Thu\, Mar 21\, 7pm \;
\nThe POWDER Mobile and Wireless Living Laboratory\, presen ted by Kobus Van der Merwe
\nWith more mobile devices than people in the world\, we certainly take mobile phones and the wireless ser vices and applications they enable for granted. However\, this increase in the number of mobile devices strains the capabilities of current mobile n etworks\, e.g.\, insufficient capacity for users wanting to stream high de finition video\, dropped or failed calls at venues with many users etc. Fu rther\, emerging uses of wireless networks\, like connected vehicles and t he Internet of Things\, require fundamentally different capabilities of th ese networks\, like high reliability\, low latency and the ability to scal e to billions of devices.
\nKobus Van der Merwe is the Jay Lepreau P rofessor in the School of Computing and Director of the Flux Research Grou p at the University of Utah. He joined the University of Utah in 2012 afte r fourteen years at AT&\;T Labs - Research. He does networking systems research in a broad range of areas including mobile and wireless networkin g\, network evolution\, network security and cloud computing. He is the Pr incipal Investigator and Director of the POWDER project\, one of the newly selected NSF wireless research platforms.
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Thu\, Apr
18\, 7pm
Toward a Science of Game Design\, prese nted by Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera
\nGame development is cos tly\, technically challenging\, and poorly understood. Increased demand fo r games as a form of entertainment has motivated research into technology to help ameliorate the burden involved in development. This technology unf ortunately has the potential to create more problems than it solves. In th is \;talk\, I will argue that this increased demand should motivate mo re research into human-centered game design\, involving both artifact and person. This research requires computationally modeling our human intellig ence\, as part of an agenda that seeks to codify the precise interplay bet ween a person's cognition (an inner environment)\, the game's controls (an interface)\, and a fictional universe (an outer environment)\; the interp lay is concerned with attaining design goals by adapting the inner environ ment to the outer environment. I will present examples of this agenda as e mbodied through my own work and identify key challenges that I think need to be addressed in service of establishing what I call a "science of game design.&rdquo\;
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Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera is an Assistant Pr
ofessor of the \;School of Computing \;and \;the \;Enterta
inment Arts and Engineering Program \;at the University of Utah\, wher
e he directs \;the \;Laboratory for Quantitative Experience Design
. His research focuses on the design of games\, systems where users direct
an unfolding \;experience by taking on ludic/dramatic roles. \;\nhttps://slcpl.libnet.info/event/1613496
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