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Pre-emptive Skype Session
Tuesday 18, August 2009
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Brett Young |
General Introduction and Skype test |
Notes from Talk: Exergaming Skype Session Transcript 18.08.09.pdf
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Friday 21 August, 02:00 pm GMT
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Brett Young |
What's hot and what's not? |
Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 21.08.09.pdf
Exergaming related news and developments from around the world.
What is contributing to Exergaming's progress and what is
detracting from it!
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Friday 28 August - 9 pm GMT
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Richard Coshott
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What is exergaming and where is it's future? |
Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 28.08.09.pdf
What really is the difference between exergaming, interactive fitness, eSports, virtual reailty and where is this heading? Where will we see exergaming in 5 years time, at a Doctor's surgery or in the trash?
DEFINING EXERGAMING V2.pdf Active working file for defining exergaming. Please review the PDF for further Skype discussions in 2 weeks
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Friday 04 September
9 pm GMT
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Sheryl Flynn PT, PhD & Belinda Lange PT, PhD.
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Games for Rehab |
Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 04.09.09.pdf
Games for Rehab discussion, where does games for rehab fall in the whole games for leisure/exercise/etc arena. Games for rehab is games for physical/occupational/speech/cognitive/psych desciplines.... Discussion will be led by Sheryl Flynn PT, PhD, and Belinda Lange PT, PhD
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Saturday 12 September
9 pm GMT
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Richard, Sandra and Brett are the hosts for this upcoming voice discussion |
Exergaming Defintion and Ratings System update
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Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 12.09.09.pdf
Further discussions on the defintion of Exergaming and the new Ratings System proposed; good idea, bad idea? Exergame Rating System & Exergaming Definitions
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Friday 25 September 9 pm GMT |
Alasdair and Emily |
Round up of the Leisure Industry Week: http://www.liw.co.uk |
Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 25.09.09.pdf |
Friday 9 October 9pm GMT |
Alasdair |
Reusable Research
Music in Exergaming
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Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 09.10.09.pdf
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Friday October 23rd 9PM (GMT) |
Helena, Lisa, Stephen, Ed, Tommy, |
Roundup of PETE conference, and Exergaming in Korea |
Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 23.10.09.pdf |
Friday November 6th 9pm GMT |
Press and Exergamers |
Exergaming in the Media - How do we promote the benefits |
Notes from Talk:SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 06.11.09.pdf |
Friday November 20th 9pm GMT |
Richard & Alasdair |
Exergaming in the Media - How do we promote the benefits - Part 2. |
Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 20.11.09.pdf |
Friday December 4th 9pm GMT |
Biray Alsac |
Exergaming in the Media - How do we promote the benefits - Part 3. |
Notes from Talk:SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 04.12.09.pdf |
December 18th 9pm GMT |
Santa and friends |
Exergaming in the Media - The final release. |
Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 19.12.09.pdf
Final comments for the world wide release of TEN's Exergaming online media doco. Ole of Positive Gaming talks from their new HQ in San Diego, Tommy Seilheimer talks of Exergame Fitness' latest successful road trip and general conversation about 2009 - and whats ahead for 2010.
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January 8th 9pm GMT |
Richard & Brett |
Exergaming 2010 |
Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 09.01.10.pdf
A look forwards to what's happening in 2010 and to set out the objectives of The Exergame Network
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January 22nd 9pm GMT |
Richard & Brett |
TEN's Exergaming Experience Rating System |
Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 23.01.10.pdf
TEN's next initiative is to test test and test (then refine, refine, refine) the EERS to assertain its usefulness as an aid to rate exergames and the exergaming experience.
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February 5th 2010 9pm GMT |
Richard & Brett |
Upcoming conferences, conventions, expo's etc and "How should Exergaming be best presnted at such events"
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Open forum for upcoming events and issues that will influence exergaming for 2010. What's on your mind with this amazing genre'?
(We'll give people some more time to complete the EERS form and come back to the EERS in the following session)
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February 19th 2010, (pm GMT |
Richard & Brett |
TEN's Think Tank session to gleen THE 'poster' topic for 2010!
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The conference season has kicked in and the feedback is clear: "What is Exergaming/Active Gaming for 2010". Have you say this Friday!
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April 9th 2010 9pm GMT |
Richard & Brett |
Check on the latest conference events and whats happening world wide with Exergaming (Subjects of G4H and Serious Games)
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Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 10.04.10.pdf
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April 23rd 2010 9pm GMT
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Richard & Brett
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Format for new exergamingnetwork.org website and create working group for EERS
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Notes from Talk: SKYPE DISCUSSION SESSION TRANSCRIPT 23.04.10.pdf
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FUTURE DISCUSSION TOPICS:
please feel free to add topics for discussion by clicking on the EDIT button at the top left of the page.
TOPICS |
DETAILS AND POINTS TO COVER |
IDEAL HOST/S |
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New Exergames?
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Invitation for Developer/Publishers to talk about exergames in development or newly released. |
Manufacturers |
New games, still in development, so we have the chance to offer feedback
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Exergaming in professional training
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Who's using exergaming as part of personal training or group fitness? What are their experiences / feedback? |
Fitness professionals |
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Exergaming demographics
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Who is exergaming applicable to? Teens, adults, obese adults/teens, seniors etc?
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Any |
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Business Models and Grants
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How do we deliver exergaming? How do we get funded?
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Any |
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Exergaming PR
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Acess to media including pictures, videos, reports, research etc
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Media professionals |
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MEMBERS PREFERRED DATES & SKYPE DETAILS:
*Privacy and spamming is an issue with Skype as much as any online communication, please use your personal information wisely! Keep your Skype name private unless you want to share it publicly*
Please enter your details into the table below (click on EDIT in the Tab above)
NAME
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M - F (GMT)
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SATURDAY (GMT)
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SUNDAY (GMT)
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COMMENTS |
SKYPE NAME (Optional)
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MEMBERS LINKS |
Sandra Uhling
(Summer: GMT+2
Winter: GMT+1)
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5:00 am - 10:00 pm |
5:00 am - 10:00 pm |
5:00 am - 10:00 pm |
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MachineDance |
Brett Young
(GMT +10)
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9:00 am - 2:00 pm |
6:00 am - 4:00 pm |
6:00 am - 4:00 pm |
My PC is online 24/7, I'm not, thankfully! |
Taswegianlad |
Exergaming Australia & Finland |
Richard Coshott
(GMT -1)
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Anytime |
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Gamercize |
Sheryl Flynn
(GMT -8)
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7am - midnight |
7am- midnight |
7am - midnight |
not avail on M or W |
sheryl.flynn |
www.bluemarblegameco.com |
Tommy Seilheimer
(GMT -6)
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Exergame Fitness USA |
Kevin Williams (GMT) |
Anytime |
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Copy of the LIW'07 exer-gaming
slide show - http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3253654&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro
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Emily Rosenberry
(GMT -6)
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Anytime |
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emily.rosenberry |
www.positivegaming.com |
Mark Martens (EST = GMT-6, I think) |
5 pm - 5 am. |
5 pm - 5 am. |
same |
Looking for action/results-oriented collaborations. Something with a concrete and useful goal. |
mark.martens |
www.pantometrics.com |
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SKYPE TIPS AND ADVICE
- Use a Headset! (Headphones with a microphone). At least attempt to use headphones as they reduce the 'feedback' to your microphone and make it a LOT easier for listeners to hear you comments. Headsets are VERY cheap these days and improve the quallity of your conference calls immensely.
- Laptops: Use a Headset first, if your not able to, use headphones and the microphone built into your laptop
- PC's: Use a Headset first, if not use headphones with a table microphone, or the micrphone in your Webcam.
- Double clicking on a contact's name, in the Contacts list, will allow you to chat directly to that person, but it will also show their local time.
- When you are invited to a Skype Conference, a separate Conference window will load up enabling you to:
- See the names of everyone attending the conference
- Talk to everyone in the conference group
- Type and send messages to the conference group
- Video will NOT be used for standard discussion sessions as video can be problematic in conferencing and a may reduce your bandwidth, lowering the quality of your sound and microphone output.
- When the host leaves the conferenece, the conference session will end immediately.
FURTHER SKYPE SESSION INFORMATION AND ETIQUETTE
This format is intended to provide a dynamic, informal, ‘round table’ discussion on topics that are directly relevant to our genre. Most importantly, it should be easy to access, enjoyable and productive, as we are all busy and hardly need further ‘meetings’ in our lives. I can best summarize these sessions by describing them as: ‘Serious Fun‘
WHY SKYPE?:
I recommend using Skype as it is quite stable and in widespread use. It offers a consistently high voice quality and is easy to setup a microphone and speakers. We won't be using 'Video' as it creates more problems than it solves, plus myself and Richard have faces best shown on radio :-) ...sorry Richard.
Please use a headset, if not, be aware that your speakers can 'feed back' sound into your microphone and cause a rather annoying distortion.
Should you be unfamiliar with the Skype interface, there is a slight learning curve, but it’s quite intuitive and very similar to Yahoo and MSN Messenger.
LATEST SKYPE VERSION: 18.08.2009 Version: 4.1.0.141
Please try and keep your version of Skype up to date as it can cause problems when transferring files or sharing documents etc.
PRIVACY:
Please distribute your Skype name wisely. Read the privacy settings section of Skype and use settings that you are comfortable with.
HOSTING:
Anyone is free to host a Skype session as they see fit. It would be preferable if they could use this portal, as it's been formatted, to arrange future Skype sessions. To make the Skype sessions successful the host will record, or nominate someone else to record, key points of the conversations. Since Skype allows for 'conferencing' everyone is free to talk AND write comments at any point. The host will 'try' to keep the conversation on-subject, invite and introduce attendees as they come and go, and suggest people 'record' their key points by typing them into the Skype chat area. The 'typed' conversation can then be copy-pasted into the Wiki, dated and subject headed accordingly.
SCHEDULES:
Depending on the response, it may be worthwhile setting up a regular Skype session. Perhaps once a week or fortnight? For the interim, it would be wise to see how the sessions develop. For the moment, adhoc sessions can be arranged as members see fit.
TIMEZONES:
It will be quite untenable to have a timeslot that will suit everyone. Initially we'll trial the session and 'iterate' the format as we progress. I think it’s entirely possible to have two sessions (on the same topic) at each end of the GMT scale that will allow for am and pm time slots.
SKYPE ETIQUETTE:
Our diverse backgrounds should promote a wonderful spectrum of opinions and expertise, I encourage people to express their opinions with conviction, and of course, we don’t have to agree, but please show respect for your colleagues and their opinions!
We have a vast variety of nationalities and dialects, so please be understanding of those who use English as a second, if not third language or even those of us still struggling with it as our native tongue :P
Comments (7)
Sandra_Uhling said
at 5:56 pm on Aug 13, 2009
how to calculate UTC to GMT?
Sandra_Uhling said
at 6:08 pm on Aug 13, 2009
Maybe an excel table would be great?
Does everyone have MS Excel ?
Richard Coshott said
at 6:14 pm on Aug 13, 2009
GMT is the same!
Sheryl Flynn said
at 9:47 pm on Aug 14, 2009
I am available M-F (actually T/Th or Fri from 7am to midnight PST (GMT -8) or Sat and Sun 7am to midnight...
kevin williams said
at 12:08 pm on Aug 17, 2009
will contact you to start the chat tomorrow.
kwp
Richard Coshott said
at 4:36 pm on Oct 12, 2009
Thanks for putting the transcript(s) up Brett!
yoonsin said
at 10:08 pm on Nov 20, 2009
I am here - but it seems like nobody is online now. If you are meeting now, could you add me to chatting? my skype id is yoonsinoh. Thank you-
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