On Saturday the Tiltfactor team took Smorball to the Boston Festival of Indie Games. Our computers were constantly filled, as players loved the game and fiercely competed to top each others' high scores! Then, at the end of the day we were surprised and thrilled that...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Amy D. Olson | Amy.D.Olson@dartmouth.edu | 603-646-3274 Dartmouth’s Tiltfactor Launches Games to Improve Access to Biodiversity Heritage Library Content Smorball and Beanstalk Allow Players to Transcribe Texts through Play HANOVER, N.H. – June 9, 2015 – Today, Dartmouth College's Tiltfactor, an interdisciplinary studio that...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HANOVER, N.H. - March 2, 2015 - Dartmouth College’s Tiltfactor, an interdisciplinary innovation studio, is excited to announce new work with collections from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Amy D. Olson | Amy.D.Olson@dartmouth.edu | 603-646-3274 HANOVER, N.H. – June 18, 2014 – Dartmouth College's Tiltfactor, an interdisciplinary innovation studio dedicated to designing and studying games for social impact, has announced a new collaboration with the British Library on three new...
This past week marked the launch of our brand new game in the Metadata Games project: Stupid Robot. In this quick and easy arcade game, players score points by teaching the adorable robot words about the image they are presented with. Players strive to teach...