Updates & Events

Updates

  • Minigames work presented at the UCSC Grad Slam 3-Minute-Thesis competition by MJ Johns as a finalist, March 2, 2024, at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA                   

  • 2024 Smart and Connected Communities Principal Investigators’ Meeting, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN February 28th – 29th, 2024

 

Research Progress

We are sending quarterly e-newsletters to community partners, interview participants, and anyone interested in our project. To be added to the mailing list, please let us know.

You may find progress of our project team, updated on our newsletter.

September 2023 | Issue#1
December 2023 | Issue#2
March 2024 | Issue#3

 

 

 

 

Previous Events

  • West Marin Wildfire Evacuation Simulations Workshop, March 4th, 2024, Dance Palace Community & Cultural Center, Point Reyes Station, CA

 

 

  • Marin Community Workshop, October 26th, 2023, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA. 

 

  • Presentation at the Civil Air Patrol’s meeting, June 6th, 2023, Oakland, CA.

 

  • Presentation at the Alameda County Emergency Managers’ Association (ALCO EMA) meeting, May 24th , 2023, Dublin at the Alameda County Office of Emergency Services, CA.

 

  • Marin Community Workshop, May 10th, 2023, at Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority, San Rafael, CA.

 

 

  • Alameda Community Workshop, February 15th, 2023, at East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), Oakland, CA.

See UC Berkeley CEE news on our previous events

Upcoming Events

  • Berkeley Hills Wildfire Evacuation Simulation Meeting, April 29, 2024 via Zoom
  • Sunol Wildfire Evacuation Traffic Simulation Meeting, May 9, 2024 via Zoom

  • Tomales-Dillon Beach Wildfire Evacuation Simulation Meeting, May 9, 2024 via Zoom

  • Presentation on the Participatory Design of a Serious Game, at the Association of Computing Machinery CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 11 – 16, 2024, at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

  • Tomales Bay Board Game Workshop, May 18, 2024, at the Tomales Townhall, Tomales, CA
  • Presentation on the Social Vulnerability in Wildfire Resilinece, at the WeRISE (Working to Eradicate in Science and Engineering) Summit, May 24, at the University of California, Berkeley in a hybrid format

  • Minigames Community Testing in Spring

  • Presentation on minigames for our project, at the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, July 14 – 17, 2024, Colorado

  • Community Workshops in early Fall

  • Ember Stomp Wildfire Prevention Festival, September 7, 2024, San Rafael, CA