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Designing for Adaptability: Open, Incomplete, Alive?! Digital Media & Learning 2011 LCHC / UCSD.
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Transcript of Designing for Adaptability: Open, Incomplete, Alive?! Digital Media & Learning 2011 LCHC / UCSD.
Dramatis Personae
• Jay Lemke, UCSD / University of
Michigan
• Rachel Cody-Pfister, LCHC / UCSD
• Robert Lecusay, LCHC / UCSD
• Ivan Rosero, LCHC / UCSD
Adaptability
• What/who adapts to what/whom?
• Affordances are relational, within a social
ecology
• Not just the game/tech, but a larger system
• Adaptability defined and designed only across
wider, less predictable settings, users
• Adapt or die!
Why “Living”?
• People and things in changing
combinations
• Organized across multiple levels,
timescales
• Emergent, unpredictable behaviors
• Changing, developing, evolving, dying?
In the Fifth Dimension
• LCHC, UCSD, Mike Cole
• After-school and community centers
• Kids, undergraduates, researchers
• Playing and learning
Case 1: Extended Day Academy
• Urban charter school, extended day
program
• Computer lab, low-end tech
• Quest Atlantis (Sasha Barab, Indiana U)
• Kids younger than designer’s target age
• Designed for classrooms, adapting to
after-school setting
Research Themes
• Affect and Play – playing together while
playing the game
• Recombinant Mixing – coupling what
normally doesn’t mix
• Crossing Timescales – interactions
between short-term and long-term
processes
Panel Issues• Designing FOR: diverse settings, linking offline
& online activities; emergence: the BuildWorld
• Research IN: noisy, chaotic setting; rapidly
changing moods and interests; evolving goals
• Documentation OF: fieldnotes, multi-
perspective videos, audio, chat, documents
• Evaluation WITH: changing goals, outcomes,
criteria; theirs and ours, yours?