Exertion Games Lab

Two more publications from FDG2013

floydmueller — Sat, 18 May 2013 06:57:53 +0000

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.

Honourable Mention from CHI for Sebastiaan’s skateboarding work!

floydmueller — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:52:48 +0000

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!

Skateboarding talk

floydmueller — Sun, 05 May 2013 10:42:19 +0000

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

Convergence exhibit

floydmueller — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:45:47 +0000

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.

10 Exertion Games Lab’ers presenting at CHI2013!

floydmueller — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:48:09 +0000

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 is on the plane to Paris now or already there! We are also having a networking party on Tuesday night with RWTH Aachen to celebrate our success, if you are around, find us at Interactivity and we give you the details!

Paris here we come!

SIG: HCI with Sports at CHI2013 Tuesday evening: Bring your runners!

floydmueller — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:18:44 +0000

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!

Abstract:
Recent advances in cheap sensor technology has made technology support for sports and physical exercise increasingly commonplace, which is evident from the growing popularity of heart rate monitors and GPS sports watches. This rise of technology to support sports activities raises many interaction issues, such as how to interact with these devices while moving and physically exerting. This special interest group brings together industry practitioners and researchers who are interested in designing and understanding human-computer interaction where the human is being physically active, engaging in exertion activities. Fitting with the theme, this special interest group will be “run” while running: participants will be invited to a jog together during which we will discuss technology interaction that is specific to being physically active whilst being physically active ourselves.

PDF submission:
HCI with Sports

30sec preview video:

15 submissions accepted for CHI 2013

floydmueller — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:10:23 +0000

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 about the work we are doing in the lab! Congrats to everyone!

All references, PDFs and research videos on our publications page.

Chad accepted to the Doctoral Consortium at FDG

floydmueller — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:18:33 +0000

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 paper accepted to FDG!

floydmueller — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:40:32 +0000

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!

LumaHelm on Channel 10 TV

floydmueller — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:20:34 +0000

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

Honourable Mention Best Paper

floydmueller — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:29:49 +0000

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 on ABC Radio

floydmueller — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:37:04 +0000

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 to be presented at CHI’s Student Research Competition

floydmueller — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:28:11 +0000

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!

Copy, Paste, Skate on TV!

floydmueller — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:37:31 +0000

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

4 new publications from the Exertion Games Lab

floydmueller — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:21:02 +0000

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, J. HCI with Sports. CHI 2013. Special Interest Group (organizing). 4 pages. 30 sec preview video.
Sancho Huerga, R., Lade, J., Mueller, F. Three Themes for Designing Games that Aim to Promote a Positive Body Perception in Hospitalized Children. Persuasive 2013. Short paper. 6 pages.

Sarah’s “Inside Running: The Sport of Art” in Perth

floydmueller — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:11:32 +0000

Sarah’s “Inside Running: The Sport of Art” starts 1 Feb 2013 in Perth, opened by Fremantle Football Club Captain Matthew Pavlich!

LumaHelm in the press again

floydmueller — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:47:51 +0000

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.

Our skateboarding project on Australian IT frontpage

floydmueller — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:33:26 +0000

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.

“Playmakers” film screening with Ivo Gormley: Wed, 21st, 4.30pm

floydmueller — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:30:43 +0000

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

“Playmakers” a film about Pervasive Games by Ivo Gormley (UK), who is visiting us and will be available for questions:

‘Playmakers’ – free film screening at RMIT
Design Hub, Bldg. 100, Cnr. Victoria and Swanston Sts, RMIT, 4th Floor

4.30pm
This is a free public screening of this 30min documentary about new forms of play in public space.About the film:
Playmakers is a groundbreaking documentary the about the emerging phenomenon of Pervasive games. Over the last 50 years play has become an increasingly private activity. Now it is bursting back onto our streets.

The film features those at the forefront of the pervasive games movement, it includes games designers such as Blast Theory’s Matt Adams, Atari’s Paulina Bozek and Claire Reddington from the Pervasive Media Studio alongside technology heavyweights such as Howard Rheingold and anthropologist Mike Wesch.

Existing on the boundaries of art, games design, theatre and technology pervasive games take many forms – creep through the streets at night tracking down your enemies, hide stashes of treasure, report on the shoddy practices of rival news teams or collapse with laughter with a surrealist version of trivial pursuit. The film explores the implications of reclaiming play into the public domain and shows the possibilities offered by new technologies.

Come check out the Game Arcade at Games for Change

floydmueller — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:21:17 +0000

Chad put together a great Game Arcade at Games for Change Australia-New Zealand at RMIT’s Design Hub, come check it out if you are around in Melbourne today and tomorrow!