House of Game//Play talk: Recent adventures in virtual worlds - some traveller's tales
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This document provides an overview of SRI International, a research institute founded by Stanford University. It discusses SRI's history, areas of research including virtual worlds and gaming, educational programs, and intellectual property. The document was written by John Murray, the program director of SRI's computer science lab, and shares some of his experiences with virtual worlds research.
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House of Game//Play talk: Recent adventures in virtual worlds - some traveller's tales
- 1. john murray program director computer science lab (jxm@sri.com) recent adventures in virtual worlds: some traveller's tales
- 2. stanford research institute SRI originally founded by Stanford University in 1946
- 3. a world-leading independent R&D organization • ~2200 staff members • $4 billion in sponsored R&D in the last decade • $540 million in annual revenue • 4,000 issued patents • millions of lives improved or saved by SRI innovations • 70 years of significant contributions to society • 60+ spin-off companies “The soul of Silicon Valley” SRI headquarters, Menlo Park, CA SRI Sarnoff, Princeton, NJ SRI Washington, D.C.SRI Tokyo, JapanSRI Harrisonburg, Virginia SRI St. Petersburg, Florida 3
- 6. multidisciplinary research and development advanced materials, microsystems, and nanotechnology oceanography and space systems information technology biotechnology and health sciences learning and education systems technology ventures and economic development Silicon Valley
- 7. identity in gaming worlds 77 explore links between the real world characteristics of MMOG gamers and their online behaviors, habits, and actions behaviour patterns in gaming worlds
- 8. 8 real world lab studies real world fieldwork popular VWs fieldwork closed VW lab studies unifying demographics survey VW/RW data collection strategy
- 12. 12
- 18. 18 18 audit-able data collection trail on player's progress helps cross-check external real-world observations enables comparison across multiple game environments useful types of telemetry millisecond timestamped in-game movement, activity, etc. host platform tech information, network performance, etc. menu access, player viewpoints, camera movements mouse usage, hot-keys, other input devices, etc. telemetry streams in digital games
- 19. multimodal data analysis tools in-game telemetry data decisions/choices resources & risks design selections self-representation behaviors/actions movement patterns hesitance & persistence grouping behaviors video/audio data Screenflow, FRAPS Tobii, Noldus, etc. text entry/commands communication activity hot keys, script execution analytical tool chest predictive machine learning feature selection associative rules linguistics/text analysis NLP, communication behavior labeling/naming preferences video/audio data voice recognition video data interpretation gaze tracking, engagement coding/annotation techniques statistical techniques demographic/contextual effects formative assessment data
- 20. merging quantitative and qualitative analyses
- 21. 21 studies of educational games
- 22. 22 studies of educational games
- 23. 23 studies of educational games
- 24. 24 studies of educational games
- 25. 25 studies of educational games
- 27. 27 VEs for technical training semantically-enabled automated assessment in VEs collaboration between learners and lesson authors augmented reality mentor for maintenance technicians see-thru head-mounted display, interactive audio simulated manufacturing and prototyping toolset use robotics viz tools, 3D-printing for field repairs
- 28. VEs for technical training
- 29. 29 supporting qualitative research: challenges and insights blending methods and techniques across disciplines establishing common inquiry languages and frameworks mapping existing theories into unfamiliar territories characteristics of leadership – real world vs virtual world new dimensions for assessing/understanding expertise adjusted cultural norms for VW vs RW behaviours alternate views on play authorisation, server access, etc.
- 30. strengthening human adaptive reasoning and problem-solving
- 31. can a person's basal ganglia be used to identify them? 31 involuntary motor control automated action selection procedural learning of routines
- 32. games as innovative authentication tools 32
- 33. dasher software keyboard for people with limited input capability zoom through a 2D alphabet space to enter text material open source (GPL), available for a variety of platforms
- 34. crypto-dasher explore potential use in cortical cryptography applications end-to-end security linking authentication and text input 9/3/2016 CSL Program Review 34
- 35. crypto-dasher 9/3/2016 CSL Program Review 35 initial work on improving the input options (touch & tilt) instrument Dasher to collect data about input patterns can any of those patterns be used to identify the user?
- 36. crowd-sourcing of software reliability: Improve the quality of critical software and embedded systems, by transforming the formal verification process into fun and easy-to-play computer games
- 37. Xylem Gameplay
- 38. an uninhabited jungle island full of never-before-seen plant species. what will you discover? xylem: the (code) of plants 38
- 39. 39 xylem: the (code) of plants
- 40. 40 xylem: the (code) of plants
- 41. 41 xylem: the (code) of plants
- 42. 42 xylem: the (code) of plants
- 43. 43 xylem: the (code) of plants
- 44. Xylem Gameplay
- 45. crowd-sourcing and citizen science aimed at people who..... care about an important issue at hand may –or may not– have much domain knowledge are keen to help solve science problems would like to learn more about these issues enjoy participating and feeling “science-y” want to meet and communicate with others share their ideas, challenges, and interests
- 46. binary fission
- 47. binary fission
- 48. binary fission
- 49. binary fission
- 52. 52 52 hat creek radio observatory search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)
- 53. 53 worldwide annual game making festival 2-day event, started 2009 2016: 600+ sites in 95 countries ~7k games, >25k game-makers www.globalgamejam.org global game jam
- 54. 54 global game jam worldwide annual game making festival 2-day event, started 2009 2016: 600+ sites in 95 countries ~7k games, >25k game-makers www.globalgamejam.org
- 55. 55 fri 20 – sun 22 january 2017 site registration starts in september www.globalgamejam.org
- 56. • creativity • innovations • new ideas • inventions
- 58. • patents • licenses • royalties • copyrights • trade secrets intellectual property intellectual property
- 60. some questions of intellectual property ownership and rights
- 61. 61
- 62. 62 Can students contribute to inventions? "Yes, a student can even be the sole contributor or inventor. As a ground rule, ownership to an invention (or ownership to an ideal share of an invention) made by a student lies with the student....." [exceptions may apply if the work involves sponsored projects or employment duties.]
- 64. john murray (jxm@sri.com) recent adventures in virtual worlds: some traveller's tales all questions answered.... ...all answers questioned! alle tvivl besvaret.... ...alle svar betvivlet!