Game Education Summit North America 2010 - Presentations

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Serious Games Track
Author or Panel Moderator		Panelists
Monica Evans Assistant Professor University of Texas at Dallas, Arts and Technology Program	Avoiding the Magic Bullet in Educational Games Presentation Summary: How to avoid the “magic bullet” problem in educational game design by adapting specific aspects of learning content as core game mechanics, including two in-development games as case studies.		Serious Games Track
Andrew Smith Lead Character Artist USC Institute for Creative Tec	Panel: A Serious Impact: the future of military training and health promotion in serious games. Check back soon for more information about this presentation...	Patrick Kenny Romana Khan	Serious Games Track
Amith Tudur Game Designer Carnegie Mellon University - Entertainment Technology Center	An Event-Based Data Collection Engine for Serious Games Presentation Summary: This paper deals with the real life implications of multiplayer online games, that can be used to track the behavior of the player and dynamically adapt the game world in real time based on the collected statistics.		Serious Games Track
Claudia McDonald Associate Vice President for Special Projects Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi	Collaboration and compromise Presentation Summary: Teamwork takes compromise. Medical academics and videogame industry collaborators must be willing to learn each other’s culture and lexicon; otherwise, there’s a train wreck just around the bend.		Serious Games Track
Vinod Srinivasan Assistant Professor Department of Visualization, Texas A&M University	Applied Gaming Presentation Summary: This paper argues for the use of “applied gaming” instead of “serious games” as an all-encompassing term to refer to the use of games and gaming-related tools and techniques in other domains.		Serious Games Track
Ann Thai Assistant Director Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop	Wii Are Family: Design Principles for Intergenerational Play Patterns Presentation Summary: The session aims to deliver a greater understanding of how specific game features and mechanics can promote or inhibit adult-child interactions and the potential implications on learning game design for children and families.		Serious Games Track