Erik Harpstead

Come be part of our study! @FrankElavsky and I are looking for live stream viewers and gamers who identify as blind or visually impaired to help create accessible live streaming interfaces. If you’d like to take part, please fill out this survey tinyurl.com/accessiblestre…

Exciting news for #CHIPLAY2023! 🎉 We're innovating the Connections Track by introducing "Amuse-bouche" sessions, happening online in the weeks before the conference. Dive into the details here: chiplay.acm.org/2023/program/c… @sigchi

Come be part of our co-design study! We’re looking for game developers, web designers, researchers, viewers, and streamers who are interested in Twitch. If you’d like to take part, please fill out this survey  tinyurl.com/co-designstudy

Attention #chiplay2023 full paper authors. Reviews and decisions for first round papers are now available in PCS. They will be emailed out to contact authors in the next 24 hours, but go to PCS if you are tired of waiting. :) @acmchiplay @guo_freeman @scottbateman

It’s official! We received an @nsf “research infrastructure incubator” grant to plan technical and social infrastructure for #learningEngineering with educational video games at scale. Studios, distributors and researchers for #openscience - let’s go! @magiseif @eharpstead @wcer

The #chiplay2023 🎮 CfPs for Works in Progress, Interactivity, Student Game Design Competition, Perspectives on Play, Doctoral Consortium, and Connections are now online! ✨ 👉 chiplay.acm.org/2023/ ❗️Deadline: June 22, 2023 #CHIPLAY #sigchi @sigchi

BIG NEWS! As of 9am this morning, I'm the Director of CMU's brand-new Center for Transformational Play. We build community, make games, do research, and connect our work to the world. Looking forward to doing cool things with YOU. More here: cs.cmu.edu/news/2022/ctp-…

Do I know anyone at Square Enix that can get me a copy of forspoken.square-enix-games.com/en-us/ near debut? Working with some community members who want to give a demo a chance.

Do you have a paper reporting on work in progress - #WIP - related to #play? Submit it to #chiplay2022 by the 20th of July! Details on the track here: buff.ly/37meGG2 Looking forward to your submissions! @sigchi #chiplay2022 #CHIPLAY #sigchi

The PCS is open now for all EA Track submissions! We are looking forward to your contributions to #WIP, #PoP, #DC, #Interactivity, #SGDC, and more! PCS link: buff.ly/2YJ2es7 @sigchi #chiplay2022 #CHIPLAY #sigchi

Starting at 1pm EDT today, at twitch.tv/theohlab, we are streaming our Twitch Teach-Out! Come learn what we've been doing. :) First session features talk of a data collection tool we're building. Full schedule and descriptions available here: bit.ly/3vXy0Dw

ICYMI, last night was the final project showcase of 05-418/05-818 Design of Educational Games w/ @eharpstead. We had a great time playing their 9 tabletop, digital & card #educationalgames. More photos on Instagram: instagram.com/p/CdOGm26rVGX/… #cmuhcii #CarnegieMellon #GameDesign

@EdTechMuser I try to teach my students to treat the learning and experience goals as co-equal rather than deferring to learning.

@EdTechMuser Another piece of it is that I always disliked how the traditional punchline to the chocolate covered broccoli joke, which is to make broccoli with something that enhances it like garlic, metaphorically advocates for "don't make a game make something else"

With the return to an in person Final Project Showcase in my Design of Educational Games course I can revive the tradition of making chocolate covered broccoli for my students. It's better than you think.

@EdTechMuser Not shown is the experimentation with 7 different chocolates I did back in 2019 to find that one that worked. There are absolutely wrong answers to this question.

@EdTechMuser I try to teach them to question the shallow metaphor and think that if you approach it as an actual craft and get to know the properties of your materials broccoli and chocolate or learning design and games then you can make something that actually works.

@dingstweets @joe_cutting Of course this comes out in my last week of teaching a course on educational game design! Looking forward to digging in more and making it a prominent feature in the future. The potential explanation for intrinsic integration will be particularly helpful.

So there you go: A new theory. I'm really thankful for the great collaboration with led author @joe_cutting, excited it's out after 3 years in the making – and curious to hear what you think!

🚨🕹️👩‍🏫Game-based learning colleagues: Excited about a new major theory paper by @joe_cutting & me – how attention shapes learning in games, why current theories don't capture that, and how it explains intrinsic integration. Buckle in! 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/07…

We are extending the deadline to apply for our Undergraduate Summer Research Program in observance of the MLK Day holiday today. Please make sure to submit your application by tomorrow morning: Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 7am EST. #UndergraduateResearch