SC Global 03 Showcase Session Proposal: AG Games Meeting 1

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SC Global 03 Showcase Session ProposalAG Games
(Meeting 1)
Allan Spale
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Participants

• ACCESS DC
• Tom Coffin, tcoffin_at_ncsa.uiuc.edu
• Univ. of Montana-Missoula
• Don Morton, donmorton_at_fastmail.fm
• Yolanda Reimer, yreimer_at_fastmail.fm
• Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln (SDI)
• Lai Lim, llim_at_cse.unl.edu
• Univ. of New Mexico (HPCERC)
• Jeff Shuckra, jshuckra_at_hpcerc.unm.edu
• SURFnet
• Bart Kerver, Bart.Kerver_at_surnet.nl
• Maarten Koopmans, Maarten.Koopmans_at_surfnet.nl
• EVL_at_UIC
• Gene Ostrovsky, gene_at_evl.uic.edu
• Allan Spale, aspale_at_evl.uic.edu

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Session Proposal

• Focus on nonverbal communication over the AG
• Play a game of charades composed on 2 teams of 3
  people
• Focus on how to use a personal venue on a
  laptop (using PIG) while in a main session
  using a full AG node
• Play a round-robin trivia game

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Timetable for the Session

• Welcome and explanation of session 10
  minutes
• Games 40 minutes
• Charades 20 minutes
• Round-robin trivia 20 minutes
• Audience/remote site question and answer 10
  minutes

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Session Introduction

• Nonverbal communication
• Compliments verbal communication
• Carries an additional channel of meaning
• Concept of dual presence
• Extending chat rooms, instant messaging to
  videoconferencing (and beyond)
• Like sitting in an auditorium and being able to
  talk/share ideas with people around you without
  interrupting the main session

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Session Game Equipment

• Have a laptop pointing to team venue
• AG PIG software
• Headset with microphone
• USB webcam
• Participate from AG node pointing to game venue
• When consulting with team members, mute AG node
  mic near player to prevent eavesdropping
• Cover mouth to prevent lipreading (necessary?)

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Session Game Charades

• 2 teams of 3 people
• Person presents charade in main venue with his
  team members with mics live in main venue
• Team not guessing can consult about possible
  answer in their team venue
• If current team guess incorrectly, the other team
  may guess
• Possible twists on the game
• Have 2 people present charade, not just 1 person
• If in trouble, have another person help act out
  charade with only one person guessing

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Session Game Round-Robin Trivia

• Similar to Weakest Link
• Round-robin of trivia questions until time
  expires
• Scoring
• Base-point value
• Multiplied by of consecutive correct answers
• Multiplied by of teams answering question wrong
• 2 rounds with 2nd round having a doubled
  base-point value
• No one gets eliminated/voted off

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Session Game Round-Robin Trivia

• Each team receives a question
• Team members discuss the answer in their team
  venue before responding
• Response given in game venue
• Incorrect answers
• Next team in order gets a chance, and if that
  team is wrong, remaining team gets a chance
• If all teams guess wrong, question is thrown
  out and a new question is given to the team that
  first answered incorrectly

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Project Timeline Leading to Submission Date
(April 7-21)

• Meeting 2
• Evaluate feasibility of dual-venue concept
• Meeting 3
• Have charades, trivia questions ready
• Practice game sessions
• Keep score using WBD
• Meeting 4
• Try and decide on scoreboard type
• Try and decide on audience participation
• Meeting 5
• Create proposal for submission (can be concurrent
  process done offline between meetings)

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Open Items

• Audience participation
• Allow audience members to play against team
• Have them play along via entering answers and
  keeping score on web pages
• Have audience give hints to players via instant
  messaging
• Allow audience to submit charade topics and
  choose trivia questions to ask
• Other suggestions

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Open Items

• Scoreboard
• Use VNC to display a program with an interface to
  keep score
• Use WBD (whiteboard)
• Use Java applet, Macromedia Flash
• Other suggestions

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Open Items

• Charade topics
• TV show, Movie, Book, Song, Other
• Trivia questions
• Level of difficulty
• Restrict to certain topics
• Where to find them

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Discussion