{"585052":{"#nid":"585052","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Proposal by Camille Barchers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETHE SCHOOL OF CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EUnder the provisions of the regulations for the degree\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003Eon Thursday, January 12, 2017\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003E2:00 PM to 4:00 PM\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ein \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArchitecture EAST 214 (formerly room 217)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ewill be held the\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EDISSERTATION PROPOSAL DEFENSE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003Efor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ECamille Victoria Barchers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;A new model for public engagement: games and social learning\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Examiners Are: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Bruce Stiftel, Chairperson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Steve French, Chairperson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Chris Le Dantec\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Robert Goodspeed, University of Michigan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Eric Gordon, Emerson College\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty and students are invited to attend this examination.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis dissertation demonstrates how game playing can create opportunities for social learning in public participation activities and whether and to what extent participants demonstrate enhanced collaborative decision making (collective intelligence) as a result. This research also demonstrates whether or not online gaming can create the same or better opportunities for social learning\u0026mdash;highlighting the potential of Internet Communication Technology (ICT) to advance public engagement activities. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate how planners might practically and intentionally design small group activities to enhance public participation exercises, develop the abilities of participants to contribute at a higher level, and take advantage of ICT to advance collaborative planning theory in practice.\u0026nbsp; Literature from collaborative planning theory, organizational behavior, and game theory is used to explain the importance of social learning, identify the potential for games to be used as a team building interventions, determine how interventions can be deployed in practice, and demonstrate the ability of games to change team behaviors in measurable ways that have been successfully used to predict team performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy using an experimental research design to test public participation methods, this research provides new perspectives on public participation and civic engagement. The impacts of this research are important not only for planners, but for all institutions that rely on collaborative decision making and want to improve group processes. This work advances the team building literature by examining how an intervention can be used to enhance group performance within and among temporarily convened groups of individuals.\u0026nbsp; This work advances the collaborative planning literature by defining specific and applied methods that planners can use to achieve important intermediary goals such as social learning, but also because it demonstrates the basis for claims that social learning is a significant variable that leads to other beneficial outcomes, previously only theoretically hypothesized.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new model for public engagement: games and social learning\u201d"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2016-12-14 18:48:58","changed_gmt":"2016-12-14 18:48:58","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-01-12T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2017-01-12T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-01-12T16:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-01-12 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-01-12 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-01-12 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"102851","name":"Phd proposal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}