February 1, 2016
Advanced tools and techniques for enterprise creativity, innovation, and renewal through creative leadership at the intersection of people and technology.
View From The Top: Tim Berners-Lee
January 28, 2016
Speaker, Tim Berners-Lee. In this student-led conversation, Berners-Lee will discuss his reflections and insights on leadership and management.