The document discusses whether gaming can make a better world by presenting arguments from Jane McGonigal and counterarguments. Jane argues that gaming fosters qualities like optimism, social bonds, productivity and purpose that can drive positive change. However, others counter that gaming could enable escapism from real problems or be abused to inspire real-world crimes if not properly regulated. Ultimately, the document says gaming is a tool that could improve the world if used ethically and regulated to avoid potential harms.
Why do some companies flourish while others wither away? I have been looking and some of the most effective companies in the world and these are 7 habits and patterns I have seen over and over again.
Games for Innovation: A Five Year ForecastJane McGonigal
Games provoke powerful positive emotions -- like curiosity, optimism, determination, and a desire to achieve something extraordinary. What if we could bring those same emotions to the workplace? to innovation? to customer relationships? This five-year forecast looks at the opportunity to invent new work practices and business solutions that engage customers, consumers and employees as effectively as a good game.
Public Interest Gaming by Alan GershenfeldRobin Alter
Here is a nice presentation by Alan Gershenfeld covering some the discussion points around public interest gaming which were discussed at the Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco.
Introduction to gamification for Gamification Europe 2019Pete Baikins
Slides from the pre-conference workshop delivered at Gamification Europe 2019 in Berlin. Delivered by Pete Jenkins and Vasilis Gkogkidis. Get up to speed fast with this introduction to Gamification. Covering the trends behind gamification, the science, some great examples and your first tools to start applying gamification.
Why do some companies flourish while others wither away? I have been looking and some of the most effective companies in the world and these are 7 habits and patterns I have seen over and over again.
Games for Innovation: A Five Year ForecastJane McGonigal
Games provoke powerful positive emotions -- like curiosity, optimism, determination, and a desire to achieve something extraordinary. What if we could bring those same emotions to the workplace? to innovation? to customer relationships? This five-year forecast looks at the opportunity to invent new work practices and business solutions that engage customers, consumers and employees as effectively as a good game.
Public Interest Gaming by Alan GershenfeldRobin Alter
Here is a nice presentation by Alan Gershenfeld covering some the discussion points around public interest gaming which were discussed at the Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco.
Introduction to gamification for Gamification Europe 2019Pete Baikins
Slides from the pre-conference workshop delivered at Gamification Europe 2019 in Berlin. Delivered by Pete Jenkins and Vasilis Gkogkidis. Get up to speed fast with this introduction to Gamification. Covering the trends behind gamification, the science, some great examples and your first tools to start applying gamification.
Embed an eight or nine screen slide presentation into the Ning site. The purpose of this presentation is to prime the community members for take a poll and to suggest a product or service in the comment area under the embedded presentation.
A look into how we can dovetail the Sustainable Developmental Goals into our capitalist system. A review of where the world stand on the current issues are also included.
Gamification 101 for employee engagementPete Baikins
Slidedeck from Pete Jenkins' presentation on Gamification for employee engagement delivered at the 3radical Gamification and Interactive Experience Meetup in Singapore on 21st March 2018 at Suntec Convention Centre
NetSpeed Learning Solutions - Thought Leader Webinar Series - Bill Treasurer ...Cynthia Clay
Discover how great leaders create meaningful opportunities for challenge and growth
People and organizations grow and develop when they intentionally pursue goals and challenges that stretch their skills and test their mettle. This workshop focuses on aligning the needs of the organization with the career aspirations of those they lead. Great leaders are opportunity-creators; they "open doors" of opportunity for others.
Drawing on the concepts introduced in the bestselling leadership training book, Leaders Open Doors (ATD Press, 2014), participants learn radically simple ways to help people and organizations grow by creating challenging and meaningful opportunities. The emphasis is on equipping participants with specific actions and take aways that can be immediately applied back on the job. A leader has two primary jobs; 1. Leave the organization better off than you found it, and 2. Leave people better off than you found them. This webinar will help leaders accomplish both!
Video games and simulations with statistics, visual examples and research by Colorado Technical University doctoral students on game design hosted by Dr. Cynthia Calongne.
Features highlights from Jane McGonigal's Spring 2014 CTU Keynote Address and research, her ISTE EPIC Leadership game with Peggy Sheehy. Dr. Andrew Stricker's games at Air University, Dr. Fil Arenas and Dr. Tony Cook, the Mars Expedition Strategy Challenge with Mike McCrocklin and Jeanne Holm, and Will Wright's Bar Karma.
Embed an eight or nine screen slide presentation into the Ning site. The purpose of this presentation is to prime the community members for take a poll and to suggest a product or service in the comment area under the embedded presentation.
A look into how we can dovetail the Sustainable Developmental Goals into our capitalist system. A review of where the world stand on the current issues are also included.
Gamification 101 for employee engagementPete Baikins
Slidedeck from Pete Jenkins' presentation on Gamification for employee engagement delivered at the 3radical Gamification and Interactive Experience Meetup in Singapore on 21st March 2018 at Suntec Convention Centre
NetSpeed Learning Solutions - Thought Leader Webinar Series - Bill Treasurer ...Cynthia Clay
Discover how great leaders create meaningful opportunities for challenge and growth
People and organizations grow and develop when they intentionally pursue goals and challenges that stretch their skills and test their mettle. This workshop focuses on aligning the needs of the organization with the career aspirations of those they lead. Great leaders are opportunity-creators; they "open doors" of opportunity for others.
Drawing on the concepts introduced in the bestselling leadership training book, Leaders Open Doors (ATD Press, 2014), participants learn radically simple ways to help people and organizations grow by creating challenging and meaningful opportunities. The emphasis is on equipping participants with specific actions and take aways that can be immediately applied back on the job. A leader has two primary jobs; 1. Leave the organization better off than you found it, and 2. Leave people better off than you found them. This webinar will help leaders accomplish both!
Video games and simulations with statistics, visual examples and research by Colorado Technical University doctoral students on game design hosted by Dr. Cynthia Calongne.
Features highlights from Jane McGonigal's Spring 2014 CTU Keynote Address and research, her ISTE EPIC Leadership game with Peggy Sheehy. Dr. Andrew Stricker's games at Air University, Dr. Fil Arenas and Dr. Tony Cook, the Mars Expedition Strategy Challenge with Mike McCrocklin and Jeanne Holm, and Will Wright's Bar Karma.
"Everything I need to know I learnt from World of Warcraft": why we might nee...Martin Oliver
Ascilite 2010 keynote
"Everything I need to know I learnt from World of Warcraft": why we might need to start asking better questions about games, simulations and virtual worlds
Like many areas of educational technology research, a lot of the work that focuses on games, simulations and virtual worlds consists of case studies that demonstrate proof of concept, enthusiastic position pieces or success stories. All of this is important: we need to know what sort of things we can use these technologies to do, so as to build a broader repertoire of teaching practices. However, this kind of focus neglects a range of other questions and issues that may prove more important in the longer term.
For example, educational research about games typically emphasises the way that playing motivates players; it ignores how successful games (such as massively multiplayer online games) often feel like work, and it also glosses over the way that bringing a game inside the curriculum changes the way that 'players' relate to it. There are also inconsistencies in the way games are thought about: the idea that they cause violence is often criticised as over-simplistic, yet the idea that they cause learning isn't. In virtual worlds, opportunities to create new identities is widespread, but questions about how this relates to our embodied relationships are rarely asked. In simulations, 'realism' is celebrated - but this means that simulations will always be second best to actual experiences, and it ignores how groups can disagree about whether something is realistic or not. Across this work, the complexity of learning and teaching seems hidden by the desire to promote the value of these technologies.
This talk will offer some examples of work that, in small ways, try to engage with these kinds of issue. Different priorities will be suggested, which invite a new kind of engagement with research and practice in this area.
Learning to Make Your Own Reality - IGDA Education Keynote 2009Jane McGonigal
What new kinds of games will we play in the future, and what key knowledge and skills will game developers need to invent them? Futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal argues that over the next decade, games will become a powerful interface for managing our real work, organizing society, and optimizing our real lives. Increasingly, she predicts, game developers will be charged with the task of making people happier, smarter, friendlier, greener, and healthier -- and hundreds of millions of new gamers will be playing together at home, at school, at work, and everywhere in between. The result? Game design and development expertise will become a sought-after talent in virtually every industry and field, from Fortune 500 companies to top government agencies. Indeed, the future is brighter for game developers than ever before. But making games that aim to improve our quality of life and to re-invent society as we know it will require a new set of design skills and content expertise beyond what we traditionally teach in game programs. In this keynote, you'll find out the top five design competencies (such as 'technology foresight' and the ability to generate and measure 'participation bandwidth') and the five most important subject areas (such as positive psychology and mass collaboration) for this new class of reality-changing game developers.
The key takeaway of this talk: We can live in any world we want but only if we teach the next generation of game developers what they need to know in order to imagine and make new and better realities.
Games are powerful. People can spend a lot of time playing games. Games are also great motivators. People do things that don´t even like, if they feel like they are playing game. Gamififcation is the use of game mechanics to motivate people to do stuff they generally would not do.
In this lecture I will show that playing video games is not only for fun, but it is very good for you. People that play video games are just smarter!
Interest is growing in gamification, the use of game techniques and mechanics to engage and motivate. Future predictions suggest that this interest will continue to grow especially in the use of games to change individual behavior. The challenge lies in creating a campaign that is engaging and personally relevant so audiences will voluntarily spend time with it. Humans have been playing games in various forms since the days of the caveman, and competition is deeply ingrained in the human psyche. Fast forward to the modern era with the significant free time that people have today, and gaming has become a hugely popular and tremendously profitable industry. With this wide acceptance of gaming and the emergence of the technology available through the internet, smart phones, and tablets people have become more open to game mechanics in other parts of their lives. Frequent flyer programs, Starbucks, and Nike+ iPod are just some examples of how people around the world are accruing points, leveling up, and earning rewards. As a result, gamification is becoming a powerful tool through which organizations teach, persuade, and motivate people.
The Business of Family-Friendly Mobile Gaming | Brian LovellJessica Tams
Delivered at Casual Connect Europe 2019. This talk will provide a rapid-fire overview of the future of the mobile gaming industry and the potential impact “always on” gaming has on young gamers. We will discuss the balance between ethics, responsibility and making money; the influence of influencers; how governments are beginning to play a bigger role; and what this all means for game developers (content opportunities).
Epic Win - Why Gaming is the Future of LearningJane McGonigal
Why doesn't the real world seem more like an online game? In the best-designed games, our human experience is perfectly optimized: we have important work to do, we're surrounded by potential collaborators, and we learn quickly and in a low-risk environment. When we're playing a good online game, we get constant useful feedback, we turbo-charge the neurochemistry that makes challenge fun, and we feel an insatiable curiosity about the world around us. None of this is by accident. In fact, game developers have spent three decades figuring out how to make us happier and more collaborative, how to make learning more fun and social, and how to satisfy our hunger for meaning and success. And all of these game-world insights can be applied directly to amplify and augment the way we teach, learn, and do research in the real world. In this talk, you'll learn how online game methods and mechanics can transform our learning communities - and help re-invent higher education as we know it.
Dr. McGonigal is the Director of Game Research & Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California.
Pixel-Lab / Games:EDU / Matt Southern / Graduating Gamespixellab
"The film industry was just a century of preparation for what we do", said Matt Southern of game developers while talking about development practices at Evolution Studios and the future of video games.
For more information visit:
http://www.pixel-lab.co.uk
http://www.gamesedu.co.uk
Principles to Gamify the Online Philanthropic CrowdfundingNicola Terrenghi
A Gamification Framework Applied to Kiva.org.
This thesis treats the exploitation of gamification to engage and coordinate users on philanthropic
crowdfunding platforms.
Crowdfunding platforms strive to gain new users and to maximise their impact through the
design of engagement mechanisms. Social networks integration and mobile user experience
are only few of the several techniques to engage users and foster their activity. “All-or-nothing”
constraint, which enables the capital delivery only in case of campaign-goal achievement, aims
at increasing crowd efficiency, encouraging coordination among platform users.
Although the last six years were marked by the boom of crowdfunding industry, many users
are still “peripheral”: they rarely or never take action. Kiva.org, the philanthropic platform I
focused my thesis on, counts about one third of users that have never made a loan and 16% of
lenders that have made one loan only.
I approached the problem of users engagement and coordination suggesting the application
of gamification to philanthropic crowdfunding platforms. In particular, I designing the Gamification
Wheel, a gamification framework addressed to crowdfunding organizations. Through
the framework, I aimed at facilitate organizations in designing an effective gamification system,
via both a user-centric method and a business oriented approach.
Through my research I found out that gamification can be exploited to foster several user
actions, not only donation or lending but also contents sharing and team building. Moreover, I
experienced gamification design as a process instead of a set of game elements. In this regard,
after interviewed three field experts to validate the framework, I designed Impact to show that
game elements are just a mean to the design of an effective gamification system.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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