This group is for Games User Researchers or those that are interested in Games User Research in the San Francisco Bay Area.  In addition to keeping in touch on the Games User Research group on LinkedIn, we sought a need to organize face-to-face meetups to further build our community and facilitate the exchanges information and ideas.

… Discussions about investigative journalism, public records access, citizen arrests, martial arts, the use of force, maintaining privacy, weapons, armor, uniform design, team work, legal protections, medical backup, digital technologies, and more will occur, and professional speakers brought in to address these very issues. Civil codes, case law, codes of conduct and core values will be parsed as discussion and debate amongst this diverse community of characters. This is a serious group. It is NO …

… http://silicon-valley.siggraph.org Recent meetings: Our annual presentation of the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, a video presentation of cutting edge computer animation from the SIGGRAPH conference, that occurs around the start of the year. Computer Vision Techniques for High-end Visual Effects by Chris Bregler and Kiran Bhat, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the VFX branch of LucasFilm Mobile Visual Computing by Kari Pulli and Radek Grzeszczuk, Nokia Research Center Unity Techn …

The Digital Media SIG (special interest group) meets 5 times per year to explore the emerging concepts and platforms that are constantly reshaping "digital media" as we know it. New platforms are mobile, new currencies are virtual, and the reality has been augmented. A generation has grown up digital, and the game is increasingly social. The Digital Media SIG is the place to find the talent and projects that will reshape the territory in ways we haven't yet thought of. Have your own ideas about …

… There is something about the immediacy of writing code and designing hardware that grabs hold of our brain, holds us down in the trees, and won't let us float up to where we might see the forest. As a result, there is less and less science in Computer Science. Lots of practice, very little theory. CLINE is the anti-engineering prescription this valley needs but won't admit needing. Medication time! Thank you, and welcome to the jungle!   Randall Lee Reetz   Who should join? Anyone who can …