Game Accessibility Day Schedule
Games Accessibility Day @ Games for Health 2010
(Subject to Change as Event Nears)
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
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8:30 am to 9:00 am |
Coffee and Networking |
9:00 am to 9:45 am |
Opening Ceremonies Introduction of the Day, Mark Barlet Keynote Address: Chuck Bergen – Making a commercial game targeting at the disabled community, and how he sold the idea to the biggest game company on the planet. |
9:45 am to 10:00 am |
Break |
10:00 am to 10:25 am |
Presentation: Tobi Saulnier - Winter's Tale : A Case Study of Designing for Game Accessibility on the Nintendo DS |
10:25 am to 10:45 am |
Presentation: Katherine Mancuso - Best Practices for Accessible Communication Using a Virtual World |
10:45 am to 11:05 am |
Presentation: Tim Holt: Game Accessibility in Special Education. |
11:05 am to 11:20 am |
Break |
11:20 am to 11:40 am |
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11:40 am to 12:10 pm |
Presentation: Halimat Alabi - Making the Fantasy Real: Giving Good User Interface |
12:10 pm to 12:30 pm |
Presentation: Laurent Auneau – Virtual Kitchen: Using a 3D Game Engine to Help Make Kitchens Friendlier to the Visually Imparied |
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
1:30 pm to 1:50 pm |
“Hacker Hardware Challenge” the reveal and Q&A |
1:50 pm to 2:10 pm |
Presentation: Johnny Richardson - The Social Construction Model of Interactive Gaming for Disabled Users: Benefits and Developmental Evaluation |
2:10 pm to 2:30 pm |
Presentation: Eleanor Robinson - Game Accessibility and the Aging Community |
2:30 pm to 2:40 pm |
Break |
2:40 pm to 3:40 pm |
Group Activity: Break out into groups and solve the world’s problems How could we pass up the opportunity to flex the massive amount of talent assembled in one room. Take on a challenge and help develop a solution. |
3:40pm to 3:50 pm |
Break |
3:50 pm to 4:15 pm |
Presentation: Sri Kurniawan - Rock Vibe - Rock Band for People with No or Limited Vision (Troy Allman, Rupinder K. Dhillon, Molly A.E. Landau, Sri H. Kurniawan, University of California Santa Cruz) |
| 4:15 pm to 4:40 | Presentation: Ian Parberry - Designing a narrative-based audio only 3D game engine |
4:40 pm to 4:50 pm |
Break |
4:50 pm to 5:15 pm |
Presentation: Suzanne Robitaille and Mark Barlet - Reviews for All, A New way of looking at things for our community |
5:15 pm to 5:35 pm |
Presentation: Alise Brann (NCTI) - Unleashing the Power of Innovation for Assistive Technology |
5:35 pm to 5:45 pm |
Closing Ceremonies |
