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SUMMARY:Making Deep Games: An inspirational workshop about harnessing the power of metaphors for experience design
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, attendees will learn how to become more conscious about the mechanisms of complex abstract concepts\, to pin down their evasive elements\, to translate them into concrete rule sets and to make them tangible via procedural metaphors. This workshop aims at demystifying complex abstract ideas such as HONOR\, REGRET\, LOYALTY or JUSTICE by teaching a methodology to analyse and dissect them. It is a step-by-step tutorial to foster awareness\, reflection\, inspiration and a systematic approach to the purposeful design of deep games.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/making-deep-games/
LOCATION:MIT Building N25\, Room 373\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090124
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SUMMARY:GAMBIT: Videogame Company Tours
DESCRIPTION:GAMBIT\, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the government of Singapore created to explore new directions for the development of games as a medium. Philip Tan\, the executive director of US operations for GAMBIT will be leading tours of local video game companies to help you understand the day to day goings on of the rapidly growing video game industry.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gambit-videogame-company-tours/
LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090111T130000
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SUMMARY:Designing Serious Video Games for Autism Research and Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Belmonte \nWhy use video games to do science? Well\, if you’ve ever participated in a psychology experiment\, you probably don’t remember it as being particularly entertaining! This is bad for all concerned\, the scientist isn’t going to get good data unless the subject is engaged with the task. My research group is answering this challenge by embedding experiments in a video game which we use to study autism. I’ll discuss the player-centred\, event-driven design philosophy behind the game\, talk about how neuroscientists and game designers work interactively to make the game relevant to people with autism spectrum conditions\, and describe our goals for making the game a platform not only to measure autistic cognitive skills\, but also to facilitate autistic cognitive skills by removing barriers to their expression.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/designing-serious-video-games-for-autism-research/
LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090115
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SUMMARY:Experience Design Workshop: Taught by Razorfish
DESCRIPTION:Nadya Direkova MIT Alum\, Senior Information Architect\, Razorfish; Generoso Fierro \nBuying e-tickets\, downloading a song\, chatting with friends on Facebook… you live through digital experiences every day. We invite you to learn how these experiences can be designed so that you can easily find and do what you want. Whether you are an engineer or designer\, this course will challenge you to start work by studying users – not technology – first. We’ll talk about user personas\, their moment-by-moment decisions and their full lifecycle relationship with your design. In the first part of the course\, we’ll present classic design practices\, digital trends and analyze experiences that work well and those that don’t. In the second part\, you will create a design document for a website of digital campaign. The class will end with a design competition.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/experience-design-workshop-razorfish/
LOCATION:MIT Building 1\, Room 134\, 33 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260519T170420
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SUMMARY:Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- Jason and Generoso Fav Episodes
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Media Studies’ Jason Begy and Generoso Fierro will be showing their favorite episodes and clips of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Sunday session is FREE.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mst3k-jason-generoso-fav-episodes/
LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090119T160000
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SUMMARY:A short\, practical course on Focus Group Research in Academic and Corporate Settings: The Whys and Hows
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Cheryl K. Olson\, Sc.D.\, who is co-director of the Center for Mental Health and Media at MGH\, and splits her time between academic research and real-world consulting. She’ll use her own focus group studies with teens and parents about video games as teaching examples. \nContent includes: \n\nWhen and why to consider focus groups (qualitative studies) in academic or corporate research.\nUsing focus groups for media research.\nPlanning your research (from research questions to human subjects paperwork).\nDesigning a focus group protocol (questions and procedures).\nBudgets and practical concerns.\nRecruiting participants.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/focus-group-research-in-academic-and-corporate-settings/
LOCATION:MIT Building 26\, Room 142\, 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260519T170420
CREATED:20140804T194429Z
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SUMMARY:19th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
DESCRIPTION:Gather around\, boys and girls of all ages\, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss’s relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film\, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward. No need to enroll! All are welcome.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/19th-annual-salute-to-dr-seuss/
LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260519T170420
CREATED:20150123T192626Z
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SUMMARY:Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)
DESCRIPTION:Checking levels\, making a segue\, cueing vinyl (vinyl-what’s that?). \nGet to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show. Then\, learn some history of WMBR (the first punk rock radio show in the USA)\, have a tour of the station and obtain membership information. \nFreshly baked cookies and milk will be provided because Andy would’ve wanted it that way.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/learn-to-be-college-dj-2009/
LOCATION:MIT Building 50\, Room 030\, 142 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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