[Air-l] For any folks in the midwest interested in game design, gender and, technology research:

[Thom Kevin Gillespie]

Brenda Laurel, designer of the Rockett computer game series with Purple
Moon will speak twice at Indiana University in Bloomington this Sunday and
Monday. 

On Sunday, January 13th from 4:30-6 p.m. Brenda will talk in the
auditorium in the education building at 201 North Rose Ave. in
Bloomington. Her talk will be on Children and Story Space.

On Monday, January 14th from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Whittenberger Auditorium
in the Indiana Memorial Union she will speak on the topic of Gender and
Technology Research. 

Brenda Laurel is a designer, researcher and writer. Her work focuses on
interactive narrative, human-computer interaction, and cultural aspects of
technology. Her career in human-computer interaction spans over twenty
years. She holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. in theatre from the Ohio State
University. Brenda was one of the founding Members of the research staff
at Interval Corporation in Palo Alto, California, where she coordinated
research activities exploring gender and technology, and where she
co-produced and directed the Placeholder Virtual project. She was also one
of the founders and VP/Design of a spin-off company from Interval - Purple
Moon - formed to market products based on this research. Mattel acquired
Purple Moon in 1999. In 1990 she co-founded Telepresence Research,
Inc. to
develop virtual reality and remote presence technology and applications.
She has worked as a software designer, producer, and researcher for
companies including Atari, Activision, and Apple.

Brenda Laurel is the author of the Utopian Entrepreneur [MIT Press 2001]
and Computers as Theatre [Addison-Wesley 1991; 2nd edition 1993], Brenda
is also the editor of the Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
[Addison-Wesley 1990] and a collection of essays entitled Severed Heads.

Additional information can be found at
http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/index.html

Brenda's talks are part of the IDEAS project and presented by the MIME
program in Telecommunications and co-sponsored by the department of
Instructional Systems Technology, Betsy Gatewood in the Business School,
the School of Informatics and the Digital Media Arts Program in the
department of Fine Arts. Initial funding for the IDEAS speaker series came
from Ken Gros Lewis.

For information about Brenda's talks and her schedule at IU send mail to
thom at indiana.edu