[games_access] Games for Health 2008 and Game Accessibility Workshop

[Thomas Westin]

Great Michelle and others,

I'll definitely consider going to Games for Health next year, sounds  
like a great place to reach out with our efforts

Kind regards
Thomas

On 13 maj 2008, at 14.43, d. michelle hinn wrote:

> Hi Barrie and everyone on the GA list!
>
> Yes, a few of us were at the Games for Health conference and are  
> submitting our slides online so that they can be linked to the video  
> that Ben generously recorded of our whole day's event. So now we  
> have a nice collection of videos that we'll be able to put on  
> YouTube or whatnot for free so we can point game devs, government  
> agencies, funders, etc to these resources to show a little bit of  
> what we do! How cool is that? :)
>
> The conference was great, although I sprained my ankle toward the  
> end (believe it or not it happen when I was walking barefoot in the  
> rain and NOT when I was wearing my infamous way too high heeled  
> shoes. Lol. I'm ok -- just have a splint -- no breaks. I think it's  
> a bit funny, actually, so if you feel like laughing...please do! I  
> am! :D
>
> So we had an all day workshop where we had talks by old and new  
> friends! Lots of very interesting and diverse talks and it was well  
> received. I'm writing an article for AbleGamers right now that can  
> be co-linked from our blog and anyone else's. I thought that it  
> would be good to get an official report up in as many venues as  
> possible and with AbleGamers we now can reach so many more consumers  
> than we ever have as a SIG. So I'd like to thank Mark and Stephanie  
> from there for helping us grow this side of things that we haven't  
> been able to get to because we're more industry focused most of the  
> time. AbleGamers is not a "SIG" site but both Mark and Steph are  
> memberss of the SIG. They have stepped up to the plate to help at  
> GDC when I was not feeling well and then Mark delivered an excellent  
> talk as well. So I just want to plug them again because as SIG  
> members they have done a lot and the community that they run is top  
> notch. I encourage everyone who is not already a member of  
> AbleGamers (ablegamers.com) to check it out if you haven't had the  
> chance to yet and to join the community.
>
> Ah back to Games for Health -- In addition to Mark and myself from  
> the SIG, we had Lynn talking about accessible gaming in the  
> classroom, Eleanor from 7-128 talking about the ALERT project,  
> Giannis talking about "Game Over," Kevin Bierre talking on research  
> in the field of GA and how to include accessibility into the  
> university gaming curriculum, Mark talking about AbleGamers and the  
> gamers with disabilities community, Eric Walker talking about  
> Strange Attractors 1 and 2, and Robert demo-ing the QuadController  
> and his documentary. We also heard from some folks at AT for kids  
> and Ben Heck (the infamous hardware hacker who had some cool stuff  
> (and he and Ben Sawyer cooked up a great surprise for the next day  
> -- one handed guitar hero (check out ablegamers for more on this --  
> Mark's already posted about this). And, of course, we had Ben Sawyer  
> talking about how we fit into the games for health field. I hope  
> that I haven't forgotten anyone! There were so many great talks and  
> a LOT of diversity of attitudes (in a healthy way) about game  
> accessibility. This will be in my article and I'll post the link  
> when it's up on AbleGamers!
>
> Anyway, I think we had a great first showing for a full day workshop  
> and I know that we are all brimming with ideas about how to make our  
> participation bigger and better next year! :)
>
> Michelle
>
>> How did the Games for Health conference go - I remember we were  
>> speaking at the same times.
>>
>> Robert, you'll be pleased to know that a short video clip of yours  
>> opened proceedings at the Game Accessibility Workshop in Sussex,  
>> Essex - which was very well received all round. I'll post a bit  
>> more later. Meanwhile - how did your talk go?
>>
>>
>> Barrie
>> www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>>
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