[4eyes] FW: Invitation to a panel on digital games and mindfulness

[Matthew Turk]

FYI

 

From: Debra Lieberman [mailto:debra.lieberman at ucsb.edu] 
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 4:28 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Invitation to a panel on digital games and mindfulness

 

Dear colleagues,

 

I invite you to a panel presentation sponsored by the Center for Digital Games Research at UC Santa Barbara.

 

Digital Games Designed to Improve Mindfulness and Social-Emotional Health

 

Friday, October 14, 2016, 3:00-4:30 PM

 

Social Science & Media Studies (SS&MS) Building, Room 1009

UC Santa Barbara

 

See the attached flyer for more information. 

 

Panelists:

 

•           Jonathan Schooler, Director of UCSB's Center for Mindfulness & Human Potential

•           Debra Lieberman, Director of UCSB's Center for Digital Games Research

•           Trip Hawkins, Founder of game publisher Electronic Arts and other companies

 

There will be three 20-minute presentations.  Jonathan will provide an overview of mindfulness and social-emotional health; Debra will present several digital games in this field; and Trip will present IF, a social-emotional skills game he created.  Q&A will follow.

Jonathan Schooler

Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UC Santa Barbara; Director, Center for Mindfulness & Human Potential

Jonathan Schooler, Ph.D., Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara, conducts research about mindfulness, consciousness, cognitive psychology, and memory, with special interests in the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making.  He has authored more than 200 scientific publications and his research has been supported by more than a dozen government agencies and private foundations.  He directs the university's Center for Mindfulness & Human Potential, which creates and evaluates evidence-based training programs to help integrate mindfulness into schools and other institutions. 


Debra Lieberman

Director

Center for Digital Games Research

​UC Santa Barbara​

 

Debra Lieberman, Ph.D., is a media researcher at UC Santa Barbara, where she directs the university’s Center for Digital Games Research.  >From 2007 to 2013 at UC Santa Barbara she directed Health Games Research, a national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to advance the research, design, and effectiveness of health games.  Debra’s research focuses on processes of motivation, learning, and behavior change with digital media and games.  She works with health organizations, education agencies, and media and technology companies to improve user engagement and to help design and evaluate digital media and games for entertainment, learning, and health, for a variety of target populations and age groups. 


Trip Hawkins

Professor of Practice, Technology Management, UC Santa Barbara Technology Management Program

Founder of Electronic Arts, 3DO Company, Digital Chocolate, and If You Can Company

Now an advisor to many successful entrepreneurs and Professor of Practice, Technology Management, in UC Santa Barbara's Technology Management Program, Hawkins founded and led video game company Electronic Arts and played a key role in defining the personal computer industry as an early executive at Apple.  Hawkins introduced many successful strategies and practices to the computing and game industries and was the creative force behind EA Sports.  He also founded and led game publishers 3DO, Digital Chocolate, and If You Can Company, which recently made several award-winning games and exceeded 200 million mobile app downloads.  The first and only business executive named to the game industry Hall of Fame by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, Hawkins is also the only game industry person to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE.
 


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Directions to the panel location:

The meeting room is in the Social Sciences & Media Studies Building, Room 1009 (the building is at about E9 on this map  <http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps/ucsbmap.html> http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps/ucsbmap.html).  The room has an exterior door and you enter from the courtyard, not from inside the building.  Look at the first "S" in the name "Social Sciences and Media Studies" on the map, and the exterior door to Room 1009 is to the left of the "S" in "Social."  When you face the door, the Pollock Theater will be behind you.

 

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Best regards,

 

Debra

 

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Debra Lieberman, Ph.D., Director
Center for Digital Games Research
University of California, Santa Barbara
www.cdgr.ucsb.edu <http://www.cdgr.ucsb.edu/> 

E-mail:  debra.lieberman at ucsb.edu
Twitter: @DebLieberman
Twitter: @GamesResearch

 



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