[games_access] Game Accessibility Conference
Robert Florio
arthit73 at cablespeed.com
Thu May 24 12:31:51 EDT 2007
That is exciting Ben. Thank you for involving us and letting us know. Does
this mean there will not be one for 2007? Or did you already have it?
I'd be happy to participate again that was a lot of fun and a great
experience. Of course helping to organize a great event as well with my
friends here. Finally a big event near me. :-)
I can then just wanted to let you know things that I did last time and could
have prepared a much better speech even though I got a really strong
reaction from telling my story and telling a lot about accessibility,
getting out of the hospital that day and giving the speech was a good and
exhausting thing. Thank you for that experience it was great for me. This
time it will be better.
If you find it suitable a place or location I could or you can use a viewing
of my documentary that would be really good to get the word not. Once I get
it completed I need places to view it that would be good for that also.
There is a trailer on my homepage.
I'm pushing this trailer and documentary a lot because it's got huge
potential to carry our goals in a very emotional and connected to a very
specific situation involving all of us in a story format intriguing. If
anything is going to get developers and interested people in this topic and
support it can be that.
Thank you again and I look forward to talking more about this event.
Robert
www.RobertFlorio.com
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From: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Ben Sawyer
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:02 AM
To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [games_access] Game Accessibility Conference
Baltimore for at least 2008 then we may move around a bit - it's yet
to be determined.
We will not be in the medical school we're going to the convention
center for the main part but we are also looking at using some of the
facilities at the medical school for pre-conference items like a day
on accessibility and a day on research processes/agenda development.
I think a combined effort with our group, IGDA, and others co-located
so we can absorb costs, etc. would be best.
What we envisioned was a day long event prior to our core-two days on
health. Then as part of our core-Games for Health event we would
also do at least one session on accessibility for all attendees and
also have an accessibility section in our demo area including posters
and accessible demos.
What I'd like to do for a day long event is 1-2 tracks divided
between research oriented work, commercial/independent case studies,
and developer sessions (i.e. how-to).
My goal would be 100 attendees minimum.
What I was thinking was that we'd price it aggressively with a
portion of the funds from each ticket earmarked to the IGDA to
support funds for the SIG that would cover things like travel, GDC
tickets, etc. All we'd want from the SIG is that you'd design the
program with input from us and that you'd help promote it, and that
the SIG members would introduce speakers, keep time, etc. We would
handle all the logistics and general promotion. We also need to work
more aggressively within the entire event (this and Games for Health)
to improve our own accessibility issues so we'd need some help with
that as well.
- Ben
On May 24, 2007, at 10:22 AM, d. michelle hinn wrote:
> Hey, we can always use more and bigger opportunities! And, yes,
> perhaps a combined effort the first time out might ease everyone's
> minds a bit. The IGDA can then help us support that combined
> conference to the mainstream.
>
> Where's Games for Health 2008 located?
>
> Michelle
>
>> I think that's true but we can also use a standalone event with
>> our branding and IGDA/DIGRA to attract more mainstream developers
>> as well. We also can spend a lot more time promoting it as well.
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>> On May 23, 2007, at 8:47 PM, d. michelle hinn wrote:
>>
>>> I think that's a great opportunity to do as well -- I think we'd
>>> hit two different communities (Games for Health doesn't always
>>> cross over to the mainstream game dev community and vice versa)
>>> and that would give us a chance to get the folks doing stuff in
>>> health together and the folks doing stuff with the mainstream
>>> together.
>>>
>>> Michelle
>>>
>>>> We would like to support a one day conference as part of Games
>>>> for Health in May 2008 and I think a portion of our audience
>>>> would definitely respond to it.
>>>>
>>>> - Ben
>>>>
>>>> On May 23, 2007, at 5:59 PM, Reid Kimball wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "I'm kind of concerned whether we will be able to attract an
>>>>> audience
>>>>> for it" I think the first GDC had 7 attendees. We shouldn't put
>>>>> unrealistic pressure on ourselves with our first conference to
>>>>> bring
>>>>> in huge numbers or big names. The other questions you ask are
>>>>> right.
>>>>> If it's a conference, I'd want to see some sessions geared
>>>>> towards the
>>>>> academic/research crowd talking about ways to improve
>>>>> accessibility
>>>>> and others geared to developers talking about the practical
>>>>> implementations that work now.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/23/07, Eelke Folmer <eelke.folmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The idea of a conference focusing on game accessibility is
>>>>>> great but I'm
>>>>>> kind of concerned whether we will be able to attract an
>>>>>> audience for it.
>>>>>> What is the goal? 'spreading the word' e.g. convincing game
>>>>>> developers of
>>>>>> the importance of making games accessible? or or do we target
>>>>>> our fellow
>>>>>> researchers and discuss & explore new ways of making games
>>>>>> more accessible
>>>>>> and putting accessibility on the roadmap of developers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it is important to distinguish between these goals.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers Eelke
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On May 20, 2007, at 12:01 PM, d. michelle hinn wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I've mentioned this before but we should probably start
>>>>>> discussing it for
>>>>>> real. The IGDA would like to support our efforts in creating a
>>>>>> one-day
>>>>>> conference on Game Accessibility. Now this could be something
>>>>>> attached to
>>>>>> another conference (like GDC) or on it's own as a "summit" at
>>>>>> a time where
>>>>>> we aren't so frazzled from GDC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is one of the things I'll be bringing up at the online
>>>>>> meetings this
>>>>>> week so I'd appreciate ideas for location, dates, how wide we
>>>>>> cast the net
>>>>>> (ie, do we personally court a person from every major game
>>>>>> company we can to
>>>>>> attend), do we want it to be small the first year and then
>>>>>> cast the net
>>>>>> wider the next year?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What are your thoughts? Basically the IGDA now has a group
>>>>>> that does
>>>>>> conference/summit set ups for us so we tell them what we want
>>>>>> and they deal
>>>>>> with the registration, hotel block reservations, venue, some
>>>>>> advertising,
>>>>>> etc. So that's what make it's a very cool opportunity!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michelle
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>>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> -----------
>>>>>> Eelke Folmer
>>>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>>>> Department of Computer Science & Engineering/171
>>>>>> University of Nevada Reno, Nevada 89557
>>>>>> Game Quality
>>>>>> usability|accessibility.eelke.com
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