08:00-09:00

Breakfast

09:00-09:10

Tom Hollihan

Welcome

USC-Associate Dean Annenberg School for Communication

09:10-09:15

Ute Ritterfeld

Welcome

USC-Games group

09:15-09:45

Ben Sawyer

Serious Games and the Elephant 

Digitalmill Inc.

09:45-10:15

James Paul Gee

Game Design for Deep Learning

UoWisconsin

10:15-10:45

Ute Ritterfeld, Robby Ratan, Helen Wang & Cindy Shen

Serious Games and Seriously Fun Games: Can They Be One and the Same?

USC-Games group

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-11:30

Carole Beal

Empirical findings in learning

USC

11:30-11:50

Debra Lieberman

Response

UC Santa Barbara

11:50-12:00

Discussion

Led by Peter Vorderer

12:00-12:30

Valerie Shute, Matthew Ventura & Malcolm Bauer

Methodological challenges in learning

ETS

12:30-12:50

Gary Bente

Response

UofCologne

12:50-01:00

Discussion

Led by Michael Cody

01:00-02:00

Lunch

02:00-2:30

Art Graesser

Theoretical assumptions in learning

UoMemphis

02:30-02:50

Jennings Bryant

Response

UoAlabama

02:50-03:00

Discussion

Led by Peter Vorderer

03:00-03:20

Break

03:20-03:50

Mike Zyda

Application I

USC-Games Pipe

03:50-04:20

Lynn Miller & Kwan Min Lee

Conclusion on “Learning”

USC-Games group

04:20-04:50

John Sherry

Empirical findings in development

MichiganStateU

04:50-05:10

Patricia Greenfield & Kaveri Subrahmanyam

Response

UniversityCalifornia

LA/CaliforniaState

05:10-05:20

Discussion

Led by Lynn Miller

05:20-05:50

Skip Rizzo

Application II

USC ICT

07:00

Dinner downtown

08:00-09:00

Breakfast

Poster session set up

Demos

09:00-09:30

Marco Ennemoser

Methodological challenges in development

UoGiessen

09:30-09:50

James Watt

Response

Rensselaer Polytech

09:50-10:00

Discussion

Led by Kwan M. Lee

10:00-10:20

Break

10:20-10:50

Elly Konijn & Nije Bijvank

Theoretical assumptions in development

VU University Amsterdam

10:50-11:10

Frank Biocca

Response

MichiganStateU

11:10-11:20

Discussion

Led by Lynn Miller

11:20-11:40

Andrea Hollingshead & Ute Ritterfeld

Conclusion on “Development”

USC-Games group

11:40-11:50

Break

11:50-12:20

Yasmin Kafai

Empirical findings in change

UCaliforniaLA

12:20-12:40

Jeoren Jansz

Response

UoAmsterdam

12:40-12:50

Discussion

Led by Andrea Hollingshead

12:50-03:00

Lunch & dessert

Poster session

Demos

03:00-03:30

Mike Shapiro & Jorge Peña-Herborn

Methodological challenges in change

CornellU

03:30-03:50

Niklas Ravaja

Response

Helsinki School of Economics

03:50-04:00

Discussion

Led by Ute Ritterfeld

04:00-04:20

Break

04:20-04:50

Christoph Klimmt

Theoretical assumptions in change

UoMTHannover

04:50-05:10

Arvind Singhal

Response

OhioU

05:10-05:20

Discussion

Led by Andrea Hollingshead

05:20-05:40

Michael Cody & Peter Vorderer

Conclusion on “Change”

USC-Games group

06:00-06:30

Cocktails

USC University Club

06:30-07:30

                         Dinner

07:30- 08:00

Stacey Spiegel

Application III

Parallel Worlds Inc.

08:00

Ritterfeld

Farewell

USC-Games group