Tag: Virtual Worlds Research Group

• Sense-Making and Avatars Research Proposal

  

  This post contains a research proposal I wrote in 2008 for a project to involve virtual worlds that I never completed. This proposal would be changed to become the main experiment I did with the Roskilde University Virtual Worlds Research Group. If anyone is interested in building off this proposal, then please contact me. Sense-making […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 7, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Gendering Robots, Virtual Worlds

  avatars, experiments, focus groups, information-seeking, interviews, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, tasks, Virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Research Group

• Making Sense of Superhero Films

  The following is the bulk of the presentation I will be giving this Friday, October 11th, at the Midwest Popular Culture Association conference in St. Louis.  For all of you (which is the majority of the world) who cannot be there to hear the presentation, I give you what it is all about — my […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 7, 2013

  Film Studies, Superheroes

  cinematic entanglement, cognitive theory, critical engagement, David Bordwell, Elektra, Fantastic Four, Film, film spectators, film spectatorship, Films, Iron Man, Janet Staiger, Martin Barker, minutia reception, moment-by-moment, Roskilde University, Sense-making, Spider-Man, Superheroes, The Dark Knight, Virtual Worlds Research Group, X-Men

• Virtual Worlds – Sense-making and Innovation

  The team from the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University in Denmark were filmed giving talks about their varied and unique research projects — about the major findings that came out of their participation in the group.  You can view each by following this link.  Unfortunately, unless you understand Danish, only mine and Ates’ […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 27, 2012

  Virtual Worlds

  avatars, dialogue, innovation, interactive design, machinima, Presence, Roskilde University, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, Virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Research Group

• How People Make Sense of Virtual Worlds — and Why It Matters

  This video was produced by Roskilde University, with assistance from Dominican University, to summarize and even illustrate some of the findings from my research study, Virtual Worlds Entertainment. In this video I discuss what I had done, what I had learned, and perhaps what others can learn from it all.

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 16, 2012

  Virtual Worlds

  Dominican University, Roskilde University, Virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Research Group

• Making Sense of Entertainment in Virtual Worlds

  In September of 2008, with the ink on my doctorate barely dry, I jumped a plane and landed in Denmark.  I had accepted a post-doctorate research fellowship at Roskilde University with the Virtual Worlds Research Project.  My main research project with the group would turn out to be a qualitative experiment to understand how people […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 25, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games, Virtual Worlds

  City of Heroes, Denmark, Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology, experiment, helps, Hindrances, innovation, interface, metaphors, Nintendo Wii, qualitative experiment, questions, Roskilde, Roskilde University, Second Life, Sense-making, Superheroes, Virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Research Group