Kathleen Tyner presented opening speech at the 2nd International Conference on Serious Games, in Braga

Kathleen Tyner, Assistant Professor in the Radio- Television-Film Department at the University of Texas at Austin presented the opening keynote speech at the Second Annual International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Appli-cations on March 25-26, 2010 in Braga, Portugal. The speech, An Array of Play: Games for Living and Learning, presented a wide range of contexts for serious games and virtual worlds across academic disciplines.

The conference, hosted by the Universidade de Minho in Braga, convened researchers, game producers and computer scientists from around the world to present and discuss the latest research in the area of “serious games.” The next conference in 2011 will be held in Greece. To see complete details, including the winning research papers from the conference, please click on: http://www.vsgames2010.org/

Preceding the conference, as part of the Co-Lab effort to identify co-supervision activities for students, Professor Tyner also presented her research on digital media to graduate students at the University of Porto on March 23, 2010. The meeting was coordinated by Professor Artur Pimenta Alves, Co-Director of Digital Media at the University of Porto and offered an opportunity for students to present their current work and to learn about links to people and resources that could support their research.