Category: Education
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Inventing Interaction through Play: Paul Rothman & Jordi Borras of littleBits
littleBits is the rapid prototyping and high quality educational toy for interaction design. An ambitious variety of electronic modules snap together with colourful magnetic connectors to build robots, musical instruments, toys, home automation devices, and wearables. One notable example, Ringly, a “smart ring” which vibrates and illuminates when you get a notification, raised $5.1 million…
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Flexible Collaborative Work Space and the Changing Landscape of Games: Frank Lantz of NYU Game Center
Frank Lantz is the Director of the NYU Game Center at Tisch School of the Arts, which has a 2-year MFA Game Design Program underway, and an undergrad BFA starting next fall. Students approach games as culture and there isn’t as much of a technical focus as other programs. Because good game design comes out…