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Chad’s paper on Designing Digital Games for Trams as well as his Doctoral Consortium paper Understanding Digital Play in Moving Spaces have been presented and published at FDG 2013 (Foundations of Digital Games) in Chania, Crete, Greece.

Toprak, C., Platt, J., Ho, H., Mueller, F. 2013. Cart-Load-O-Fun: Designing Digital Games for Trams. FDG 2013. 8 pages.

Toprak, C. 2013. Understanding Digital Play in Moving Spaces. FDG 2013. Doctoral Consortium. 3 pages.

Sebastiaan received an Honourable Mention from CHI 2013 for his skateboarding work, which celebrates that his “4 Design Themes for Skateboarding” is in the top 5% of all submissions at the premier conference in human-computer interaction worldwide. Congratulations!

Here is Sebastiaan’s excellent talk about “4 Design Themes for Skateboarding” at CHI2013, including a skateboarding trick on stage!

The Exertion Games Lab’s Tom Penney will present a talk about the lab’s work at the RMIT Convergence exhibit on Sat, 4th May, 1-2pm, Level 4, in the Design Hub. Ruth, Helmut, Robert and Chris will also show Dr. Giggles, Hanging off a Bar and Musical Embrace right after the talk and throughout the day from 10-6pm.

CHI 2013, the premier conference in human-computer interaction, with the featured community “Games” this year, is coming up, and we are going with a large group to make a splash and have impact: 10 members of the Exertion Games Lab will be presenting 16 submissions!

We are running a Game Jam as well as a Special Interest Group on Sports and HCI, demonstrate 5 of our games and also have a best paper nomination. Everyone ...

We are organizing a Special Interest Group at CHI in Paris: “HCI and Sports”. In keeping with this fun theme, we will be jogging around the conference venue while we discuss interactive technology and sport. We invite you to bring your running gear with you (and any tech like Nike+, Runkeeper, your own prototype, …) and we meet on

Tuesday, 30 Apr, 16:00 in front of room 361.

We’ll be running for approx. 30min and all jogging levels will be catered for!

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15 submissions from the Exertion Games Lab have been accepted for CHI 2013 to be held in Paris, France. David’s work from HitLab NZ that he did in collaboration with us also got accepted, so that makes it 16 submissions overall. This means we go over there with a big group, showing many of our games, and planning on having a big impact on the international research community ...

Chad’s submission to the Doctoral Consortium has (in addition to his full paper) also been accepted to FDG 2013 (Foundations of Digital Games) in Chania, Crete, Greece.

Chad’s full paper on Designing Digital Games for Trams has been accepted to FDG 2013 (Foundations of Digital Games) in Chania, Crete, Greece. Congratulations!

The Exertion Games Lab was on TV again, this time with Wouter’s LumaHelm, watch the segment below:

Our paper on technology for skateboarding received a Honourable Mention for Best Paper at the ACM SIGCHI conference in Paris, France, placing it in the top 5% of all papers!

Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller will be on the ABC Radio News show tonight, talking not about games for a change, but about how to design for users’ desires within the context of human-computer interaction in response to the latest debate on the CFA FireReady mobile app.

Rohit’s PhD research has been accepted (acceptance rate 37%) to be presented at the Student Research Competition at CHI 2013 in Paris, France. He receives a travel grant and the chance to present his research on using 3D printers to make physical activity more engaging through personalised souvenirs. Being a finalist means he gets the chance to win prize money as well as entry into the ACM competition. Congrats Rohit!

Our interactive skateboarding system Copy, Paste, Skate was on Channel 10′s Scope program today!

We just had 4 more publications accepted, congrats everyone involved! PDFs at the links below, some even come with a video:

• Pijnappel, S. Mueller, F. 2013. 4 Design Themes for Skateboarding. CHI 2013. Note. 4 pages. 30 sec preview video.
• Chatham, A., Mueller, F., Bernhaupt, R., Khot, R., Pijnappel, S., Toprak, C., Deen, M., Schouten, B. Game Jam. CHI 2013. Workshop (organizing). 3 pages.
• Mueller, F., Chatham, A., Toprak, C., Khot, R., Pijnappel, S., Marshall, ...
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Sarah’s “Inside Running: The Sport of Art” starts 1 Feb 2013 in Perth, opened by Fremantle Football Club Captain Matthew Pavlich!

LumaHelm has been featured in the press again, this time in The Quintessence‘s special issue on LED technology: click on the image to read the article.

Sebastiaan’s Copy, Paste, Skate project that examines interactive technology for skateboarders is on the front page of the IT section of The Australian newspaper, with a very nice picture of Sebastiaan doing a trick using his system that offers visual, auditory and haptic feedback.

On Wed, 21st Nov, 4.30-5.30pm we will show: