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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Debra Lieberman [mailto:debra.lieberman@ucsb.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 30, 2016 4:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> undisclosed-recipients:<br><b>Subject:</b> Invitation to a panel on digital games and mindfulness<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I invite you to a panel presentation sponsored by the Center for Digital Games Research at UC Santa Barbara.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Digital Games Designed to Improve Mindfulness and Social-Emotional Health</span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Friday, October 14, 2016, 3:00-4:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Social Science & Media Studies (SS&MS) Building, Room 1009<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>UC Santa Barbara<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>See the attached flyer for more information. </span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Panelists:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>• <b>Jonathan Schooler</b>, Director of UCSB's Center for Mindfulness & Human Potential<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>• <b>Debra Lieberman</b>, Director of UCSB's Center for Digital Games Research</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>• <b>Trip Hawkins</b>, Founder of game publisher Electronic Arts and other companies</span><span style='color:#0F243E'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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.<span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br><b>Jonathan Schooler</b><br><br>Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UC Santa Barbara; Director, Center for Mindfulness & Human Potential<br><br>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. <br><br><br><b>Debra Lieberman</b><br><br>Director</span><span style='color:#0F243E'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Center for Digital Games Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>UC Santa Barbara<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <br><br><br><b>Trip Hawkins</b><br><br>Professor of Practice, Technology Management, UC Santa Barbara Technology Management<span style='color:#0F243E'> </span>Program<span style='color:#0F243E'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Founder of Electronic Arts, 3DO Company, Digital Chocolate, and If You Can Company<br><br>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.<br> <br><br><br>----------------------<br><br><b>Directions to the panel location:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The meeting room is in the Social Sciences & Media Studies Building, Room 1009 (the building is at about E9 on this map </span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps/ucsbmap.html" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps/ucsbmap.html</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>). 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.</span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>------------------------</span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best regards,</span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Debra</span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>---------<br><b>Debra Lieberman, Ph.D., Director</b><br>Center for Digital Games Research<br>University of California, Santa Barbara<br><a href="http://www.cdgr.ucsb.edu/" target="_blank">www.cdgr.ucsb.edu</a><br><br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:debra.lieberman@ucsb.edu" target="_blank">debra.lieberman@ucsb.edu</a><br>Twitter: @DebLieberman<br>Twitter: @GamesResearch</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=235 height=42 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D0B9A4.C39F3370"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>