The third day at CHI PLAY 2016 ended the conference with important discussions focused on play, design, and the games industry. If you have not seen them yet, check the first and second day summaries out before continuing!

The day opened with an open discussion of future suggestions for the conference series and followed with the first Industry Panel, which counted with the expertise of Toni Phillips (Triseum), Sheri Graner Ray (Zombie Cat Studios), and Yelena Balin (b.well). The panelists addressed some of the challenges of the game industry, such as keeping up with the technology, innovating, engaging different audiences, and building diversity into games.

#CHIPLAY16 Industry Panel 1 of 2. pic.twitter.com/HqoLmZtguJ

— ACM CHI PLAY (@acmchiplay) October 19, 2016

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The second day at CHI PLAY had a lot of fun and important research! In case you’ve missed it, read about the first day before continuing.

Annika Waern presented the keynote of the day on Play, Participation and Empowerment, and left everyone reflecting about the opportunities that arise when designers let the players co-create the game rules and boundaries. It was followed by David Cohen‘s talk on Transformation Through Transparency, in which he emphasized the importance of collaboration between educators and game designers for building educational games, as well as the importance of embedding learning in a transparent way to allow players to enjoy playing and increase learning effectiveness.

#CHIPLAY16 Day 2 Keynote by @Wanais! pic.twitter.com/YUSmqFiOk9

— ACM CHI PLAY (@acmchiplay) October 18, 2016

Guidelines for making great transparent educational #games by @DS_Cohen at #chiplay16 #gbl #gamification pic.twitter.com/d6HrEbXKyv

— Gustavo Tondello (@GustavoTondello) October 18, 2016

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CHI PLAY is ACM’s international conference on human-computer interaction in play and games. This year, it is being held in Austin, Texas, from the 17th to 18th of October. I’ll be covering some of the spotlights of the conference daily here at the ACM XRDS blog!

After the official welcome, the first day opened with a keynote talk by Jamie Madigan from The Psychology of Video Games. It was a great talk filled with 30 research ideas for game and HCI scholars to investigate in the near future.

#CHIPLAY16 Monday Keynote. @JamieMadigan discusses the psychology of video games. pic.twitter.com/ehCEZ4f5aX

— ACM CHI PLAY (@acmchiplay) October 17, 2016

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