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Date: 12/09/2008
Location: Interact Lab - University of Sussex
Methods for evaluating experience within the video games industry are growing and changing at a rapid pace. The South East Gaming Symposium is an innovative workshop that brings together industry professionals and academics to understand the mutual challenges that they face within the field. ...[+] |
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Date: 29/08/2008
Location: Jurys Inn Hotel, Brighton
The Games industry has created a whole series of challenges for games developers and designers. Games narratives, structures and controls have got to a level of complexity that offers new ground for inventing and developing different methods of interacting with games. To be successful, in such a crowded and competitive industry, games developers must consider the context of experience. Unlike traditional software, where more traditional performance metrics can be applied, measuring experiential dimensions such as 'fun' and 'playability' becomes a daunting task. Games are a tremendously varied set of applications, defying a one-size-fits-all approach. Even a broad and relevant concept such as flow falls short of capturing all classes of game experience. 'Play' will go beyond simple usability issues exploring different dimensions of User Experience that make games enjoyable. ...[+] |
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Date: 23/05/2008
Location: Jurys Inn Hotel
Television is in transition from a broadcast medium to a broadband medium. As digital television migrates to new channels of distribution a whole new range of interactive services can be delivered to engage audiences. With the introduction of interactivity, Television is moving toward new forms of communication that bridge the different worlds of broadcasting and telecommunications. In this transition, passive audiences will become active users adapting themselves to the new lean forward experience of broadband TV. ...[+] |
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Date: 07/03/2008
Location: Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton
It is estimated that just one in five people with mobile phones that are able to connect to the web actually do. But the iPhone, however, is having a profound effect on the willingness of its users to go online. As mobiles phone screen sizes get larger and easier to navigation - will more and more user connect to the web with the mobile phone in search of positive experiences? Anytime; Anywhere will explore user experience aspects of delivering web based applications and services to the mobile phone platforms. Various speakers will focus on a particular issue ranging from usability, design, interaction design and future developments of services and devices in the mobile phone industry. ...[+] |
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Date: 30/11/2007
Location: Community Base, Brighton
Use8 - the Brighton based User Experience Society presents “Beyond The Screen”; an event that explores how people experience Interactive Outdoor Technologies.Speakers from leading digital companies will present their current research, technology and case studies on: how to engage users in an outdoor interactive campaign, the role that external environment plays in creating user experience, and relative marketing implications. ...[+] |
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