Author: Mary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Institute of Museum and Library Services-Funded Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives to Host Inaugural 2014 Open Webinar Crowdsourcing 101: Fundamentals and Case Studies” Webinar on October 29, 12pm EDT. HANOVER, N.H. – October 20, 2014 –The Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives (CCLA) announced...

20 October, 2014

For Immediate Release: September 30, 2014 The National Science Foundation’s Research on Education and Learning (REAL) program has awarded Dr. Mary Flanagan, Tiltfactor Laboratory at Dartmouth, and collaborator, Dr. Melanie Green, University at Buffalo, a three-year, $1,134,208 grant to develop and research an “interactive narrative” technology for...

01 October, 2014

This past weekend Tiltfactor brought a bunch of our upcoming tabletop games to the Boston Festival of Indie Games at MIT! Among the 50 tables, the lab was represented at five! We brought Bill of Health and Gut Check, two strategy games about the...

18 September, 2014

We are excited to announce Tiltfactor’s newest partnership with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), which houses the largest and most accessible collection of printed materials from the United States, the West Indies, and parts of Canada pre-1876. [caption id="attachment_8594" align="aligncenter" width="450"] (political cartoon in 1836,...

18 August, 2014

Tiltfactor Lab is pioneering an innovative method for data preservation. Metadata Games aims to be a useful and fun means of preserving archival materials as libraries and museums move into an increasingly digitalized world. Metadata Games aims to be a means to draw in larger communities to help libraries,...

11 August, 2014

Our lab director Mary Flanagan and her long time collaborator Helen Nissenbaum are proud to announce the release of Values at Play in Digital Games, just published by MIT Press! The book starts from the idea that human principles, or values, are already embedded in...

25 July, 2014

We have great news for Tiltfactor fans in the UK! Our games Buffalo and Awkward Moment are finally shipping to the UK with the online retail partner Uncommon Goods! The games are incredibly popular! Thanks, fans, for making it all happen!! Now, along with our...

16 July, 2014

Tiltfactor researcher Geoff recently represented the lab (and the Metadata Games project in particular) at the 2014 Human Computation Roadmap Summit, held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, from June 18-20. This 2.5 day workshop, which brought together a...

07 July, 2014

Earlier this month Tiltfactor game designer Max Seidman represented the lab at the annual Games for Health conference in Boston. The conference is exactly what it sounds like: a place where game experts, health professionals, and health stakeholders come together to share innovations in...

30 June, 2014
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