Fall Institute 2018 Agenda

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[highlight]Sunday November 4, 2018[/highlight]

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Our theme — How do we make goodness attractive? (per Fred Rogers)

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Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018

4:00 Check in Creekside Room
5:00 PM Annual “State of Children’s Interactive Media” Panel.

Let’s define the topics that will help us form discussions over the next three days. This year’s guiding theme? Making Goodness Attractive (per Fred Rogers). With Jesse Schell, Robin Raskin, Daren Carstens, Barbara Chamberlin, and Keli Winters

Essential topics:

  • Examples of “making goodness attractive”
  • Schools
  • Toys/Robotics
  • Video Games (Labo)
  • Research
  • Emerging technologies: AR, VR and location based IM
  • Social Media: How should Facebook, Google (YouTube), Amazon, Netflix and Apple handle kids?
  • Fortnite What is Fornite? (link donated by from Claire Green)
  • The challenge of making goodness attractive — What would Fred Rogers do with today’s interactive media?

emily-and-barbIntroductions (Riverside Room)

7:00 Introductions
7:30 The Making of Facebook Messenger Kids

Emily Schlemmer, UX Researcher at Facebook & Barbara Chamberlin, Professor at NMSU Learning Games Lab.

When Facebook began making an age appropriate communication experience for kids, they started with research.

Emily Schlemmer will share their process for doing grounded research in the needs of kids and families, discuss the way several research sites and projects influenced the product design, and discuss what they learned from kids about what the final product should be.

Barbara Chamberlin will share the work their lab did in design-based research and user testing to complement Facebook’s own research.

Following the talk, participants will have a chance to play — through demos, informal discussion, demos and exploration.

 

 

 

[highlight]Monday, November 5[/highlight]

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8:30 UNDERLYING THEORIES OF MAGIC (Introduction to the Interactive Designer’s Cookbook)
It turns out that making magic isn’t really so magical.

9:00 Designer Brainsprints (part 1) with Daren Carstens and Barbara Chamberlin

Screen Shot 2018-09-22 at 2.08.58 PM10:00 Carolyn Handler Miller, Author, Digital Storytelling, 3rd Edition
Storytelling in Physical Spaces

10:45 Demos

11:00 Mark Schlichting, CEO, Noodleworks
Playing with Disequilibration — How Learning Applied Theory Makes Better Games

11:45 Demos

12:00 Group Photo/Lunch; a non-augmented, non-virtual lunch

CASE STUDIES
Here’s an inside look at some current projects, and some encounters with some dust and magic.

1:00 Krista Marks CEO, Woot Math
ALCHEMY – Lessons Learned Striving to Create Magic

1:30 Vikas Gupta, CEO, Wonder Workshop
Our attempt to “make goodness attractive” at Wonder Workshop

2:00 Designer Brain Sprints Part 2. An active way to address some of the problems facing children’s media designers.

 

4:00 Break (on your own for an early supper or general break. Your chance to venture to another state — Pennsylvania — and cross the river from George Washington’s point of view. Note that dinner is on your own).

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Screen Shot 2018-09-22 at 2.56.38 PM7:00 VR and AR: What’s Now, What’s Next? by Jesse Schell, CEO Schell Games and Professor, ETC at Carnegie Mellon University

8:45 Panel Dust or Magic 2018 speakers Chris Byrne, Robin Raskin, Barbara Chamberlin, Emmet O’Neill, Jim Marggraff and Mark Schlichting will react to Jesse’s talk, and discuss the cultural implications of the latest technologies. We’ll take as many questions as possible from other speakers and the audience. This is a free, public presentation accessible to IMM students.

9:30 Bus departs from TCNJ to the Inn at Lambertville Station.

10:00 Informal discussion and technology exploration (Riverside room)

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[highlight]Tuesday, November 6[/highlight]

Screen Shot 2018-08-22 at 3.36.31 AM7:30 Breakfast

VISIONARIES

8:30 Q/A with Chris Byrne, TTMP. Toys / Tech / Trends

9:00 Shuli Gilutz (via Skype). Designing for Children’s Rights

9:30 Robin Raskin, CEO, Living in Digital Times
Four (or so) Technology Revolutions Shaping the Next Generation

10:00 Susan Rivers, CEO, iThrive Games
Designing for Teens A top ten list will be presented, with a chance for discussion.

10:30 Jim Marggraff, Creator of the LeapPad, Founder Eyefluence
What have we learned this year, and what can we expect for 2019?

11:30 Review. What did we learn?

If you’re staying in the Inn, make sure you checkout of your room by 10:00 AM. It is OK to store bags in the Riverside room.

12:00 Lunch

12:20 Transbridge bus #1 (requires ticket) leaves to Newark Liberty, arriving 1:35 PM (for early flights). Note that departure is from the Hess Station, 5 blocks from the Inn.

1:30 Dust or Magic bus (free) departs to Newark Liberty International Airport, arriving 2:45 PM

1:55 Transbridge bus #2 (requires ticket) departs to Newark Liberty Airport, arriving 3:15 PM

5:50 PM the last Transbridge bus departs to Newark Liberty Airport, arriving 7:15 PM (departs from the Hess Station, 5 blocks from the Inn). You can buy tickets from the Valparaiso Deli, Rt 165 & Rt 518, 609-397-1116

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