HCII Seminar Series - David Gagnon
Speaker
David Gagnon
Scientist III, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin - Madison
When
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Where
Newell Simon Hall - Room 1305
Video
Video link
Description
"Developing a New Public Media and Open Research Platform with Video Games"
Joan Cooney and her contemporaries transformed 1970s television into a platform for public education and inclusion. Programs such as Sesame Street coordinated designers, artists and researchers to not only reach an estimated 88 million viewers, but also study the outcomes. Today, video games offer a similar opportunity—but one that remains largely unrealized within current academic or public media models. In this talk, I will share a new public distribution platform called the Vault, for sharing video games with large audiences. I will also introduce Open Game Data, the research component of the project, comprised of a technical and social infrastructure for conducting open science with game data.
Speaker's Bio
David Gagnon is the Director of Field Day, a games studio and research laboratory in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Field Day’s games are played millions of times yearly, primarily in school contexts, and have won dozens of awards. Field Day’s research revolves around the use of game data to inform design, theory, teaching and learning at scale by teaming researchers and artists with computers.
Speaker's Website
https://fielddaylab.wisc.edu/
Host
Erik Harpstead