• Episode 11: Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital with creative director Nikki Stearman

  • Feb 21 2025
  • Duración: 1 h y 8 m
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Episode 11: Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital with creative director Nikki Stearman

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  • We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to help them understand what the environment and procedure will be like. Michael's office refurb continues, as he trades signed music memorabilia for music speakers The great rebrand is in the works Lenny steals a lunch Nikki shows off her BAFTA Quickfire Questions Mac or PC? Greatest gaming console ever? Greatest game ever? Most addictive game on your phone? Yorkshire or East Anglia? Morris Ring, Morris Foundation, or Open Morris? Spend a day doing Freelance work, or a day doing your permanent job? Do you version control your code? Is big tech fundamentally evil? Death of Flash – sad or not sad? Breaking prod? Well that won't earn you a BAFTA! Nikki does her homework. Big Topic: Tech for good, making games for kids Tech for good – conscious choice or something you walked in to? Do you worry about screen time? Would you / have you ever taken a role you feel morally ambiguous about? How close do you get to the end user of your product? What’s a kid’s first interaction like with the games your company makes? Does it show demonstrable results in treatment? Do you make any games in your spare time? Research from Dylan Yamada-Rice on Exploring Children's attitides towards notions fo the digital good through hybrid arts (https://digitalgood.net/dg-research/exploring-childrens-attitudes-towards-notions-of-the-digital-good-through-hybrid-arts-practice/) News Are noise cancelling headphones causing health problems? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkjvr7x5x6o) Children’s views on AI will form the manifesto for world leaders (https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/childrens-views-ai-will-form-manifesto-world-leaders?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=Text_link&utm_campaign=Turing-News_childrens-views-ai-will-form-manifesto-world-leaders) AI to help us understand animal’s emotions (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/researchers-are-training-ai-to-interpret-animal-emotions/?utm_source=pocket_shared) Sri Lankan grid taken out by monkeys (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/sri_lanka_monkey_blackout?utm_source=pocket_shared) Recommendations Music This is Classic Club (https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/this-is-classic-club/pl.de3d438ba0724b3a8f309f333d9095b2) playlist, dance anthems (apple music) I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on our Side (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/fear-is-on-our-side/447611770) album, Alternative (apple music) Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/mystic-cigarettes/279131194) album, electronic (apple music) Podcasts Cloud Dialogues (https://www.cloud-dialogues.com) podcast from our guest on episode 7, Georgia Smith Books The Power of Bad and How to Overcome it (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/192339/the-power-of-bad-by-tierney-roy-f-baumeister-and-john/9780141975801) TV Am I being unreasonable? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001c3f7/am-i-being-unreasonable-series-1-episode-1?seriesId=m001c3f9-structural-1-m001c3f8) (BBC iPlayer) If you've enjoyed the show, please recommend us to someone else who would like it, leave us a rating/review, or give us some feedback. Give us your feedback about the podcast (https://www.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/feedback) Special Guest: Nikki Stearman.
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