Hello everyone - I just spent the week at a Larp camp (live action roleplaying) with my kids and absolutely loved it. I’m thinking a Larp about a near future drenched in ethical dilemmas about technology use might be brilliant for research dissemination, teaching, and maybe research too. Conveniently enough, it turns out two of the Larp writers involved with the camp I was at have recently been hired by my university’s freshly renovated museum to facilitate dramatic participatory research dissemination, and they’re keen on developing a larp with me. Do any of you have experience using larping in research dissemination or teaching at university level? Or do you know examples of technology-rich larps? Or have any other suggestions? We’re at a very, very early stage here :) Jill Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen PI of the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life
Katherine Isbister gave a fantastic talk at last year's Meaningful Play about wearables in LARPs and events her lab was involved in. Wearables to indicate if someone was open to touch or not, and to communicate in-game health, etc. https://setlab.ucsc.edu/research-projects/ Alisha Karabinus PhD Candidate, Rhetoric & Composition Purdue University pronouns: she/her On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 8:14 AM Jill Walker Rettberg <Jill.Walker.Rettberg@uib.no<mailto:Jill.Walker.Rettberg@uib.no>> wrote: Hello everyone - I just spent the week at a Larp camp (live action roleplaying) with my kids and absolutely loved it. I’m thinking a Larp about a near future drenched in ethical dilemmas about technology use might be brilliant for research dissemination, teaching, and maybe research too. Conveniently enough, it turns out two of the Larp writers involved with the camp I was at have recently been hired by my university’s freshly renovated museum to facilitate dramatic participatory research dissemination, and they’re keen on developing a larp with me. Do any of you have experience using larping in research dissemination or teaching at university level? Or do you know examples of technology-rich larps? Or have any other suggestions? We’re at a very, very early stage here :) Jill Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen PI of the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Reacting to the Past is a collective that designs roleplaying games for history classrooms: https://reacting.barnard.edu Their materials and process have been refined over decades, resulting in several published books (with games that have been extensively play tested). Also look at their games in development. For example, Rage Against the Machine: Technology, Rebellion, and the Industrial Revolution might be adaptable for your purposes: https://reacting.barnard.edu/node/3518 Games at earlier stages are also on the 'big list of reacting games' -- several touch technology, broadly construed (e.g. physics, photography, etc.): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GkDM2eHFRl5zv0NA7tz6HZKRsKum603sl8k3... They also provide game development resources: https://reacting.barnard.edu/development-resources -Jodi On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 4:24 PM Karabinus, Alisha D <akarabin@purdue.edu> wrote:
Katherine Isbister gave a fantastic talk at last year's Meaningful Play about wearables in LARPs and events her lab was involved in. Wearables to indicate if someone was open to touch or not, and to communicate in-game health, etc. https://setlab.ucsc.edu/research-projects/
Alisha Karabinus PhD Candidate, Rhetoric & Composition Purdue University
pronouns: she/her
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 8:14 AM Jill Walker Rettberg < Jill.Walker.Rettberg@uib.no<mailto:Jill.Walker.Rettberg@uib.no>> wrote: Hello everyone - I just spent the week at a Larp camp (live action roleplaying) with my kids and absolutely loved it. I’m thinking a Larp about a near future drenched in ethical dilemmas about technology use might be brilliant for research dissemination, teaching, and maybe research too. Conveniently enough, it turns out two of the Larp writers involved with the camp I was at have recently been hired by my university’s freshly renovated museum to facilitate dramatic participatory research dissemination, and they’re keen on developing a larp with me.
Do any of you have experience using larping in research dissemination or teaching at university level? Or do you know examples of technology-rich larps? Or have any other suggestions? We’re at a very, very early stage here :)
Jill
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I've done LARPing, but more as a hobby. My professional focus is the use of virtual worlds for education and corporate training. Our education focus is both for university level and for younger students. I see yours as an interesting project both professionally and personally. Please include me in further discussions of your LARP idea. Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations On 6/27/2019 7:14 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote:
Hello everyone - I just spent the week at a Larp camp (live action roleplaying) with my kids and absolutely loved it. I’m thinking a Larp about a near future drenched in ethical dilemmas about technology use might be brilliant for research dissemination, teaching, and maybe research too. Conveniently enough, it turns out two of the Larp writers involved with the camp I was at have recently been hired by my university’s freshly renovated museum to facilitate dramatic participatory research dissemination, and they’re keen on developing a larp with me.
Do any of you have experience using larping in research dissemination or teaching at university level? Or do you know examples of technology-rich larps? Or have any other suggestions? We’re at a very, very early stage here :)
Jill
Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen PI of the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life
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I have never done LARPing myself but am aware of it. I am interested in your project as my research interests are emerging digital technologies and the impact they have on society. I think its a great idea for education purposes and would love to see how this idea develops, so please also keep me in the loop of further discussion too. Kind regards, Kelly Coulter PhD Student - SENSS Digital Scholar University of Essex, UK ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Fred Fuchs <fred@firesabre.com> Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 8:18:46 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; Jill Walker Rettberg Subject: Re: [Air-L] Larp about technology? I've done LARPing, but more as a hobby. My professional focus is the use of virtual worlds for education and corporate training. Our education focus is both for university level and for younger students. I see yours as an interesting project both professionally and personally. Please include me in further discussions of your LARP idea. Fred -- Fred Fuchs - Founder, CEO, & Producer FireSabre Consulting LLC Content Services for Virtual Worlds Creation, Events, Training, & Simulations On 6/27/2019 7:14 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote:
Hello everyone - I just spent the week at a Larp camp (live action roleplaying) with my kids and absolutely loved it. I’m thinking a Larp about a near future drenched in ethical dilemmas about technology use might be brilliant for research dissemination, teaching, and maybe research too. Conveniently enough, it turns out two of the Larp writers involved with the camp I was at have recently been hired by my university’s freshly renovated museum to facilitate dramatic participatory research dissemination, and they’re keen on developing a larp with me.
Do any of you have experience using larping in research dissemination or teaching at university level? Or do you know examples of technology-rich larps? Or have any other suggestions? We’re at a very, very early stage here :)
Jill
Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen PI of the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life
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What a neat idea! As far as things that might touch on similar ideas as LARPing, I think you’d be interested in the work of my collaborator Mike Skirpan, who created an immersive theater experience about data ethics as part of his dissertation, and is currently revamping the production in Pittsburgh. http://mwskirpan.com/ A couple of published papers about it: Skirpan, Michael Warren, Jacqueline Cameron, and Tom Yeh. "More Than a Show: Using Personalized Immersive Theater to Educate and Engage the Public in Technology Ethics." In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 464. ACM, 2018. Skirpan, Michael, Jacqueline Cameron, and Tom Yeh. "Quantified Self: An Interdisciplinary Immersive Theater Project Supporting a Collaborative Learning Environment for CS Ethics." In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 946-951. ACM, 2018. So I think that Mike is an even better connection than me, but insofar as I’m doing some work around science fiction and teaching ethics, I’m interested to hear more about this project! The folks behind this article also have a textbook coming out: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-th... Casey — Casey Fiesler Assistant Professor Department of Information Science University of Colorado Boulder www.caseyfiesler.com<http://www.caseyfiesler.com> @cfiesler On Jun 27, 2019, at 6:14 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg <Jill.Walker.Rettberg@uib.no<mailto:Jill.Walker.Rettberg@uib.no>> wrote: Hello everyone - I just spent the week at a Larp camp (live action roleplaying) with my kids and absolutely loved it. I’m thinking a Larp about a near future drenched in ethical dilemmas about technology use might be brilliant for research dissemination, teaching, and maybe research too. Conveniently enough, it turns out two of the Larp writers involved with the camp I was at have recently been hired by my university’s freshly renovated museum to facilitate dramatic participatory research dissemination, and they’re keen on developing a larp with me. Do any of you have experience using larping in research dissemination or teaching at university level? Or do you know examples of technology-rich larps? Or have any other suggestions? We’re at a very, very early stage here :) Jill Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen PI of the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Thanks so much to everyone who has responded on and offlist! I wrote up a blog post with links to some of the larp projects people have told me about, and some of my ideas. There are some great projects I didn’t know about, and no doubt many others I should know of as well! http://jilltxt.net/?p=4833 Jill ________________________________ From: Casey Lynn Fiesler <casey.fiesler@colorado.edu> Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 2:23 PM To: List Aoir Cc: Jill Walker Rettberg Subject: Re: [Air-L] Larp about technology? What a neat idea! As far as things that might touch on similar ideas as LARPing, I think you’d be interested in the work of my collaborator Mike Skirpan, who created an immersive theater experience about data ethics as part of his dissertation, and is currently revamping the production in Pittsburgh. http://mwskirpan.com/ A couple of published papers about it: Skirpan, Michael Warren, Jacqueline Cameron, and Tom Yeh. "More Than a Show: Using Personalized Immersive Theater to Educate and Engage the Public in Technology Ethics." In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 464. ACM, 2018. Skirpan, Michael, Jacqueline Cameron, and Tom Yeh. "Quantified Self: An Interdisciplinary Immersive Theater Project Supporting a Collaborative Learning Environment for CS Ethics." In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 946-951. ACM, 2018. So I think that Mike is an even better connection than me, but insofar as I’m doing some work around science fiction and teaching ethics, I’m interested to hear more about this project! The folks behind this article also have a textbook coming out: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-th... Casey — Casey Fiesler Assistant Professor Department of Information Science University of Colorado Boulder www.caseyfiesler.com<http://www.caseyfiesler.com> @cfiesler On Jun 27, 2019, at 6:14 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg <Jill.Walker.Rettberg@uib.no<mailto:Jill.Walker.Rettberg@uib.no>> wrote: Hello everyone - I just spent the week at a Larp camp (live action roleplaying) with my kids and absolutely loved it. I’m thinking a Larp about a near future drenched in ethical dilemmas about technology use might be brilliant for research dissemination, teaching, and maybe research too. Conveniently enough, it turns out two of the Larp writers involved with the camp I was at have recently been hired by my university’s freshly renovated museum to facilitate dramatic participatory research dissemination, and they’re keen on developing a larp with me. Do any of you have experience using larping in research dissemination or teaching at university level? Or do you know examples of technology-rich larps? Or have any other suggestions? We’re at a very, very early stage here :) Jill Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen PI of the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
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Casey Lynn Fiesler -
Coulter, Kelly-Ann -
Fred Fuchs -
Jill Walker Rettberg -
Jodi Schneider -
Karabinus, Alisha D