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 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...
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,...
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...
We are excited to launch Play Southend, an online game to imagine the future of Southend-On-Sea in the UK, tomorrow at the Village Green arts and music festival! Play Southend draws on open participatory techniques to develop a collective vision of the town created by...
For Immediate Release Contact: contact@tiltfactor.org June 12, 2013 (Hanover, NH) – Tiltfactor Laboratory is thrilled to bring the popular game brainstorming tool, Grow-A-Game, to iPhone and iPad! Developed as part of the Values at Play project, the Grow-A-Game cards are widely used in both K-12 and University...