Jan 12 Notes on Student Interests

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IAT 842 Jan 12 Notes

Terry Lavender – John Bowes

  • Can video games be effective as agents of social change
  • Progressive agenda
  • Design a game as a change agent
  • Wants to learn about designing video games

Leonard Paul – music minor – no advisor

  • Audio & computer games
  • Works in the business

Doreen Leo – Bio, Art, photo - Wakkary

  • Nature museum audio interaction
  • Wants game design methodologies, techniques

Nis – Communication + cultural theory – no advisor

  • Games & edu
  • Wants to examine best practices of game design

Daniel Ha – serious games for health care

  • Health care games
  • Collaborative play and work – how to represent?

Leslie - Graphic design

  • Interested in games

Emily Yao – CS - no advisor yet

  • HCI + Info Vis

Wei – SIAT graduate – online games – Thecla (Interim)

  • Online culture
  • Object interaction, avatar clothing, how clothing affects player behavior
  • Does a dress code online foster a better game story?

Huaxin – CS ugrad – Tom Calvert

  • Story based games
  • How do you organize story materials for a game
  • Visualize narrative structures
  • Some people have used UML to visualize film narratives