I was lucky enough to speak at Playful 09 alongside some truly awesome speakers – I’ve put the deck up on Slideshare, but because of a bug in the youtube-video-uploading-feature, the speaker notes got a bit messed up, with the notes attached to the wrong slides. Which isn’t that helpful. So I thought it might be helpful to bung the talk up on the blog with the notes with the correct slides.
The day itself was absolutely awesome, and it was a real honour to be a part of such a cracking event – more on that to follow. In the mean time, if my ramblings about game mechanics, play and behaviour change sound of vague interest, you can find the full talk here.
Hi Katy, great post and really good presentation. Unfortunately I missed Play so it might already have been mentioned but…
Jonah Lehrer, author of How we decide, wrote a great post yesterday on Arts Education. Within it he introduces the concept of ‘Flow.’
Play and Flow are natural bedfellows. Flow is defined as:
“First proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, flow is a condition of complete and effortless focus, characterized by total immersion in the task at hand. We don’t notice the clock, or think about what we’re eating for lunch – we’re just thinking about what we’re doing. (Not surprisingly, people are exceedingly happy while engaged in flow activities, be it composing a poem or constructing a Legos set.*)”
The link to his article is http://bit.ly/3EtGHc
Hope you find it interesting.
Nick
I also missed playful, so it’s great to see your presentation in it’s entirety.
I was part of the team that created the Letter writing robot, and thought you might like more info on it.
Playful and memorable experiences are a big part of what we do from gesture controlled chickens to Helpful furniture. Drop us a line or give us a bell if you would like any more info, and thanks again for posting the full set.
Cheers
Steve
Nick – thanks for the link, that’s absolutely fascinating, many thanks!
And Steve – great to hear from you! Am familiar with the other sidekick work, but didn’t realise Ico’s involvement, awesome stuff :)
Wow. Had a great session this morning with our Bea (8 going on 18). We were talking about the ethics of the Chicken Tikka we had last night.
(We try and only eat ethically sourced meat http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6295747.stm. Now maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think the local Balti House is going to give a flying bhaji about the torturous conditions battery hens lives and die in.)
Bea pipes up with “I bet KFC” is worse… then goes into shocking detail about battery hens. I had no idea she already knew so much. nor that she could handle knowing so well.
Bea totally loves animals, like most kids, But she still loves bangers and mash. And bacon pancakes and… like most of us.
We’re trying to get out the door to school, but she reeeallly wants to show me the online platform game she learnt about all this from.
Peta’s Super Chick Star
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/superchicksisters/index.asp
It’s already helping get results, with the help of Super Mario Brothers and Pamela Anderson.
It got us to thinking how cool it would be for her to talk at Playful next year. About gaming from a kids perspective. About stuff that matters, like what you’re going to bombard her head and heart with.
“I like it because it’s basically as good as Mario Brothers and because I don’t want chickens getting hurt. I’m learning stuff.”
She’s totally up for researching “the ethics of gaming from a kids perspective” and working on this over the next year and giving you an experience to remember.
Want to hear what she’s got to say?
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