April 20, 2015

Pamela Jennings on “Field Building” (Media Systems)

In an emerging, interdisciplinary area, how can those getting started understand the possible paths forward? One way is through looking at the (often wending) paths taken by pioneers. In this week’s Media Systems talk from Pamela Jennings (recently-appointed director of the Center for Design Innovation) she provides insight into how she became a field leader, as well as into the work she has done to help the nascent field find its way. Jennings has been a key figure in much of the field development of recent decades, including recent successes such as the NSF’s CreativeIT program and the founding of the SEAD network. (Some related reflections can be found in the Media Systems talks of Brenda Laurel and Janet Murray.)

April 13, 2015

Ken Perlin on “Interdisciplinary Media Technology Research” (Media Systems)

I am happy to announce that we are publishing the final four videos from the Media Systems gathering — and that the final report, “Envisioning the Future of Computational Media,” is now available through print-on-demand!

April 11, 2015

Don’t you love play tests?

https://vine.co/v/eBFut17iE3b
Tiltfactor folks are busy making new Metadata Games! Fun!

April 9, 2015

The Story of How I Mined Twitter

“Isn’t it funny? You’re a woman in science researching about women in science. How about that?” These were some of the first words that my new supervisor, Mary Flanagan, said to me when she saw me working in the lab. On my first day at tiltfactor as a research assistant, a position set up through Dartmouth’s Women in Science Project, I was asked to build a tool to “mine Twitter” for the NSF REAL project. In the haze of my first day, I did not ask questions, just nodded and agreed. I knew Python, the language I used to build the tool, but I had no idea about Twitter development or research.

April 8, 2015

Tilt Team On Fire!

The 2015 Tiltfactor team is bigger and bolder than ever. Dr. Mary Flanagan and her team are currently gathering data in a “Study-Palooza,” our term for enthusiastic and dedicated data collection. This awesome team is focused on the Bioheritage Diversity Library, Metadata Games, Bystander Intervention, Climate Change, and equity in STEM learning, just to name a few themes! Meanwhile, MONARCH and games for Robert Wood Johnson (Gut Check, Bill of Health) are en route to the printers. . .

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