Disney Interactive Studios self-publishes and distributes a broad portfolio of multi-platform video games and interactive entertainment worldwide. Formerly Buena Vista Games, Inc. (and before that, simply Disney Interactive), the company is the interactive entertainment arm of the Disney Company's Consumer Products business unit for developing, marketing and distributing a broad portfolio of PC and multi-platform games worldwide, as well as the license holder for externally-developed products featuring Disney entities. The studio publishes both Disney and non-Disney branded video games for all platforms worldwide, with titles that feature its consumer brands including Disney, ABC Television, Disney/Pixar and Touchstone.
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices and the Internet. EA, headquartered in Redwood City, California, is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless devices and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS™, EA™, EA Mobile™ and POGO™. In fiscal 2009, EA had 31 titles that sold more than one million copies, and three titles that each sold more than five million copies including FIFA 09, Madden NFL 09 and Need for Speed Undercover.
The Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g), founded by user experience pioneers Donald Norman and Jakob Nielsen, advocated user-centered design and usability before it became popular to do so. The NN/g is comprised of experts on corporate culture and the human-centered product development process, helping companies enter the age of the consumer by designing human-centered products and services. NN/g develops corporate-wide customer-centered product development strategies and processes, which results in faster design cycles, customers who are more satisfied and more loyal, and the transition of help lines and service desks from complaint posts and cost centers into positive customer experiences.
The Games, Learning, and Society (GLS) group, based in the Educational Communications and Technology Program in Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, is a collection of academic researchers, interactive media (or game) developers, and government and industry leaders who investigate how this medium operates, how it can be used to transform how we learn, and what this means for society. As such we seek to understand what cognitive work goes into playing Zelda, World of Warcraft, or Civilization, how these design features might be leveraged to improve learning via the design of learning systems, and how organizations such as schools will need to respond.
The Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies (LILT) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa pursues a diverse portfolio of cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and social science approaches to technology-supported learning and collaboration. Currently active projects include the study and design of technology affordances for intersubjective meaning-making in small group collaboration and for relationship formation and synergy in online social networks, and envisioning and prototyping applications of new wireless and augmented reality technologies to leverage social information sharing.
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