Dylan Yamada-Rice

Royal College of Art

Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice is a Senior Tutor in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art. She is also a Senior Research Manager for Dubit, a company that specialises in strategy, research, and digital for kids entertainment brands. Her research is at the intersection of experimental design and social sciences, focusing on the design of digital storytelling, games and play on a range of platforms such as apps, augmented and virtual reality, as well as new content for television. She specialises in experimental visual and multimodal methods.

Recent Publications:

  • Yamada-Rice, D. (2019) Including Children in the Design of the Internet of Toys: In Mascheroni, G. & Holloway, D. (Eds) The Internet of Toys: Practices, Affordances and the Political Economy of Children’s Smart play.
  • Yamada-Rice, D., Rodrigues, D. & Zubrycka, J. (2019) Makerspaces and Virtual Reality Chapter 9. In: Marsh, J. Enhancing digital Literacy and Creativity. Routledge
  • Yamada-Rice, D. (2018) Licking planets and Stomping on Buildings: children’s interactions with curated spaces in Virtual Reality. Children’s Geographies, Vol.16, No. 5. Recent Media work
    Educational consultant for Foundling Bird’s TV series Moon and Me

All Sessions by Dylan Yamada-Rice

  • 20. Nov | Summit Day

    The Summit Day will feature talks, project presentations, panel discussions, and workshops.

  • 10:15  - 11:00
    In this presentation, I will share some of the insights I have gained from undertaking various research projects about children and Virtual Reality. Specifically, I will draw on three studies in this area and share key findings that have specific implications for how we design and think about this technology for younger users. The first is a commercially funded project, undertaken as part of my work for Dubit (https://www.dubitlimited.com/) a company specialising in strategy, research and development of digital media for children. The study known as the CVR report (http://childrenvr.org/) was undertaken at the dawn of this latest wave of VR, and provides initial insight into how children interact with a range of virtual content on both low and top-end Head Mounted Displays. This study also provides insights into health and safety aspects of using VR with under 12-year-olds. The presentation will then go on show how the CVR study provided some interesting insight into the role of physical materials in children’s virtual play. This will lead to sharing details of a second project that was part of a large-scale EU study on how children can use makerspaces and Fablabs to create with and for VR. This was a collaborative study with Glück Workshops and Vaikai in Berlin, as part of the wider MakEY project (https://makeyproject.eu/). Finally, I will share some insights from my most recent AHRC/ ESRC funded network which has been exploring location-based VR experiences for children in the UK and Japan. References: -Yamada-Rice, D., Mushtaq, F., Woodgate, A., Bosmans, D, Douthwaite, A, Douthwaite, I, Harris, W, Holt, R, Kleeman, D, Marsh, J, Milovidov, E, Mon Williams, M, Parry, B, Riddler, A, Robinson, P, Rodrigues, D, Thompson, S and Whitley, S, (2017), Children and Virtual Reality: Emerging Possibilities and Challenges. Avaliable online at http://childrenvr.org. -Yamada-Rice, D., Rodrigues, D. & Zubrycka, J. (in press) Makerspaces and Virtual Reality Chapter 9. In: Marsh, J. Enhancing digital Literacy and Creativity. Routledge UK-Japan VR Network: https://ukjapanvr.wordpress.com/
    20. Nov | Media Education Summit: Digital Games and Children
    Where
    room 106 (ifs)

  • 11:45  - 12:15
    Panel discussion
    20. Nov | Media Education Summit: Digital Games and Children
    Where
    room 106 (ifs)

  • 21. Nov | Main Conference Day

    The main day of the Clash of Realities will feature renowned speakers from all around the globe.

  • 14:30  - 15:15
    How can design and play-based methods help children feed their ideas into the design of tech products? How can kids and VR research be turned into physical prototypes and products? Dylan provides examples of how research, design and development can marry up well. Her presentation will address ideas around how children’s expertise about their own play interests and digital games designers’ knowhow can be better aligned in the design and development stage of new types of digital play.
    21. Nov | Keynotes on the Main Conference Day
    Where
    Cinema Lecture Hall




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