Workshop, February 26, 2009. Invitation.

The workshop about Virtual Worlds at Roskilde University is near: we will play, have fun, and do some serious work as well. So, welcome to the upcoming third workshop in the research project “Sense-making and innovation in Virtual Worlds.”

The date and location is:

Thursday, February 26. 2009, 10.00 to 16.30, room 43.3.29, house 43, Roskilde University
Map of the university: http://www.ruc.dk/ruc/omruc/ankomst/ruc-kort/

Registration due: Friday, February 20 to: sisse@ruc.dk, or
Phone +45 4674 3771 or +45 2092 6094

• 10.00: Coffee
• 10.15: Welcome and latest news. / Prof. Sisse Siggaard Jensen
• 10.45: Viral marketing, a PhD project. Presentation and discussion. / PhD student Dina Friis Jensen
• 11.30: Design, innovation, and emotional experience, a PhD project /PhD student Ates Gürsimsek
• 12.00: Lunch
• 13.00: Innovating methods, methodologies for new media reception studies, and innovating game play interfaces, aka the Nintendo Wii. Presentation and discussion. / Post. doc CarrieLynn Reinhard
• 14.00: Coffee
• 14.15: Superheros and -heroines.Testing the Superhero Training Room (or holodeck) at Research Island DK . The SL Superhero room is part of CarrieLynn Reinhard’s experiments with: movies, Fantastic Four or X-Men; Nintendo Wii, Marvel Ultimate Alliance; the multiuser online game, City of Heroes, and the Second Life Superhero Training Room. Introduction and test session. /Post. doc CarrieLynn Reinhard & SL Business manager Tommy Nilsson, Wonderful Denmark
• 15.45: Discussion of test results and recommendations.
• 16.30: Closing

See you all,
Sisse Siggaard Jensen