Real world engagement tech
There are so many good events this week! On Monday there's Kate Hartman and Chris Harrison, and on Wednesday Joe Edelman is coming to speak about creating more human connection, public spaces, and tech.
When: 5 February, 12pm - 1pm
Where: 340 Moffit (the BCNM commons, right by the Free Speech Movement Café, aka FSM) http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/index.php/spaces/
ABSTRACT: Some of us are in our pajamas, busy creating the next paradigm in public space. What tools are we using? Is there an art to getting strangers to interact, and is that art different in social locative software or real world game design than it was in urban planning? Of all the stranger-stranger apps and real world game design platforms out there, which are toys and which may form the new pedestrian layer for our cities? I'll talk for 20 minutes about some stuff I've done and know about in this space, and then we'll rumble.
BIO: Joe Edelman has been lucky. He worked on the precursor to Kinect at Interval Research, on community algorithms at Couchsurfing, on collaborative filtering at MIT, on crowd choreography with Improv Everywhere, and on real world games with Come Out and Play. His gets to speak at gigs like GDC, FooCamp, and SXSW. Couchsurfing has organized 11M positive experiences between strangers and 600K close friendships. He will continue to use tech to create community, build friendships, and bring people together in the real world.
