News and Updates

• New booklets are avaliable
  • On Fields of View- http://docs.fieldsofview.in/public/fov_booklet_17May2012.pdf
  • On Games at Fields of View- http://docs.fieldsofview.in/public/fov_games_booklet_16May2012.pdf
• Amar Chadgar and Megha Jois joined us in May. Amar is our resident designer and Megha is an animator.
• Aditi and Onkar have proposed a talk titled "Structuring data from surveys - A case study from a slum survey conducted in 2010" at The Fifth Elephant, a conference on data science by HasGeek (Click here to check out the talk and vote for it)
• Onkar has proposed a talk titled "Games for Data Collection" at Fifth Elephant (Click here to check out the talk and vote for it)
• You can now find us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
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New MoUs Signed

• Fields of View signed an MoU with International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore on 23rd February, 2012, in Bangalore.
• Fields of View signed an MoU with the University of Amsterdam's, Computational Science Department on the 26th April, 2012 at Fields of View, Bangalore.

Conferences, Workshops and other Events

The Indo-Dutch Experts Workshop held on 24th and 25th April was an initiative by NWO and IIIT-Bangalore. Fields of View helped organise the event. The participants included people from industry and academia from both the countries. The topics under discussion included serious games, urban systems, safety and health. The entire session of two days was conducted as a problem formulation exercise where the participants formed teams to come up with proposals and collaboration strategies to pursue them. The participants came up with six proposals under safety, games, health, education and urban systems.

Proposals and Projects

 U- Urban Systems P- Public Safety and Security G- Games S- Simulations V- Visualisations

• Smart Campus- U, S
  A smart campus addresses the problem of managing resources and services in a campus in an effective, sustainable and reliable manner. We propose to build a multi-agent tool that can be used for various campuses as part of this effort.
• Budget Adjust Maadi- U, G, V
  We submitted an entry to the Rockefeller foundation's 2012 Innovations Challenge to create a game that will help the marginalised and the semi literate understand the municipal budget of Bangalore. The game intends to increase public participation and inclusion of the marginalised in the budget planning process.
• Environmental resiliency modelling- U, G, S
  We plan to work with various stakeholders in Gujarat for a low-carbon, economically viable and a resilient development for the city of Surat in Gujarat. The effort will focus on creating an integrated model of the resource links and usages, economic and social activities among others.
• Alternative narrative of the slum journey- U, G, S, V
  We plan to work with the Computational Science Research Group at University of Amsterdam (http://uva.computationalscience.nl/) to understand the different trajectories of the various slums in Bangalore.
• Geo-spatial Interoperability for Disaster Management using a Multi-agent simulation- U, P, S
  We propose to use a multi-agent system to aid decision makers involved in disaster management and derive standards for geo-spatial interoperability of such a prototype system. The proposal has been submitted to the National Resources Data Management System, Department of Science and Technology, India.
• Games for training- P, G
  We are currently working on a proposal to use games to train scientists and technicians to operate and maintain a Steady State Superconducting Tokamak (http://ipr.res.in/sst1/SST-1.html). We plan to submit this proposal to the Institute for Plasma Research.
• Culture-aware games for safety training- P, G, V
  We propose to improve safety levels in a hazardous work environment using serious game training. The game will be used to explore and incorporate cultural biases towards safety and thus, allowing the game to be used with a multi-cultural workforce. This proposal has been submitted to a company with a high risk environment with a diverse workforce.
• Visualising the Law- P, V
  We are in discussions with local grass-root organisations to make the law accessible by visualising it. The initial effort will be in the area of domestic violence. We hope to use this as a case study to create a framework that can help develop more such tools.
• Serious Game Course- G
  We are developing a 101 course on design of serious games using some of the games developed by members of Fields of View as case studies. The focus of this course is to understand the process for development and the requirements for a serious game.

Publications

• "PIEMAC Game: Protocols for Information Exchange in Multi-Agency Collaborations" has been submitted to Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research in the ready to use games category.
• "Indian Energy Game" has been submitted to Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research in the ready to use games category.

Visitors

• In the month of March
  • Brigadier (Retired) Vijay Franklin
  • Warren Greving from Srishti Labs
  • Prof. Poonacha P G from IIIT-B
  • Manik Kalra from Jademagnet
  • Dr. Geleyn Meijer from University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam
  • Prof. Peter Sloot from University of Amsterdam
  • Dr. Anouk Tso from University of Amsterdam
• In the month of April
  • Nadine Kaesler from Detecon
  • Ricardo Barth from Deloitte
  • Prof. Margot Weijnen from TUDelft
  • Prof. Ben Schouten from Eindhoven University
  • Prof. Peter Sloot from University of Amsterdam
  • Prof. Arjan Egges from Utrecht University
  • Gijs Gootjes and Mattijas Blekemolen from MediaLAB, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.