20–22 May 2015
Europe/Ljubljana timezone

What role does technology play in inspiring social innovation?

Not scheduled

Description

Over the last eight years Dr Mark Lochrie researchers how communities participate in mobile services, whether it be a playful nature or through more serious applications. Mark has recently begun a new challenge working at the Media Innovation Studio, UCLan. As a Creative Technologist investigating ways creative experiences, gameful design and technology can be used to generate data, encourage participation and educate. That is achieved through the design, development and deployment of applications 'in the wild'. In his talk today, Mark will proceed through work that is of relevance to determining the role technology plays in inspiring social innovation, some cases are related works, his own and future works in the pipeline.

Primary author

Dr Mark Lochrie (University of Central Lancashire)

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