GSE/DIS: FYI Site: Research Findings on Gender and Games for the Game Industry and Game Design Educators

向游戏行业传达关键的研究结果有可能提高行业对负面刻板印象影响的认识，并提出切实可行的方法，使游戏对女孩和女性更具吸引力。接触游戏设计专业的学生和他们的老师也有助于教育下一代游戏设计师，让他们更加关注性别和游戏。该项目将采用受众参与设计方法和利益相关者参与，设想并创建一个持久的，技术先进的，信息丰富的，权威的，互动的在线工具，用于传播性别和游戏研究成果，精心定制，以满足商业，教育和严肃游戏行业专业人士和游戏设计教育者的目标受众的公开和微妙的专业和个人需求和兴趣。该项目由密歇根州立大学GEL实验室（游戏4娱乐和学习）开发和支持。知识价值——仅供参考，网站旨在传播性别和游戏研究成果，告知并理想地修改商业和教育游戏行业实践，以便更好地服务和激励女孩和女性。在开发FYI网站的过程中，技术人员和设计团队将认真听取研究人员，商业和教育游戏行业专业人士以及游戏设计教育者的意见，以优化这个现代专业行业-学术界渠道的形式，风格，内容和社交互动。将通过利益相关者的参与，包括成立志愿编辑委员会，促进参与和推广。更广泛的影响——当游戏专业人士或教育工作者需要这些内容时，FYI网站将通过提供精心定制的信息来吸引更多的用户。FYI Site可以作为其他娱乐研究产业管道的原型和模型。通过探索Web 2.0技术，如音频和视频播客和社会标签，FYI网站将新兴技术与以用户为中心的设计实践相结合。

Communicating key research findings to the game industry has the potential to raise industry consciousness about the impacts of negative stereotypes and suggest tangible ways to make games more appealing to girls and women. Reaching students in game design programs and their teachers could also help educate the next generation of game designers become more aware of and concerned about gender and games. This project will use audience participation design methods and stakeholder involvement to envision and create a persistent, technologically advanced, informative, authoritative, interactive online vehicle for disseminating gender and games research findings, carefully tailored to the overt and subtle professional and personal needs and interests of the target audience of commercial, educational, and serious game industry professionals and game design educators. The project is developed and supported through the Michigan State University GEL Lab (Games 4 Entertainment and Learning). Intellectual Merit--FYI Site will be designed to disseminate gender and game research findings to inform and ideally modify commercial and educational game industry practices so they will better serve and inspire girls and women. In developing FYI Site technologists and a design team will listen carefully to researchers, commercial and educational game industry professionals and game design educators with the goal of optimizing form, style, content, and social interaction of this modern, specialized industry-academia conduit. Participation and promotion will be fostered through stakeholder involvement including formation of a volunteer editorial board.Broader Impacts-- FYI Site will reach a larger audience by making carefully tailored information available when the game professional or educator encounters a need for that content. FYI Site can serve as a prototype and model for other entertainment research-industry conduits. By exploring Web 2.0 technologies such as audio and video podcasting and social tagging, FYI Site merges emerging technologies with user centered design practices.