Elizabeth Lawley
Director, Lab for Social Computing, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Elizabeth Lane Lawley is the director of the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she is also an associate professor of Interactive Games & Media. Her current teaching and research interests focus on social computing technologies such as weblogs, wikis, virtual worlds, collaborative information retrieval, and gender imbalances in technology and education.

Sessions

1:00pm Thursday, 05/06/2010
Picture the Impossible: How an Online Game Can Change Your Offline Community
Focus on Community
 Location: Room 2009
Elizabeth Lawley (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Creating vibrant local communities online is a growing user expectation yet remains a complex task. Liz Lawley, director of the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, shares insight into the alternate reality game her team built with the local newspaper and how to create a compelling local experience for consumers that melds online interaction with offline engagement. Read more.
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