Welcome to the Exertion Games Lab

Highlighted project: Joggobot

Joggobot explores how robots might make exercises such as jogging more engaging in the future.

After having 8 publications and exhibiting 4 interactive projects, the Exertion Games Lab team who flew to Austin, TX for CHI 2012 is back in Melbourne to share their experiences with you! Visit the lab for a brief rundown of the trip and ask any questions you might have to prepare you for CHI next year. Everyone is welcome!

Where: Exertion Games Lab, RMIT (Building 9, Level 1, Room 27|32)
When: Wednesday 16th May, @ 3-4PM

Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller from the Exertion Games Lab has been invited to speak at the “Next Generation Multimedia Research and Development” event on 2&3 May 2012 at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus.

Josh on guitar, visually amplified by our interactive helmet. Would it enhance the spectator experience of a musical audience? We will found out when we start performing with it on the street. Next stage: hooking it up to an accelerometer, so we can make it respond to physical movement!
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Our own Harry Lee is in the latest issue of the Qantas Inflight magazine, Danielle found him while on the way to the US presenting her work at CHI’12!

We will be having another paper editing session:

Thursday, 26 April, 11.45-12.45 in the Exertion Games Lab.

We will be focusing on Related Work: if you have a Related Work section of one of your papers you would like to get feedback on, please print out ca. 6 copies, double-spaced, and bring them along. We will then edit each others’ papers, to make them even greater! Everyone welcome.

Sebastiaan Pijnappel and Ruth Huerga will be giving two talks about their prior work on

Tuesday, 24 April, 1-2pm in the Exertion Games Lab.

Sebastiaan has just recently joined the Exertion Games Lab full-time and will talk about his past projects including work involving exertion and interactive technologies such as his last baseball project with Adidas. Ruth Huerga is doing a Masters at RMIT and spends a lot of time in the lab as she brings in expertise in interactive storytelling and embodied poetry, currently working on a project with children in hospital.

Sebastiaan Pijnappel joins the Exertion Games Lab today. Sebastiaan has a background in interaction and industrial design with a bachelor and master degree, getting his education from TU/e, the Netherlands, RMIT, and Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), USA. He has done great work on the intersection of technology and sports before, including for clients such as Adidas. His impressive portfolio is at Sebastiaan Pijnappel and his last name is pronounced “pineapple”, but  does not mean pineapple. Please welcome Sebastiaan!

Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller is giving a guest lecture in the Research and Practice lecture series organised by Chris Barker on Thu, 12 Apr 2012, at RMIT in Bldg. 13, Room 1, from 5.30-6.30pm. Floyd will be talking about how the Exertion Games Lab’s games are not as much ready-made solutions to problems, but rather research vehicles to generate knowledge. This knowledge then allows others, such as game designers to be guided towards their own solutions and inspires industry towards thinking outside their comfort zone.

Kalonica Quigley and her team, who are currently working on a new health and safety game with Stefan Greuter in the Exertion Games Lab, received an “Honorable Mention” for their “Once Upon A Spacetime” PC/Mac game at the Independent Games Festival in San Francisco, USA: