LITA Forum 2009 Keynote

Technical/Tangible/Social
Elizabeth Lane LawleyRIT Lab for Social ComputingLITA National ForumOctober 2009

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“One day we will look back with embarrassment on this era when all of our virtual experiences were trapped behind a screen. This advance will have great implications for the role of games within society, and the wider possibilities of tangible game experiences could make the word ‘game’ insufficient to describe what we are doing.”
- Game design legend Masaya Matsuura
“One day we will look back with embarrassment on this era when all of our virtual experiences were trapped behind a screen. This advance will have great implications for the role of games within society, and the wider possibilities of tangible game experiences could make the word ‘game’ insufficient to describe what we are doing.”
- Game design legend Masaya Matsuura (pioneered the rhythm-based music genre)

“One day we will look back with embarrassment on this era when all of our virtual experiences were trapped behind a screen. This advance will have great implications for the role of computing within society, and the wider possibilities of tangible computing experiences could make the word ‘computing’ insufficient to describe what we are doing.”

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Picture the Impossible:A technical, tangible, social game
Created bythe RIT Lab for Social Computing
andthe Rochester Democrat & Chronicle

Let’s get some programmers together and put on a game!

What? Me worry?
Just remember:technical, tangible, social!

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Learn
Explore
Give
Socialize

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Arts and Crafts
Local Food & Drink
Rochester Firsts
Performing Arts
Imaging & Optics
Famous Figures
Social Justice
Celebration!
September-October 2009

Can you picture an entire community coming together to play a game? A game that helps you learn about your city? A game that encourages you to support local charities?
It may sound impossible, but we don’t think it is. And we’re asking you to join us in picturing the impossible…

Location Games

Challenges
Huge investment (time, money, energy)
Need early connections with local groups
Selection of charities needs to be balanced, and charities need to be fully on-board
Partnerships between organizations with different cultures are really hard
Selling sponsorship and advertising in something so new is also really hard

Despite that…..

2000+Players

150Photosynths

104Recipes

150“First” Photos

~300SCVNGRplayers/week

Learn
✔
Explore
✔
Give
✔
Socialize
✔

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LITA Forum 2009 Keynote

by Elizabeth Lawley on Oct 04, 2009

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