ETC project game received an honorable mention PEACEapp competition

ETC project from the spring 2014 semester, Team Transcendence‘s game TF-CBT: Triangle of Life, received and honorable mention in the United Nations Appliance of Civilizations PEACEapp competition.

The Transcendence team members of Etaba Assigana, Eric Chang, Seungsuk, Cho, Vivek Kotecha, Bing Liu, Hanna Turner and Yan (Rock) Zhang, augmented the Trauma-Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy process by creating a game to help teach children about the Cognitive Triangle consisting of thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and how to replace their negative thoughts with positive ones in order to improve their lives.

The project instructors were Mike Christel and Scott Stevens and had Allegheny Health Network as a client.  The team hopes to publish the game to the App Store soon. The team also presented their work at CHI PLAY in October.

Congratulations to Cho, Eric Chang, Bing, Hannah, Vivek, Rock, and Etaba!

PEACEapp is organized by the UNAOC and UNDP, in collaboration with Build Up, in order to promote digital games and gamified apps as venues for cultural dialogue and conflict management.The diversity of our winners this year reflects the incredible number of entries we received. Over 100 submissions from 42 different countries tackled different aspects of peacebuilding and cross-cultural dialogue in engaging and innovative ways. Our international jury of experts, drawn from the fields of peacebuilding, technology and international development, reviewed the entries and chose the winners.

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