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Channel 10 were in the Exertion Games Lab again, having just visited last week and filming our interactive skateboarding rig, this time they shot the LumaHelm, our illuminated helmet. The results were great shots around the Design Hub, including Chad riding his bike safely as he used the LumaHelm to indicate. The picture shows Sebastiaan explaining the technology.

Wouter’s LumaHelm receives Bronze at the prestigious Spark Design Awards! The Spark Design Awards is the “world’s first multi-level design competition” with a “mission to promote better living through better design”, sponsored by Autodesk and others.

Here is the LumaHelm on the Spark Design website, including nice pictures of Wouter and the LumaHelm.

Today, Channel 10 was visiting again, this time to shoot our latest project, Sebastiaan’s interactive skateboarding obstacle system called “Copy, Paste, Skate“. It offers visual, audio, and haptic feedback to extend and re-live the skateboarding experience of succeeding at a trick. This research helps us understand how interactive technology can support a sense of achievement, called Fiero in games.

Dan Murphy did a great new video about Lumahelm:

The Exertion Games Lab has been featured under the heading “Game of Life” in RMIT’s Founder’s Day Magazine  that gets distributed yearly with the Financial Review, see page 17 in the PDF version or read the online article.

3-year PhD openings in the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Application deadline: 31 October 2012

The Exertion Games Lab (exertiongameslab.org) at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in Melbourne, Australia, is seeking exceptional PhD candidates to research the future of exertion games and play.

The Exertion Games Lab is looking for exceptional candidates who value an
interdisciplinary perspective, are highly motivated, willing to learn
a variety of skills, are extremely creative as well as technical, and also have highly developed ...

Exertion Game Lab’s Joggobot was featured on Channel 10′s Scope TV program, presented by Chad Toprak with jogging support from Josh Platt.

The Exertion Games Lab received two more awards: Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller received a Certificate of Recognition for being RMIT’s Top Media Performers for 2012, and the entire team received the Media Star of the Year award in the category Research Team.

We have moved into our new home, the brilliant Design Hub, RMIT’s flagship building for everything about design research! It is grand, open, collaborative and perfect for our research on games. Here are some first pictures; the space looks empty here, but we are already filling almost all of it with our gaming gear. The address is RMIT Building no. 100 (!), Level 4, corner of Swanston St and Victoria St, only 40 meters from the old location. We welcome ...

Wouter secured a 1000 Euro win for Joggobot at the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2012 at the International Digital Media and Business Festival in Tampere, Finland! Well done Wouter and everyone else who was involved!

We’re proud to announce that the Exertion Games Lab will be at Freeplay again this year! This time we’ll be exhibiting Hanging Off A Bar to Freeplay attendees in the Arcade and Expo section of the festival! Meanwhile, Danielle will be talking about Games and Movement, Ruth will be giving a talk on Games and Theatre, and Harry will be talking in two panels and also ...

Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller from the Exertion Games Lab has been invited to talk at GameDays 2012 co-hosting Edutainment 2012 within the context of Where Science Meets Business on 19 Sept 2012, in Darmstadt, Germany, hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute and the University of Darmstadt, Multimedia Communications Lab.

We’re proud to announce that Chad and Floyd from the lab will be holding a workshop on Play in Unconventional Spaces in November as part of the ACM conference OzCHI 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. We are now doing a call for participation! Please feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues!

ABSTRACT
Playful activities generally occur in defined play spaces. In particular, digital play has traditionally been confined to arcades and living rooms. ...

Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller is presenting an invited talk an “How Sports and Computer Games Meet” at Sportsinformatik 2012 at the University of Konstanz, Germany, at 13 Sept 2012, from 9-10am.

The Exertion Games Lab won both the Student Games Design Competition Award as well as the Audience Award at the ACM supported research conference “Fun and Games” 2012 in France! Chad Toprak and Josh Platt won the Student Games Competition Award with Bubble Popper, and Chet De Mel, Amy Huggard and Jayden Garner won the Audience Award with Musical Embrace. The latter win is ...

The Exertion Game Lab’s Joggobot will be featured on Channel 10′s Scope program

The Exertion Games Lab’s Joggobot wins the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award 2012!

There are only 3 winners, who share the prize money, and we are getting invited to attend the award ceremony in Finland in October. The award is sponsored by Nokia and quite prestigious in the Ubicomp world, this is what they say about themselves:

“The 6th Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards competition, NUMA2012, seeks for novel ways to combine ubiquitous ...