News

We again have a great presence at CHI 2016 in San Jose, USA, with the following works:

Altimira, D., Mueller, F., Clarke, J., Lee, G., Billinghurst, M., Bartneck, C. Digitally Augmenting Sports: An Opportunity for Exploring and Understanding Novel Balancing Techniques. CHI 2016. Long paper. 11 pages.

Isbister, K., Mueller, F. Guidelines for the Design of Movement-Based Games and Their Relevance to HCI. Human Computer Interaction 30(3-4) 2015 journal article, presented at CHI 2016.

Mueller, F., Marshall, J.,Khot, R.A., Nylander, S., Tholander, J. Jogging at CHI. CHI 2016. SIG Special Interest Group (organizing). 4 pages

Bernhaupt, R., Mueller, F. Game User Experience Evaluation. CHI 2016. Course. 4 pages

Mueller, F., Garner, J., Pell, S.J., Raffe, W., Tamassia, M., Zamberta, F., Sargeant, B. Towards experiencing our bodies as digital play. CHI 2016. Submission to “Move to be Moved” Workshop.

Patibanda, R., Mueller, F., Leskovsek, M., Duckworth, J. BreathSenses: Towards Understanding Breathing Games.CHI 2016. Submission to the “Pervasive Play” Workshop.

Raffe, W., Zambetta, F., Tamassia, M., Mueller, F., Lee, Xiaodong, L. Reducing Perceived Waiting Time in Theme Park Queues via Multiplayer Augmented Reality. CHI 2016. Submission to the “Pervasive Play” Workshop.

Patibanda, R., Mueller, F., Leskovsek, M., Duckworth, J. BreathSenses: Towards Understanding Breathing Games. CHI 2016. Submission to the “Touch, Taste, & Smell User Interfaces: The Future of Multisensory HCI” Workshop.

Rich presents his vertigo work and Rob from the UBISS Summer School the work on HandyFeet at TEI’16 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands:

Byrne, R., Marshall, J., Mueller, F. Designing the Vertigo Experience: Vertigo as a Design Resource for Digital Bodily Play. TEI’16. ACM, 296-303

Mitchell, R., Fender, A. and Mueller, F. HandyFeet: Social Bodily Play Via Split Control of a Human Puppet’s Limbs. Work in Progress TEI’16. ACM, 506-511

Thanks to Chek’s time at the lab we have the following publication at SIGGRAPH Asia’s Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications:

Tan, C.T., Byrne, R., Lui, S., Liu, W. and Mueller, F. JoggAR: a mixed modality AR approach for technology-augmented jogging. SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, ACM, 1-1.

We have a new publication from HCI International 2015 from Florian Lachner’s visit to the lab:

Lachner, F., von Saucken, C., Mueller, F., Lindemann, U. Cross-Cultural User Experience Design Helping Product Designers to Consider Cultural Differences. In: Rau, P.L.P. ed. Cross-Cultural Design Methods, Practice and Impact, Springer International Publishing, 2015, 58-70.

CHI PLAY’15 in London will include the following works from us, incl. a Best Paper Nomination:

Hamalainen, P., Marshall, J., Kajastila, R., Byrne, R. and Mueller, F. Utilizing Gravity in Movement-Based Games and Play. CHI PLAY’15. ACM, 67-77. Best Paper Nomination

Raffe, W.L., Tamassia, M., Zambetta, F., Li, X., Pell, S.J. and Mueller, F. Player-Computer Interaction Features for Designing Digital Play Experiences across Six Degrees of Water Contact. CHI PLAY’15. ACM, 295-305

Byrne, R. Vertigo as a Design Resource for Bodily Play. CHI PLAY’15 Doctoral Consortium. ACM, 399-402

Alavesa, P., Schmidt, J., Fedosov, A., Byrne, R. and Mueller, F. Air Tandem: A Collaborative Bodily Game Exploring Interpersonal Synchronization. CHI PLAY’15 Work in Progress. ACM, 433-438

Andres, J., Lai, J.C. and Mueller, F. Guiding Young Players As Designers. CHI PLAY’15 Work in Progress. ACM, 445-450.

The Human-Computer Interaction Journal published our article together with Katherine Isbister:

Isbister, K., Mueller, F. Guidelines for the Design of Movement-Based Games and Their Relevance to HCI. Human Computer Interaction 30(3-4), 2014, 366-399.

extending our CHI 2014 paper: Mueller, F., Isbister, K. 2014. Movement-Based Game Guidelines. 30 sec preview video.

Floyd spoke about the Future of Play and his Design Jam at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Launceston as part of CUSP-Designing Into the Next Decade and Science Week with Polly McGee on ABC Tasmania:

Rohit’s project EdiPulse was on TV:

Floyd is giving a talk and runs a design jam in Launceston at the Queen Victoria Museum as part of Science Week:

In addition to the extensive media coverage Rohit received with his research, he is now also featured on the RMIT frontpage with his 3D printed chocolate work, which links to the full article: http://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2015/july/chocolate-a-sweet-treat-to-make-us-work-up-a-sweat/

Sarah Jane Pell tweeted that she is ok at Everest Basecamp, our thoughts go to everyone affected by the earthquake.

Here are our CHI’15 talks (in temporal order):

Curmi, F., Whittle, J., Ferrario, M.A., Mueller, F. Crowdsourcing Synchronous Spectator Support: (go on, go on, you’re the best)n-1. CHI 2015

Jensen, M.M., Rasmussen, M.K., Gronbaek, K., Mueller, F. Keepin’ it Real: Challenges when Designing Sports-Training Games. CHI 2015

Mueller, F., Muirhead, M. Jogging with a quadcopter. CHI 2015

Khot, R., Lee, J., Hjort, L., Aggarwal, D., Mueller, F. TastyBeats: Designing Palatable Representations of Physical Activity. CHI 2015. BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION

We are again organizing a Special Interest Group (SIG) at CHI’15 in Seoul: “Understanding Sports-HCI by Going Jogging at CHI“. In keeping with this fun theme, we will be jogging around the conference venue while we discuss interactive technology and sports. We invite you to bring your running gear with you (and any tech like jogging apps, sportswatches, your own prototype, …) and we meet on

Wednesday, 22 Apr, 16:00 in front of room 318A (where you can leave your bags) and jog from there. We have done this twice in the past and everyone involved seemed to have enjoyed this “alternative” format of a SIG while getting some exercise at CHI.

We’ll be running for approx. 30min and we have plans to accommodate those who want to jog slow/fast/further/not that long etc. All jogging levels will be catered for!

Abstract:
More and more technologies are emerging that aim to support sports activities, for example there are jogging apps, cycling computers and quadcopters for sportspeople to videorecord their actions. These new technologies appear to become more and more popular, yet interaction design knowledge how to support the associated exertion experiences is still limited. In order to bring practitioners and academics interested in sports-HCI together and examine the topic “in the wild”, we propose to go outside and jog around the CHI venue while using and discussing some of these new technologies. The goal is to investigate and shape the future of the field of sports-HCI.

PDF submission:
Understanding Sports-HCI by Going Jogging at CHI

We will be presenting 4 long papers at CHI’15 in Seoul, Korea, including an Honorable Mention for Best Paper, marking the top 5% of all papers, congratulations Rohit and team! We will also present a Work-in-Progress, an Interactivity exhibit, and a Special Interest Group:

Khot, R., Lee, J., Hjort, L., Aggarwal, D., Mueller, F. TastyBeats: Designing Palatable Representations of Physical Activity. CHI 2015. Long paper. 10 pages. BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION

Mueller, F., Muirhead, M. Jogging with a quadcopter. CHI 2015. Long paper. 10 pages.

Jensen, M.M., Rasmussen, M.K., Gronbaek, K., Mueller, F. Keepin’ it Real: Challenges when Designing Sports-Training Games. CHI 2015. Long paper. 10 pages.

Curmi, F., Whittle, J., Ferrario, M.A., Mueller, F. Crowdsourcing Synchronous Spectator Support: (go on, go on, you’re the best)n-1. CHI 2015. Long paper. 10 pages

Khot, R., Pennings, R., and Mueller, F. EdiPulse: Supporting Physical Activity with Chocolate Printed Messages. CHI 2015. Work in Progress. 6 pages.

Khot, R., Pennings, R., and Mueller, F. EdiPulse: Turning Physical Activity Into Chocolates. CHI 2015. Interactivity. 4 pages

Mueller, F., Khot, R.A., Marshall, J., Nylander, S., Tholander, J. Understanding Sports-HCI by Going Jogging at CHI. CHI 2015. SIG Special Interest Group (organizing). 4 pages

We are offering a workshop  at the 6th International UBI Summer School 2015 in Oulu, Finland, based on the excellent results from last year: Floyd and Rich are organizing a workshop on “Designing Games for the Body”:

“The annual international UBI Summer Schools provide young researchers and professionals with an opportunity to gain hands on experience and insight on selected topics on the multidisciplinary fields of ubiquitous computing and urban informatics under the tutelage of distinguished experts.”

It builds on our workshop from last year that received a perfect 5.0 score from all participants; it also resulted in 2 papers at CHI PLAY written by the students. Deadline for applications is 29 May 2015: http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/UBISS2015

Rohit received a prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship, an outstanding achievement!

The IBM PhD Fellowship is extremely competitive, and Rohit received one out of the two in Australia. The Fellowship comes with the opportunity to conduct an internship with IBM, which Rohit already started: he is working on integrating his PhD work with the research IBM is doing while teaching them about his findings. Congratulations Rohit!

Rohit and Jeewon presented their work at TEI’15 at Stanford, USA, it was a great show, congratulations! Floyd was co-chair of the technical program, introducing a best paper award to grow the community.

Khot, R., Lee, J., Hjorth, L. and Mueller, F. TastyBeats: Celebrating Heart Rate Data with a Drinkable Spectacle. TEI 2015. Long paper. 4 pages.

There are two new articles in the interactions magazine that highlight the great work that came out of the workshop at CHI last year, congratulations Mads who did an excellent job there:

Nylander, S., Tholander, J., Mueller, F., Marshall, J. HCI and Sports. Interactions. Volume 22 Issue 2, March + April 2015. 30-31.

Jensen, M.M., Rasmussen, M.K., Mueller, F., Gronbaek, K. Designing training games for soccer. Interactions. Volume 22 Issue 2, March + April 2015. 36-39.