July 17, 2008

Visit from Greg Wadley

Greg Wadley from the University of Melbourne, Australia, has joined us as a visiting researcher from July to October 2008. Greg teaches in the Information Systems degree at Melbourne and has spent the past few years researching for his PhD on how people use different communication media in virtual worlds. At PARC Greg will conduct research into group collaboration around complex 3d objects in Second Life. For more details about Greg and his work please see his
staff page or email him on gwadley at parc dot com.

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February 08, 2008

PlayOn welcomes Don Wen

As I am sure many of our readers noticed, PlayOn has been lying dormant for a while... but fear not, we plan to be much more active this year. Some of our new energy comes from the addition of Don Wen to our group. Don, originally from the Human Factors Laboratory at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan, is visiting PARC for a year. His recent research has been focused on the design factors influencing a player's experience in MMOs, and the impact of these factors on things like fun and addiction. He will continue exploring these topics and others with our group.

Welcome Don!

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January 20, 2006

Raph Koster at PARC

PlayOn is happy to host Raph Koster of Sony Online Entertainment on Thursday, January 26, 2006 at PARC. Raph will give a PARC Forum titled, "The Medium That Ate The World," in which he will unravel the mysteries of games, cyberspace and the human condition (all in a little under an hour).

The PARC Forum is open to the public so if you're in the SF Bay Area please drop by!

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