Play Research Group UWE

Monday 17 May 2010

9.30am – 6.00pm
UWE Digital Cultures Research Centre
@ Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, UK
 
The Play Research Group at the University of the West of England invites you to participate in a day of presentations and discussions. 

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Programme for the day

9.30 – 10 am Arrival, Coffee & Welcome

10 – 11am  Invited Presentation
Bart Simon
The Contradictions of Control: On the Utter Failure and Promise of Gestural Games
Patrick Crogan: RESPONDENT


11.00 – 11.30 Play Research Group Project Presentation
Seth Giddings & Helen Kennedy
Incremental Speeds Increases Excitement’ Bodies, Space, Movement and Televisual Change

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

12.00 – 1.15 Panel  1:  Gesture, Space &  Rhythm
Mark Paterson
Your move? Conceptualising the sense of movement and kinaesthetic flow in gesture-based interfaces
Kenton O’Hara
Gesture and Performance in Public Screen Gaming
Dan Dixon
Bodies, rhythm and digital games
Rune Klevjer RESPONDENT

1.15 – 2.00 Lunch Break

2.00 - 3.15 Panel 2: Translation, Extension & Absence
Mitu Khandaker
Investigating controller-evoked phenomenological embodiment
Teresa Dillon
The Extended Self
Mark Palmer
Immanence, Involvement and the Immaterial

3.15 – 3.45 Tea Break

3.45 – 5.00 Panel 3: Translating Embodiment:  Mapping Movement
James Ash
Teleplastic Technologies:  Charting Practices of Orientation and navigation in videogaming
Grethe Mitchell
Game Catcher
Elena Marquez
Researching Dance as Interaction

5.00 -5.30

Plenary Discussions
Bart Simon/Patrick Crogan/Seth Giddings/Helen Kennedy


Event Details

Contact: helen.kennedy@uwe.ac.uk for more details
 
There is a £10 fee for the event - lunch and refreshments are included.
 
To book a place at the event please visit gptech.eventbrite.com by 4th May 2010.

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