Card games are more often associated with family-gatherings or leisurely afternoons than with realizing social change. However, one group of game designers is creating games with an aim to do just that. Tiltfactor Lab, a Dartmouth College research laboratory with Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor Mary Flanagan...
Tiltfactor founding director Mary Flanagan and Tiltfactor alum Gili Freedman (currently Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland) recently collaborated on an article entitled "The Effect of Embodying a Woman Scientist in Virtual Reality on Men's Gender Biases" for the...
NarraScope is just a cool cool event, and this year it's pay what you can and online. NarraScope 2020: Celebrating Narrative Games May 28 - June 4 2020. On Thursday May 28, we discovered that Matthew Farber is running "Terrifically Awkward: Games To Teach Social...
Grace is a sophomore at Dartmouth College doing game design, development, and research at Tiltfactor There’s a reason computer science majors are stereotyped as being socially awkward. It’s because we are. That’s why when I started working at Tiltfactor, the one part of the job I...
Our lab director, Mary Flanagan, is one of thirty fellows in the Higher Education Video Game Alliance. Read more about it in the Dartmouth news. ...
On the 14th of May 2016, Tiltfactor's director, Mary Flanagan, received an Honorary Doctorate in Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She was honored with an honorary degree with Ray Kurzweil, inventor, and Chris Gladwin, entrepreneur. The degree recognized, among other significant contributions, the innovative focus human...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Amy Olson | amy.d.olson@dartmouth.edu | 603-646-3274 Digital Media May Be Changing How You Think New Study Finds Users Focus on Concrete Details Rather than the Big Picture HANOVER, N.H. – May 9, 2016 – Tablet and laptop users beware. Using digital platforms such as...
March is a time of many talks! Tiltfactor director Mary Flanagan spoke at the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series at the University of California Berkeley. The audience represented those interested in art, dance, post colonial studies, gender studies, game design, and even peace...
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,...
Members of the Tiltfactor team attended the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco and presented research on games designed for our BIAS project! Geoff introduced our work by discussing the goals of our lab and the theories behind our BIAS research. We...