Bob Hone

Biography

Bob is the Creative Director at Red Hill Studios—an innovative interactive design company in the San Francisco Area. He is the Principal Investigator on several NSF and NIH grant projects that seek to further the use of games in education and health. A current NSF research project is investigating optimal game design approaches for keeping students in the "Area of Maximal Engagement," the sweet spot between too boring and too frustrating. He is also currently designing cognitive games for people with Multiple Sclerosis and physical therapy games using the Wii for people with Parkinson's disease.

Sessions

• Environments, Puzzles, and Levels: What Games Designers Know That Educators Don’t
  Thursday, June 11

  2:00–3:00

  Browsing Library (2nd floor, West Central)