New research at the Tiltfactor Game Research Laboratory at Dartmouth College indicates that people’s thinking about public health policies and spending priorities can be shifted through a novel new game genre--role playing sports. A key challenge in public health in the United States is lowering costs by focusing on...
Tiltfactor is proud to announce the NEH and IMLS Co-Funded event to discuss Future of Crowdsourcing at #crowdcon Hanover NH— This week, lead organizers Dartmouth College and the University of Maryland-College Park, announce “Engaging the Public: Best Practices in Crowdsourcing across the Disciplines,” a workshop to gather by invitation over 60 leaders from the...
https://vine.co/v/eBFut17iE3b Tiltfactor folks are busy making new Metadata Games! Fun!...
The 2015 Tiltfactor team is bigger and bolder than ever. Dr. Mary Flanagan and her team are currently gathering data in a "Study-Palooza," our term for enthusiastic and dedicated data collection. This awesome team is focused on the Bioheritage Diversity Library, Metadata Games, Bystander Intervention,...
Mary Flanagan's Kickstarter campaign for the board game MONARCH is nearly wrapped up, and at 24 hours before close has well met it's goal with over 300 supporters. In a recent Dartmouth Now article, Flanagan described Monarch as entertaining, beautiful, and “strategic—but not so strategic that...
Mary Flanagan was recognized by the newly formed Higher Education Video Game Alliance (The Alliance, or HEVGA) in their first annual awards program last week. (Read the Alliance Press Release.) The Alliance was created by higher education leaders from across the country who share best practices, build partnerships...
UPDATE: Position has been filled. Thanks to all who applied! The Tiltfactor game design and research laboratory at Dartmouth College (https://tiltfactor.org) is seeking applications for a full-time postdoctoral research position in social psychology for the 2015-2016 academic year. Tiltfactor Lab at Dartmouth College designs, creates, and...
Tiltfactor and the University of Edinburgh, Library and University Collections are excited to announce the addition of over 3,300 images from the University of Edinburgh to Metadata Games. This collection, a miscellaneous “gallimaufry” (a confused jumble or medley) of digitized items from Special Collections, displays...
On December 11, 2014 at 12pm EST, the Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives (CCLA) will hold its second 1-hour webinar titled, "Scoping and Funding Crowdsourcing Projects." This webinar, hosted in conjunction with the OCLC, will explore how researchers, as well as libraries, museums and...
There's a great profile of our lab director Mary Flanagan out --Read the full story by Jennifer Wulff ’96, published in the November/December 2014 issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. And Dartmouth Now has some Tiltfactor news to share too! There's a lot going on in the lab this...