research

We've just completed data collection on our VR study! Stay tuned for more information as we submit our results for publication...

11 July, 2019

Our new article in Psychology of Women Quarterly describes a set of studies that examined the influence of gender on how individuals make emotional attributions. Specifically, we had participants read a narrative about a female character dealing with negative emotions such as anxiety or doubt...

27 February, 2018

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...

09 May, 2016

Everyone, we are excited to announce that Dr. Gili Freedman will be joining our Tiltfactor team. Gili is a social psychologist who is interested in how people interact with each other and how we can make those interactions better. She received her B.A. in Psychology from...

16 February, 2016

New research by Tiltfactor published in Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace illustrates how games can have a positive impact in our society. Using a new approach in game design— ‘embedded game design’—former Tiltfactor postdoc Geoff Kaufman, now an assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute...

26 October, 2015

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

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

For Immediate Release January 22, 2014 Hanover, NH -- A photograph or a piece of film might stay in a library storage box for one hundred years and be seen by very few visitors. What if that image or that film could be digitized and posted online,...

22 January, 2014

Come see Geoff and Max talk about the Metadata Games project this Friday at DPLAfest in Boston to get a first-hand look at the project's newest games! DPLAfest 2013 is a two-day series of DPLA-related workshops, discussions, and other hands-on activities that are free and open...

22 October, 2013

With a bevy of new additions joining veteran postdoc Geoff and returning research assistants Joe and Sara - including a brand new postdoctoral researcher in psychology Jordan Carpenter*, and an army of new RAs - the intrepid Tiltfactor research team is preparing to run an...

17 September, 2013