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TALKS & PUBLICATIONS
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PLAYMAKER SCHOOL
A school based on Play, Making, and Discovery | |
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NEW SCHOOL DESIGN AND LAUNCH
Funded by BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
Launched in fall 2012, Los Angeles, Ca.
The PlayMaker school was developed over two years of research and curriculum development.
Traditional subjects, grade levels, and classroom style spaces have been transformed into hands-on and play-oriented experiences.
PlayMaker School Site
Role: Founder/Co-Director
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GameDesk
Educational Game Research & Development Institute | |
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GAME STUDIO/RESEARCH/OUTREACH
Founded 2009
The PlayMaker nLos Angeles-based interactive curriculum creator and digital publisher
is transforming games and traditional curriculum into a
digitally-charged ecosystem for learning. Company develops games, apps,
and hands-on play curriculum for serious academic topics and conducts
research on their effectiveness in the classroom.
GameDesk Site
Role: CEO
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DOJO
3D EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT GAME
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EMOTION REGULATION
Developed
for MAC FOUNDATION
2011
Game
focuses on youth that have a hard time controlling their fear,
frustration, and anger. Game works with IOM biofeedback controller that
monitors pulse and skin conductance. Player learns calming techniques
and must use them to remain calm in order to overcome various mini-game
challenges.
Dojo Project Page
Role:
Game Exec. Producer/Art Director
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THERMBOT
K-12 SCIENCE GAME
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THERMODYNAMIC GAME SERIES
Developed
for MOTOROLA FOUNDATION
2010
The Thermbot Project has curriculum, simulation, gameplay, and game-programming activities designed to give learners a deep conceptual understanding of the physics of thermal energy at the molecular level, including conduction, convection, and radiation.
Thermbot Project Page
Role:
Game Exec. Producer/Art Director
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AERO
3D BIRD AERODYNAMICS GAME
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FLIGHT DYNAMICS
Developed
for IRIDESCENT AND ONR
2011
Player controls an albatross in flight and learns how various aerodynamic principles are applied to achieve flight. The project was developed at GameDesk. You can download the current prototype on iTunes.
Aero Project Page
Role:
Game Exec. Producer/Art Director
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ASSEMBLY
FORCE
3D EDUCATIONAL GAME
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AIRPLANE
ASSEMBLY GAME
Developed
for LOCKHEED MARTIN
2007
Using the Nintendo Wii-mote controller, the game teaches employees basic
airplane engine assembly. Game focuses on quick memorization and
repetition of procedures and skills. Evaluation engine was built to give
real-time performance feedback to the trainee.
Role:
Game Producer/Designer
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GROUND
TRUTH
3D EDUCATIONAL GAME
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DISASTER
CONTROL SIMULATION GAME
Developed
for SANDIA NATIONAL LABS
2008
A city-based simulation that allows for the allocation of
hazmat, police, fire, and medical teams to minimize casualties and divert traffic
from a massive toxic cloud spill.
Used currently for disaster relief training at
Sandia Labs, and New York City Center for Disaster Control.
Role: Research
Director/Producer/Designer
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FIRESCOPE
3D EDUCATIONAL GAME
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FIREFIGHTER
COMMAND TRAINING GAME
Developed
for DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY
2007
A game that trains incident commanders to extinguish and evacuate a major
fire disaster zone in downtown Los Angeles. Player controls fire and
rescue in an attempt to prevent structural collapse and
evacuate as many survivors as possible.
Role: Research
Director/Producer/Designer
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FISH
QUEST
3D EDUCATIONAL GAME
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MARINE
BIOLOGY GAME
Developed
for NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
2006
The game focuses on aspects of oceanography, fish anatomy, and ecological awareness. The player explores the ocean, netting different rare species of fish and dissecting them in a marine base lab.
Game promotes MRI scanning techniques for fish anatomy due to ecological issues associated with live dissection.
Role:
Executive Producer
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IMMUNE
ATTACK
3D EDUCATIONAL GAME
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AP
BIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY GAME
Developed
for NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
2006
Educational game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to
high school and entry-level college students. Navigate a
nanobot through blood vessels and connective tissue in an
attempt to retrain a patient's non-functional immune
cells. Students learn about the biological processes that
enable white blood cells to detect and fight infections.
Role: Co-Producer/Designer
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MONTAGE
3D EDUCATIONAL GAME
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RUSSIAN HISTORY GAME
Developed
for NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
2007
The player explores a Russian World Exposition
that serves as a microcosm of the larger issues
in 19th century Russia. The game has three exploration
tracks; political, technological, or artistic. Each track features notable historical figures, objects, environments, and historical
events. Natural Russian language and gestures are also introduced within the gameplay.
The project was the result of a collaboration of game developers, historians,
and Russian linguists.
Role:
Game Producer/Designer
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3D
TOUCHSCREEN KIOSK
MULTIMEDIA TOUCHSCREEN IMMERSION
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3D touch-screen kiosk that displays information and media. User rotates through a series of 3D cubes to learn about emerging technologies. The kiosk also allows for full 3D
manipulation of 360 degree panoramic
media.
Role:
Designer/Programmer
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PROJECT
LIGHT
HIV/STD
AWARENESS INTERVENTION GAME
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Developed for NATIONAL
INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
A 6 hour CD-ROM game educating African American and Latino
youth about STD prevention, harmful social triggers, and using socially assertive behaviors in sexually compromising situations.
Utilized in classes throughout the Los Angeles
Unified School District.
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Game Co-Director
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MediaBase
Role:
Co-Inventor (Patent 2004), Designer, Developer
Academic application that allows students to create full multimedia
arguments using pictures, sounds, movies, and text which can be
published into a fully searchable database.
Currently the application is implimented in classrooms at the
University of Southern California and Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Money Sim
Role:
Co-Inventor (Patent 2004), Project Director, Designer
An educational game
that allows users to play out different
life-based and financially-based scenarios. The game facilitates an
understanding of how different life changes and financial products can potentially help
or hurt their financial futures.
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Chojo:
Immersive
mobile platform that allows people to interact with both 2D and 3D
immersive games and environments. The
platform is a server based real-time massive multiplayer system used
for
social gaming, emergence, and competition.
The current game allows students on USC
campus to plant virtual plants and watch them grow,
mutate, and cross-pollinate over time.
Role:
Research Investigator
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Remote MediaImmersion:
Role: Director/Producer/Editor
An 8 minute Hi-definition film transmitted over Internet2, which utilizes
revolutionary 10.2 audio technology, sending the viewer on a highly detailed, sound-rich, theme ride
experience.
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