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Episode 75 – Citizen Scientists

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On this special winter evening episode of GamesAtWork dot Biz, Sandy and Michael R. get together to talk about how Citizen Scientists are changing how data is collected, processed, and how Gaming technology is being leveraged in these crowdsourced scientific endeavors. We think about how citizen scientists are impacting weather forecasting, thanks to WeatherUnderground, Tsunami tracking with Seismic sensors, Extraterrestrial science with Seti@Home, and protein folding with Fold.It. We then focus on the overlap between games and the real world with the upcoming really cool game – ReRoll Game. This and a whole lot more on this week’s show! Drop … Continue reading →

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Episode 69 – Award Nominated Podcast

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We are at 75% this week, with Sandy, Phaedra, and Michael R. giving a few updates on the C.A.V.E. at Villanova which we have all found out now means Computer Aided Visual and Virtual Environment. When you get your C.A.V.E. at home will you be fully immersive with rubber bullets? If you are near Villanova, stop by and visit Dr. Klassner to the C.A.V.E. being built in the library! We also dig a bit deeper on Alternate Reality Games talking about Cisco’s global sales meeting games. Phaedra also tells us about the three letter acronym’s spy conference game, that was … Continue reading →

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Episode 68 – Hipster CEO

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This week’s show include two Michaels and one Phaedra, we miss you Sandy! We also will be taking a week off to spend time with our friends and families, playing games of course! Oh yeah, and it’s Thanksgiving in the United States, so we will also be thankful that we can spend time playing games at work! Thank you to listener Kirk for providing a great link to follow up from last week’s show about bitcoin mining within games. We also thank Apple’s App Store for providing us with another story on apps being pulled from the app store related … Continue reading →

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Episode 28 – Dating Flashmob

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Michael and Phaedra express their love of martial arts, and how they don’t mind deceiving themselves in the least, by gaining cardio exercise benefits while doing something inherently fun.  “Dirt runs faster than I do” says Phaedra, thinking that zombies chasing her would be a great motivator to run even faster!  Talk about living in the undead moment!   Phaedra and Michael talk about a wide variety of alternate reality games (ARGs), from the recently started Google Niantic Project, to the stolen Audi (from 2006 if you can believe that!) to the MIT Game Lab’s Smithsonian game.   Then, the … Continue reading →

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