IDEA: ORGANIZING COD EVENTS AT AALTO & STANFORD

We got this idea yesterday that we should organize a CoD playing event at each University.

Goals:

• Meet CoD players
• See them in action
• Create contacts for future observations & interviews
• Get our minds more into the scene

Organizing:

• Post a advert to University newsboard/newsmail/blog
• Get 6-10 people max - There cannot be 2 many peoples that everybody can play and there is still some kind of order
• There still has to be certain amount of people that they feel comfortable and that the atmosphere is enough social
• Serve Pizza & Coke (can be mentioned in the advert)
• Record the event somehow

Points to pay attention to:

• Divide clear tasks between the team
• Have a clear vision of agenda/goals/tasks
• How to record the event: audio/video without too much material
• How to make people comfortable while they are really intensively observed

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Wanted: all kinds of controlling devices

I think we should try to find all possible kind of controllers! 

From airplane cockpit to washing machine to game controllers. 

We can find cool ideas if we look a little further. Ideas to basic controller have probably come from other devices.

Finnish team to do before thursday

• Observe and interview gamers
• gaming party in Otaniemi 2.11 (x)

• Buy Xbox 360 and try out (x)

• Compare the xbox controller and pc in Call of Duty (x)

• Interview game store salesperson (x)

• Put questions of controllers up in gamer discussion forums
• What controllers u use?, what is good about them and what sucks?

• Try different controllers

• Look through some gaming magazines

• Find as many different types of controllers as possible (especially new and cool and special ones) -->If henrik and esa could do this tomorrow?