Katie Koehler's guest appearances

Katie Koehler

Dance On

TRIP | The Research Inclusion Project

Jocelyn Monahan

Maya Harris

Shannon Burke

Mani Srinivasan

Natalie Smith

Gea Cacioppo

Jordyn Williams

Becky Ciocca

Brittany Steward

Elise Lougee

Mario Valenti

Jalina Porter

Heather Daniesl

Ali Pickard

Tara Carbone

OwlTail

In this episode, Katie Koehler and Jocelyn Monahan both share how inclusion drives their own work from an internal researcher perspective. They share the successes and challenges of implementing authenticity and representation in gaming. Katie shares some helpful tips as she has learned the importance of documentation in her own research to help other researchers. And Jocelyn shares how her own personal experience as a female in gaming has given her insight to product design changes to encourage inclusion for women in the social gaming environment. This episode was recorded at the Riot Games offices in Santa Monica, California, thanks for having us guys! GUESTS Katie Koehler Riot Games - Creative Products Researcher Find her on LinkedIn Katie helps teams at Riot Games develop their strategies and make data-informed decisions during product development. She works with teams that are responsible for building out the world that Riot's in-game characters live in (like the Marvel universe) through cinematics, short stories, and television shows. She helps teams consider how they can make content that resonates with a diverse audience (women are gamers, too!) and how they can ensure Riot's in-game characters represent the diversity of League of Legends' expansive player base. Jocelyn Monahan Riot Games - Associate Analyst, Central Player Dynamics Find her on LinkedIn Jocelyn primarily is dedicated to systems that help drive the ways players interact with each other socially in our games. She is passionately dedicated to inclusivity both for people playing games and in the gaming industry and positive social design. Her career started in publication on social research and then evolved to understand player behavior within the gaming dynamics at Riot Games. SHOW NOTES Riot Games has been expanding their offerings and seek new ways of collecting data methods that reach beyond the current profile of their League of Legends player, and a need for more representation of diverse demographics. Katie &amp; Jocelyn have been leading the research efforts to making the impact with reaching and learning from new audiences while taking more inclusive approaches. As Katie says: “Be inclusive in your design of your inclusive research”. Katie &amp; Jocelyn share how internal feedback has become a central point of learning and help set up for success before demographic, gender, and data collected for player representation (and the legal practices as well!). They have found identity spaces helped navigate inclusion within their own community of employees to help a more collaborative effort and open for others to share their own cultural perspective that create a representative environment. They also shared the social experience is another part of player research where they need to understand data, and process of research planning for cohorts that are not often included because they are currently considered the “outlier”. For example, cannot design for women based on survivor bias. We can’t use data that only center  points on those that have “thick skin” who can ignore the negative comments and do not leave the game because they can tough it out. “Creating internal documentation or ‘research on research’ if you will has become my new checkpoint of my discovery process for inclusivity in my practice” – Katie Koehler  “Collaboration has been most useful for me. Going across different products with the same purpose in mind gives more perspective and eyes on what will make the most impact.” – Jocelyn Monahan  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/trippod/message

In this episode, Katie Koehler and Jocelyn Monahan both share how inclusion drives their own work from an internal researcher perspective. They share the successes and challenges of implementing authenticity and representation in gaming. Katie shares some helpful tips as she has learned the importance of documentation in her own research to help other researchers. And Jocelyn shares how her own personal experience as a female in gaming has given her insight to product design changes to encourage inclusion for women in the social gaming environment. This episode was recorded at the Riot Games offices in Santa Monica, California, thanks for having us guys! GUESTS Katie Koehler Riot Games - Creative Products Researcher <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/katielouisekoehler/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Find her on LinkedIn</a> Katie helps teams at Riot Games develop their strategies and make data-informed decisions during product development. She works with teams that are responsible for building out the world that Riot's in-game characters live in (like the Marvel universe) through cinematics, short stories, and television shows. She helps teams consider how they can make content that resonates with a diverse audience (women are gamers, too!) and how they can ensure Riot's in-game characters represent the diversity of League of Legends' expansive player base. Jocelyn Monahan Riot Games - Associate Analyst, Central Player Dynamics <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynmonahan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Find her on LinkedIn</a> Jocelyn primarily is dedicated to systems that help drive the ways players interact with each other socially in our games. She is passionately dedicated to inclusivity both for people playing games and in the gaming industry and positive social design. Her career started in publication on social research and then evolved to understand player behavior within the gaming dynamics at Riot Games. SHOW NOTES Riot Games has been expanding their offerings and seek new ways of collecting data methods that reach beyond the current profile of their League of Legends player, and a need for more representation of diverse demographics. Katie &amp; Jocelyn have been leading the research efforts to making the impact with reaching and learning from new audiences while taking more inclusive approaches. As Katie says: “Be inclusive in your design of your inclusive research”. Katie &amp; Jocelyn share how internal feedback has become a central point of learning and help set up for success before demographic, gender, and data collected for player representation (and the legal practices as well!). They have found identity spaces helped navigate inclusion within their own community of employees to help a more collaborative effort and open for others to share their own cultural perspective that create a representative environment. They also shared the social experience is another part of player research where they need to understand data, and process of research planning for cohorts that are not often included because they are currently considered the “outlier”. For example, cannot design for women based on survivor bias. We can’t use data that only center  points on those that have “thick skin” who can ignore the negative comments and do not leave the game because they can tough it out. “Creating internal documentation or ‘research on research’ if you will has become my new checkpoint of my discovery process for inclusivity in my practice” – Katie Koehler  “Collaboration has been most useful for me. Going across different products with the same purpose in mind gives more perspective and eyes on what will make the most impact.” – Jocelyn Monahan --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/trippod/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/trippod/message</a>

S01E01: Break through the mental models of your own bias | Katie Koehler & Jocelyn Monahan (Riot Games)

Katie Koehler joins Becky on the podcast to talk about her experiences as a high school dance coach, balancing collegiate dancing and coaching, and the ways dance has helped her in her life post-dance team. 

Katie Koehler joins Becky on the podcast to talk about her experiences as a high school dance coach, balancing collegiate dancing and coaching, and the ways dance has helped her in her life post-dance team.