Summer School 2017: Playful Interactions

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Nov 10 – 14, 2017

In this five-day event, participants will learn about significant game design concepts, game mechanics, and techniques that are increasingly used in modern game development and game design research. There will be a strong focus on developing skills through practical sessions, which will give students direct experience in building and studying games and most importantly they will “learn about fun by having fun”.
The deadline for applying to this exciting summer school: 30th August 2017.
* We are keeping the call open even past the mentioned deadline but If you are coming from outside Australia and require a visa, then it would be easier for everyone if you submit your proposal/expression of interest by the deadline.
Look forward to seeing you all.
Thanks
Rohit, Floyd, Stefan and Fabio
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The Playground: Artists’ talk

Please join us to celebrate our presentation of The Playground with an artist’s talk by Dr Betty Sargeant and Justin Dwyer on Thursday 17 August 2017 at 6pm at 101 Barkly Street, Ararat.

The Playground, by Dr Betty Sargeant and Justin Dwyer with Professor Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, features a co-created sculpture, interactive projection mapping and public participation. Small sculptural pieces will be hidden around Ararat’s main street. To find a piece, the public engage in a treasure hunt, following clues on a printed map or released on social media. When they find a piece they can bring it to the exhibition space and connect it onto a sculptural frame. The Playground physically engages the public with public spaces and personalises the experience of art and technology.

You are invited to experiment with taking close-up photos of brightly coloured textures, lights and material surfaces (not faces or figurative images please!) then upload your photo/s (in landscape format) to The Playground Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ThePlaygroundArt
These photos will be projected onto The Playground sculpture in a very unexpected way.

The project is supported by Ararat Rural City Council, Creative Victoria,RMIT UniversityExertion Games Lab and First National Real Estate Ararat

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The Playground

Betty and Justin are presenting the Playground! The Playground is an interactive media art project that features a co-designed sculpture, interactive projection mapping and public participation. A prototype of The Playground was exhibited at Melbourne Knowledge Week 2017 (State Library of Victoria), where we ran a week of play, creative technologies and art activities. During Melbourne Knowledge Week sculptural pieces were hidden around the State Library of Victoria. The public was invited to find these small sculptural pieces, bring them into the Festival Hub and connect them onto a central sculpture.

The Playground‘s next exhibition will be at 101 Barkly Street, Ararat, Australia, 12-20 August, 2017. This event will feature workshops and an interactive prototype presentation

The public can also connect their small sculptural piece onto the large central sculpture. All photos that have been uploaded by the public will be projection mapped onto the central sculpture.

Through The Playground we seek to personalise audience’s experience of art and technology.

 

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Our talks at CHI 2017

Our talks at CHI’17 in Denver, CO, USA are now available online:

Khot, R., Aggarwal, D., Pennings, R., Hjorth, L. & Mueller, F. EdiPulse: Investigating a Playful Approach to Self-monitoring through 3D printed Chocolate Treats. CHI 2017. Long Paper. 15 pages.

 

Arnold, P. You Better Eat to Survive! Exploring Edible Interactions in a Virtual Reality Game. CHI 2017. Student Game Competition. 4 pages. WINNER

Mueller, F., Young, D. Five Lenses for Designing Exertion Experiences. CHI 2017. Long paper. 15 pages

Mueller, F., Khot, R.A., Gerling, K. and Mandryk, R. Exertion Games. Foundations and Trends Human–Computer Interaction 10, 1 (2017), 1-86. (presented at special Foundations and Trends session at CHI’17)

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Peter wins the CHI Student Game Competition!

Peter Arnold won the CHI Student Game Competition, category “Innovative Interface”, at CHI’17 in Denver, CO, USA! He was already a finalist, and presented his game over two days to a set of 6 international judges and thousands of conference attendees.

Acceptance rate for the competition was 39%. Congratulations Peter!

peter_judgesPeter and the judges.

 

peter_smallA happy Peter!

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You Better Eat to Survive!

This work explores edible interactions in a Virtual Reality game, highlighting how replacing sensory input in VR offers unique playful social experiences through the other senses. Results from this work can facilitate novel playful digital eating experiences and inform the teaching of what it means to eat well.

Thank you to Alex Joseski for the video work.

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Flyer at CHI’17

flyer_on_tableHere is our flyer we will be distributing at CHI’17 in Denver, CO, USA:

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Jogging at CHI’17

jogging_chi2016Coming to CHI’17?

If you are packing for CHI, here is your chance to bring your running shoes for another “Jogging at CHI” event!

As in previous years, we are again organizing a jog around the conference venue to discuss interactive technology and sports. We invite you to bring your running gear with you (and any jogging apps, sportswatches, your own prototype, …) and we meet onWednesday, 10 May, 17:50 in front of room 301

(where you can leave your bags) and jog from there. So bring your runners, either get changed at your hotel during the break before or use the toilets next to the room, we’ll leave shortly after for a run around the venue outside. We have done this four times in the past and everyone involved seemed to have enjoyed this “alternative” format of talking HCI and sports while getting some exercise at CHI.

We’ll be running for approx. 30min and we have plans to accommodate those who want to jog slower/faster/further/not that long etc. All jogging levels will be catered for! The goal is to actively shape the future of the field of sports-HCI.

Unfortunately, this year our request to make it a SIG and therefore official part of the program was rejected due to it “creating an insurance liability for ACM”. Therefore we point out that this is not an official CHI event and hope that you enjoy it regardless of ACM endorsement.

Hope to see you there,
Floyd, Rohit, Joe, Jakob & Stina
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What we will show at CHI’17

We will show the following works at CHI’17 in Denver, CO, USA:

Khot, R., Aggarwal, D., Pennings, R., Hjorth, L. & Mueller, F. EdiPulse: Investigating a Playful Approach to Self-monitoring through 3D printed Chocolate Treats. CHI 2017. Long Paper. 15 pages.

Mueller, F., Young, D. Five Lenses for Designing Exertion Experiences. CHI 2017. Long paper. 15 pages

Dolejšová, M., Kera, D., Storni, C., Khot, R.A., Clement, I.J., Kishor, P. & Pavelka, I. (2017). Digital Health and Self-experimentation. CHI 2017. Workshop (organizing). Workshop page. 8 pages.

Höök, K., Hummels, C., Isbister, K., Lim, Y., Jonsson, M., Marti, P., Márquez Segura, E., Mueller, F., Petersen, M., Sanches, P., Schiphorst, T., Ståhl, A., Svanæs, D., Trotto, A. Soma-Based Design Theory. CHI 2017. Workshop (organizing). Workshop page. 8 pages.

Khot, R., Lupton, D., Dolejšová, M., Mueller, F.  The Future of Food In the Digital Realm. CHI 2017. Special Interest Group (SIG). 4 pages.

Arnold, P. You Better Eat to Survive! Exploring Edible Interactions in a Virtual Reality Game. CHI 2017. Student Game Competition. 4 pages.

Mueller, F., Khot, R.A., Gerling, K. and Mandryk, R. Exertion Games. Foundations and Trends Human–Computer Interaction 10, 1 (2017), 1-86. (presented at special Foundations and Trends session at CHI’17)

(unofficial:) Mueller, F., Khot, R., Marshall, J., Tholander, J., Nylander, S. Jogging at CHI. CHI 2017. Jogging around the conference venue, Wed 17:50, starting outside 301.

 

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