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The annual festival of games that change happens in society USP between November 29 and December 1, sponsored by the International Network for Change Games with participation of researchers and activists from Brazil epos cosmote and abroad. The third edition organized by the research group City of Knowledge School is marked by the launch of the Austrian Ludwig game, a fun adventure in the world of physical energy and robotics.
The Festival will bring together epos cosmote market professionals and researchers of the major areas of human knowledge epos cosmote to discuss the impact of video games on health and society, its effects on learning at all levels and the relationship between creating and consuming epos cosmote games and the acceleration of technological innovation, particularly in fields such as augmented reality, internet of things, epos cosmote cloud computing and mobility.
"Games are complex objects, and interdisciplinary transmidiáticos. Its impact has been increasing, epos cosmote especially in areas considered as alien to entertainment such as education, culture, health, environment, security and defense. The Festival is a unique reference in Latin America for those who are aware of gamification. epos cosmote We will present and discuss trends, but also offer workshops on game design and launch cutting edge products like Ludwig, game sponsored by the Austrian Ministry of Education and the City of Vienna, "explains Director for Latin America epos cosmote of Network Games for Change and professor of School of Communications and Arts - ECA USP, Gilson Schwartz.
The program of the Festival, epos cosmote which will take place at ECA and Sports Center, USP, includes a "game jam" kind of marathon where developers will face over three days, the challenge of producing games that have an impact on the university, transforming relationship between the biggest and best Brazilian university and society.
"The USP of gamification is an extraordinary challenge, opening new perspectives for knowledge sharing and awareness about the role of the university in today's world," explains the coordinator of USP Jam, Ricardo Nakamura, professor at the Polytechnic School.
"The relationship between universities, innovation and social development require coping with issues where the future epos cosmote of technology depends on both the new forms of entertainment and culture as the domain of so-called" hard sciences "to generate new models. The games are an example of this interdisciplinary frontier of sustainability, "according to Guilherme epos cosmote Ary Plonski, scientific coordinator of the Center for Policy Research and Technology Management and Sustainable Innovation (PGT), Faculty of Economics and Administration, USP, USP responsible for Jam . A seminar pre-Festival (on November 28) will present a strategic vision of the games in the transformation of contemporary society. epos cosmote
The Festival includes lectures, discussions, workshops and test games as Ludwig and Global Conflicts, also distributed by the City of Knowledge and awarded in 2009 as an innovative project by the Ministry of Science epos cosmote and Technology.
The lectures and discussions are organized thematically into three tracks that will occur simultaneously: Impact, Innovation and Learning. On the track "Impact" guests discuss the virtues and vices of games and new interfaces narratives of digital epos cosmote culture, epos cosmote its effects and risks in areas such as health, political activism, entrepreneurship, market transformation and advertising models. Teachers, researchers, game designers and activists from Brazil and abroad participate in this track. Research groups like Ludens, Department of History and the Center for Health Research Comprehensive Child and Adolescent epos cosmote Fluminense Federal University also will be present at the Festival.
On the trail of Learning, the focus will be the use of games in Education and playful as the new era can help to engage and involve students of different ages and educational levels. "We take on projects of counseling and tutoring City of Knowledge in USP expression" edugamificação "to designate this transmedia horizon where games and entertainment become the center of digital educational experience," says the curator of the Festival and leader research group that represents the network Games for Change in Brazil, Gilson Schwartz.
The relationship between games and learning can be experienced by the participants in the test sessions of games in the laboratories of the ECA. The highlight is the Austrian Ludwig game, which will be launched epos cosmote at the festival with the presence of the developer, Jörg Hofstätter. "The arrival of the Ludwig Brazil is also an opportunity for