Futura (2009 – Present)
With Alissa Antle , Allen Bevans, Karen Tanenbaum, Katie Seaborn , and Sijie Wang.
Futura is a multi-player educational game, on a multi-touch tabletop, designed to teach children basic principles of sustainable development. Futura was developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers including specialists in education, game development, and sustainable design. I was responsible for the game design portion of the system. An early prototype of Futura was displayed at the Sustainability Pavilion at the Surrey venue for the 2010 Winter Olympics. More information about the Olympic show can be found on the FCAT news site.
For more details about this project, visit the Futura Webpage
Three perspectives on behavior change for serious games, Joshua G. Tanenbaum, Alissa N. Antle, John Robinson CHI ’13 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013. [20% acceptance rate]
- Antle, A.N., Tanenbaum, J., Tanenbaum, K., Bevans, A., Wang, S. and Seaborn K. (2011). Balancing act: Enabling public engagement with sustainability issues through a multi-touch tabletop collaborative game. In Proceedings of INTERACT, Sept 5- 9, 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, in press. [27.6%. acceptance rate].
Antle, A.N., Bevans, A., Tanenbaum, J., Seaborn K. and Wang, S. (2011) Futura: Design for collaborative learning and game play on a multi-touch digital tabletop. In Proceedings of Conference on Tangibles and Embedded Interaction (TEI’11), ACM Press, Portugal.
- Tanenbaum, J., Antle, A., Seaborn, K., Tanenbaum, K., Bevans, A. & Wang, S.(2010). Futura: A Case Study in the Design of an Educational Multi-Touch Tabletop Game. Poster presented at the 6th annual Games + Learning + Society Conference (GLS 6.0). June 9 – 11, Madison, WC, USA.
- Tanenbaum, J., Antle, A., Seaborn, K., Tanenbaum, K., Bevans, A., & Wang, S.(2010). Futura: Designing Multi-Touch Tabletop Games for Sustainability. Poster presented at the GRAND Annual Conference. June 2 – 4, Ottawa, ON, Canada.