[Air-L] Larp about technology?

[Casey Lynn Fiesler]

What a neat idea!

As far as things that might touch on similar ideas as LARPing, I think you’d be interested in the work of my collaborator Mike Skirpan, who created an immersive theater experience about data ethics as part of his dissertation, and is currently revamping the production in Pittsburgh. http://mwskirpan.com/

A couple of published papers about it:

Skirpan, Michael Warren, Jacqueline Cameron, and Tom Yeh. "More Than a Show: Using Personalized Immersive Theater to Educate and Engage the Public in Technology Ethics." In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 464. ACM, 2018.

Skirpan, Michael, Jacqueline Cameron, and Tom Yeh. "Quantified Self: An Interdisciplinary Immersive Theater Project Supporting a Collaborative Learning Environment for CS Ethics." In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 946-951. ACM, 2018.

So I think that Mike is an even better connection than me, but insofar as I’m doing some work around science fiction and teaching ethics, I’m interested to hear more about this project! The folks behind this article also have a textbook coming out: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext

Casey

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Casey Fiesler
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University of Colorado Boulder

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On Jun 27, 2019, at 6:14 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg <Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no<mailto:Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no>> wrote:

Hello everyone - I just spent the week at a Larp camp (live action roleplaying) with my kids and absolutely loved it. I’m thinking a Larp about a near future drenched in ethical dilemmas about technology use might be brilliant for research dissemination, teaching, and maybe research too. Conveniently enough, it turns out two of the Larp writers  involved with the camp I was at have recently been hired by my university’s freshly renovated  museum  to facilitate dramatic participatory research dissemination, and they’re keen on developing a larp with me.

Do any of you have experience using larping in research dissemination or teaching at university level? Or do you know examples of technology-rich larps? Or have any other suggestions? We’re at a very, very early stage here :)

Jill

Professor of Digital Culture
University of Bergen
PI of the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life

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