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SUMMARY:Using outbreak games to learn about real outbreaks - Andrés Colub
 ri\, University of Massachusetts
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CONTACT:Ryan Gibb
DESCRIPTION:This talk will introduce the Operation Outbreak (OO) platform 
 (https://operationoutbreak.org/). OO follows the steps of pioneering proje
 cts such as Thinking Tags and FluPhone\, by enabling participatory epidemi
 c games where a digital pathogen spreads through participants' mobile devi
 ces. These games provide an immersive activity for students to learn about
  outbreak science and generate real-world datasets that can be used by res
 earchers to study how human behaviour influences disease dynamics. The tal
 k will go over the history of OO\, data from recent games\, and next steps
  with the project.\n\nAndrés Colubri is an assistant professor in the Dep
 artment of Genomics and Computational Biology at the University of Massach
 usetts Chan Medical School. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the Univers
 idad Nacional del Sur in Argentina and an MFA from the Design Media Arts D
 epartment at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Andrés' hybrid c
 areer has traversed science\, technology\, and art. His lab now brings tog
 ether computational scientists\, software engineers\, and visual designers
  to develop new methods and tools for infectious disease research (https:/
 /co-labo.org/)
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