XRDS Editors

Some “behind-the-scenes” questions:

• what’s the prototyping and playtesting process for these games?
• What’s something you thought crowds could do, but they really stunk at?
• What academic and practioner-oriented fields do you draw on most when designing, building and testing a game? (Design? Psych? Game studies? CS?)
• How do you come up with the ideas.
• What were some other influences — this is a wierd direction for a CS person to go.

john klienberg

language translation 1.5 years

Grad student questions:

• if a starting PhD student knew that they wanted to do research in human computation topics, how could they best prepare themselves?
• How did it first occur to you that “human computation” was something that you could present as a new area of research?
• How long did it take you to develop the original idea of the ESP game, and to figure out how to convey it to a research audience? (Was there a period where nobody took you seriously? Did you ever change how you talked about the idea?)
• How can grad students build on your ideas without being eclipsed by your research shadow? (Dunno if I like this question.)
• (A standby:) Who’s your academic hero?