Neurogaming & Health [
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11:00am EDT
Games and Game-based Simulations in Medical Professional Training
Speakers
Vice President Serious Games, BreakAway Games
Jenn McNamara is Vice President of Serious Games and Strategic Partnerships at BreakAway Games. She leads a team creating game-based solutions that meet customers’ goals throughout the defense, homeland security, medical, corporate training, and human capital management communities...
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Monday July 31, 2017 11:00am - 11:20am EDT
Room 105
11:00am EDT
Can Gaming Play Nicely with Pharma?
Speakers
CEO, Amblyotech Inc.
Joe’s background over the past 20 years covers the acquisition, development and commercialization of medical devices, diagnostic and pharmaceuticals. He has founded and created successful exit strategies for three startups. He has raised over $125 million in equity financing and...
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Associate Producer, Ubisoft
From a very young age, I've always been curious. I liked to deconstruct things to better understand them. That is still how I approach work today. Having worked in various fields such as Creative Writing, 3d animation, Game School manager, VFX, Architecture, lecturer and now Game...
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11:20am EDT
The Importance of Screwing Up: Improving Health Through Failure
Speakers
Instructional Designer, Kognito
Seth is a writer, problem-solver, and designer of interactive experiences. Through his work at Kognito, he discovered that communication skills are teachable, learnable, and can improve many aspects of life. Since then he's designed over 20 simulations in an attempt to make the world...
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Co-Founder & CEO, Kognito
Ron Goldman is an innovator, tech executive and social entrepreneur. Over the past decade, he has pioneered the use of gaming and simulation technology for learning and assessment experiences in health, behavioral health and education. Ron is the co-founder and CEO of Kognito, a health...
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Monday July 31, 2017 11:20am - 11:40am EDT
Room 105
1:45pm EDT
The Promise of Brain Training Games
Speakers
UCR Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-being
Aaron Seitz is an internationally recognized expert on the mechanisms of learning and applies knowledge of brain plasticity to create brain-training video games that are effective in improving performance in real-world tasks. A notable example is his vision training game ULTIMEYES...
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Monday July 31, 2017 1:45pm - 2:15pm EDT
Room 105
2:15pm EDT
Panel - Brain Training Games: Fact, Fiction, or Somewhere in Between?
Moderators
Executive Director, Eyewire
Amy Robinson Sterling is an expert in crowd sourcing. She is the Executive Director of EyeWire, a game to map the brain played by a quarter million people worldwide. Sterling is an international speaker and has advised The White House OSTP and US Congress. She is a leading catalyst...
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Speakers
UCR Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-being
Aaron Seitz is an internationally recognized expert on the mechanisms of learning and applies knowledge of brain plasticity to create brain-training video games that are effective in improving performance in real-world tasks. A notable example is his vision training game ULTIMEYES...
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Director of Game Systems Design, Lumosity
Lance Vikaros, Ed.D., has been designing, developing and teaching others how to build educational software since 1992, for groups like Scholastic, Lexia Learning, Intel, the MIT Media Lab and now Lumosity. Recently he completed an educational doctorate degree specialized in educational...
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Monday July 31, 2017 2:15pm - 3:00pm EDT
Room 105
5:15pm EDT
5:15pm EDT
11:00am EDT
Narrating Chronic Pain—Using Video Games to Tell Aspirational Stories
Speakers
Medical Anthropologist, US Department of Health and Human Services
Rhonda is a medical anthropologist and social scientist who combines anthropological methods, narrative, clinical neuroscience and gaming to better understand the experience and meaning of chronic pain and suffering in vulnerable populations. Rhonda received a Ph.D. in Cultural and...
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Tuesday August 1, 2017 11:00am - 11:20am EDT
Room 104
11:45am EDT
The Power, Cost and Limits of Adaptivity in Neurogaming
Speakers
Director of Game Systems Design, Lumosity
Lance Vikaros, Ed.D., has been designing, developing and teaching others how to build educational software since 1992, for groups like Scholastic, Lexia Learning, Intel, the MIT Media Lab and now Lumosity. Recently he completed an educational doctorate degree specialized in educational...
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Tuesday August 1, 2017 11:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Room 104
12:00pm EDT
An Active Learning Game for Better Sound Localization Using Augmented Reality (AR)
Speakers
Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
SUNGYOUNG KIM IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER, AND TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AT RIT. His research interests include enjoyable auditory environment based on a multichannel audio system, virtual reality audio, auditory training, cross-cultural...
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Tuesday August 1, 2017 12:00pm - 12:15pm EDT
Room 104
12:15pm EDT
From Proteins to Planets: The First Year of Project Discovery
Speakers
Senior Development Manager, CCP Games
After graduating from London Metropolitan University with a MA in Architecture of rapid change and scarce resources, Bergur went on a path to explore the possibility of architecture and urban planning in the digitally built world of World of Darkness. The aim was to build a familiar...
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CEO & co-founder, Massively Multiplayer Online Science
Attila feels very lucky to have combined his two passions with Massively Multiplayer Online Science: citizen science and games. He is based in the beautiful small village of Gryon, Switzerland, where he founded MMOS with Bernard Revaz. For almost two decades, he has worked in IT in...
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1:45pm EDT
Government Grants for Health & Science Games
Speakers
Program Director, National Institutes of Health
Dr. David Miller is a Program Director at the NIH’s National Cancer Institute where he manages a broad portfolio of biomedical software and computational modeling research grants in areas including data visualization, science games, interactive media, and crowdsourcing methodologies...
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Tuesday August 1, 2017 1:45pm - 2:00pm EDT
Room 104
2:00pm EDT
2:15pm EDT
Improving Scientific Discovery Games with Data
Speakers
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Seth Cooper is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. He earned his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Seth is interested in using video games to solve difficult real-world problems...
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Tuesday August 1, 2017 2:15pm - 2:30pm EDT
Room 104
2:30pm EDT
VR Hacking:
from Innovation to Preservation
Speakers
Creative Consultant / Professional Nerd, Isobar
As a creative technologist with a strong design background, Kevin leads day-to-day creative initiatives within the Isobar NYC office and the Isobar NowLab. Since age 11 he’s had his hand in print, motion/broadcast, digital, experiential and now VR/AR projects for brands such as...
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Tuesday August 1, 2017 2:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Room 104
4:00pm EDT
4:10pm EDT
How Uncertainty can be Used to Improve Learning
Speakers
UC Riverside
Russell Cohen Hoffing is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Riverside. Here he works at the Brain Game Center devoting his time towards making a brain training games to improve self-control.
Tuesday August 1, 2017 4:10pm - 4:20pm EDT
Room 104
4:20pm EDT
4:30pm EDT
The 5 Rules of Virtual Humans
Speakers
CTO, Kognito
Vince has always loved to build things -- from baubles to hardware and software. His passion for tinkering is the underpinning of his commitment to continuous innovation. At Kognito, Vince is applying that same desire to lead the company's technology strategy, bringing fresh ideas...
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Tuesday August 1, 2017 4:30pm - 4:40pm EDT
Room 104
4:40pm EDT
Fit Brains: A Summary of Eight Years in Brain Training
Speakers
Game Designer, Rosetta Stone (formerly)
Maurice Grela is a game developer who circulates between Toronto and Vancouver. His work experience includes game design, quality assurance testing, art direction, voice acting direction, technical art, research, and modding of existing games. He has explored a wide spectrum of game...
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Tuesday August 1, 2017 4:40pm - 4:50pm EDT
Room 104
4:50pm EDT
Exploring the Feasibility of Video Games for Cognitive Assessment
Speakers
University of Strathclyde
Ba (Hon) in Games Design and Production Management. MPhil student in Digital Health and Wellness. With academic and industry experience I aim to research the development of games into new markets and genres. The current interest is the development of application for people with...
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Tuesday August 1, 2017 4:50pm - 5:00pm EDT
Room 104