Visiting MIT Media Lab

I’ve been invited over to the MIT Media Lab this morning by Angela Chang, a student there working on her PhD dissertation on emergent literacy. She asked if she could interview me about my work as a game designer, in particular the types of visual or organizational techniques I use to draw people’s attention. Then she’s lined up a couple of hours worth of demos by other students who are doing things with animation, interactivity, social networking, etc. Apparently, a lot of people are doing some “strange things” with Flash over there: “building some connectivity modules for all sorts of networking protocols, controlling robots, and working on toys for autistic kids.” Should be really interesting. I’ve always admired some of the stuff that’s come out of the Media Lab, and although I used to work right around the corner at Brightcove in Cambridge, I never got to visit. Should be fun!