The Conferences Issue: Getting the Word Out April was the month of conferences for the Careers in Play team.  We had two papers in a symposium we organized for the…

Visualizing the Fictional Community An important part of the Disaster Response narrative is visualizing the community as the disaster unfolds over it and as the players respond to the incidents…

Developing a Textual Ecology for Disaster Response The Disaster Response Playable Case Study (PCS), like its Cybersecurity counterpart, unfolds over several weeks following a phase structure shown in Figure 1.…

Happy New Year! Goodbye 2020, Welcome 2021! Positive and exciting new developments are on the horizon. The Cybersecurity Team is moving forward with refining the technology as we write. The Disaster…

Progress with Both Narratives December saw our project working with both of the narrative versions originally proposed.  The first narrative for Cybersecurity had run a pilot in a fall course…

Multi-Institutional Weekly Reading Group Every Wednesday evening, students and professors from Indiana University and the University of Maryland meet virtually to take part in a reading group centered on research…

Cybersecurity: Phase 3 Incorporating Attribution In the Cybersecurity PCS module, the design team is currently considering how to provide clues to each member of the team. Keeping in mind the…

Future of Work: Collaboration & Coordination With fall rolling in and everyone preparing for the start of the more-or-less virtual semester, the team began to conceptualize from a theoretical and…

Disaster Response Narrative Planning In the summer the team went back to the design board this time for the disaster response narrative.  With the cybersecurity module well along its way,…

Advisory Board May saw our project’s first advisory board meeting.  We had originally intended for this meeting to occur in San Francisco at the offices of our external evaluation firm,…