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Our long paper presentations at CHI’19 are now online:

Li, Z., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Chen, W., Hoang, T., Greuter, S., Mueller, F. HeatCraft: Designing Playful Experiences with Ingestible Sensors via Localized Thermal Stimuli. CHI 2019. Long paper. ACM. Video. Talk video.

Semertzidis, N., Sargeant, B., Dwyer, J., Mueller, F., Zambetta, F. Towards Understanding the Design of Positive Pre-sleep Through a Neurofeedback Artistic Experience. CHI 2019. Long paper. ACM. Video. Talk video.

Mueller, F., Li, Z., Byrne, R., Mehta, Y., Arnold, P., Kari, T. A 2nd Person Social Perspective on Bodily Play. CHI 2019. Long paper. ACM. Talk video.

Congratulations Daniel Prohasky together with Travis Gemmill and Marcus Cher from the lab for winning the Veski Fast Smarts Innovator of the Year 2019 Award! Big achievement after Betty and Justin’s success last year at the same event. Congratulations to the team!

We will be presenting the following works at CHI’19 in Glasgow, UK:

Li, Z., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Chen, W., Hoang, T., Greuter, S., Mueller, F. HeatCraft: Designing Playful Experiences with Ingestible Sensors via Localized Thermal Stimuli. CHI 2019. Long paper. ACM. Video.

Semertzidis, N., Sargeant, B., Dwyer, J., Mueller, F., Zambetta, F. Towards Understanding the Design of Positive Pre-sleep Through a Neurofeedback Artistic Experience. CHI 2019. Long paper. ACM. Video.

Mueller, F., Li, Z., Byrne, R., Mehta, Y., Arnold, P., Kari, T. A 2nd Person Social Perspective on Bodily Play. CHI 2019. Long paper. ACM.

Marshall, J., Benford, S., Byrne, R., Tennent, P. Sensory Alignment in Immersive Entertainment. CHI 2019. Long paper. ACM.

La Delfa, J., Wichtowski, O., Baytas, M., Khot, R., Mueller, F. Are Drones Meditative? CHI 2019. Interactivity. ACM. Video.

Wang, Y., Li, Z., Jarvis, B., Khot, R., Mueller, F. iScream!: Towards the Design of Playful Gustosonic Experiences with Ice Cream. CHI 2019. Interactivity. ACM. Video.

Khot, R., Arza, E., Kurra, H. and Wang, Y. FoBo: Towards Designing a Robotic Companion for Solo Dining. CHI 2019. Late-Breaking Work. ACM.

Andres, J., Schraefel, m.c., Tabor, A., Hekler, E. The Body as Starting Point: Applying Inside Body Knowledge for Inbodied Design. CHI 2019. Workshop (organizing). ACM.

Dear CHI attendees,

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 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, your own prototype, …) and we meet on

Tuesday, 7 May, 17:30 after the last paper session of the day (called “Sport and Fitness”) outside room “Carron 1”

and jog from there. So bring your runners, either get changed at your hotel or use the toilets, we’ll leave swiftly for a run around the venue outside. We have done this six times in the past and everyone involved seemed to have enjoyed this “alternative” format of discussing 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.

Hope to see you there,
Floyd, Rohit, Joe, Jakob, Stina, Josh, Rakesh, Florian

Here is our flyer for CHI’19 in Glasgow, UK:

Maddison with her laser-cut lettuce plates on the front page of the School:

https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2019/march/lettuce-eat-war-on-waste

We have a new video of “HeatCraft”, a novel system using ingestible sensors to facilitate playful bodily experiences via localized thermal stimuli:

Maddison Ryder with her work on biodegradable plates made out of lettuce waste, with help from Marcus Cher, has won the “Victorian Design Challenge” in the Tertiary category at the National Gallery of Victoria, congratulations Maddy and Marcus!

Maddison Ryder with support of Marcus Cher has invented eating plates made out of lettuce waste, so they are biodegradable!
Interview with Maddison on national TV news.

Our Dagstuhl report on Human-Computer Integration is now online, we co-organized a Dagstuhl week-long seminar with the experts in the field to lay out the future of how computers and humans integrate together.

Here is our article on the Guts Game in the New Scientist, highlighting our new concept of ingestible games.

Our article 10 Lenses to Design Sports-HCI in Foundations and Trends in Human–Computer Interaction is now online:
Volume 12, Issue 3: https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/HCI-076
It is free today, so get it while you can!

Mueller, F., Young, D. 10 Lenses to Design Sports-HCI. Foundations and Trends in Human–Computer Interaction 12, 3 (2018), 172-237.

Josh is co-organizing a workshop at CHI’19 in Glasgow, UK:

The Body as Starting Point:

Applying Inside Body Knowledge for Inbodied Design – Sunday, May 5 at CHI 2019, Glasgow, UK

Inbodied design is an emerging area in HCI, focusing on using knowledge of the body’s internal systems and processes to inform em-bodied and circum-bodied design. This hands-on, cross-domain workshop will enable participants to take the body as a starting point to create novel and beneficial experiences for the human body.

Imagine how we might:

use sleep to help us improve spatial navigation – tuning an internal GPS
use movement and eating to be more creative – building the gut-brain axis
use social endocrinology to help introverts & extraverts get along right away
build gut-feeling sensitivity to improve decision-making
use temperature to improve memory
Think about cycles of use to use technology to get off technology for self-health maintenance?

What would interactive systems that foster these approaches look like?

To address these kinds of questions, it really helps to know a few things about how we work under our integumentary system, as the physio-neuro-electro-chemical social systems we are.

Come to this workshop to contribute your knowledge, build new ideas and skills, and use this workshop to explore,  practice and build this new area of HCI, when we take the body as a starting point.

1 day workshop – short position papers due feb 21

https://bodyasstartingpoint.tumblr.com/

We look forward to seeing you.

Josh Andres – IBM Research & Exertion Games Lab RMIT.
m.c. schraefel – WellthLab University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Aaron Tabor – HCI Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering. University of New Brunswick
Eric B. Hekler – CWPHS, Design Lab, QI & FMPH, University of California, San Diego

Inter-dream, the interactive VR dream work by Betty and Justin together with Nathan is now a finalist in the Contemporary Arts Awards 2019!

https://www.contemporaryartawards.com/product-page/plugin-human-inter-dream

Richard “Rich” Byrne graduated today, with an excellent PhD, no amendments required, congratulations Rich!

His PhD thesis:

Byrne, R. Designing digital vertigo experiences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), RMIT University. 2018.

The Guts Game also received media attention:

A computer game’s edible controller lets you play it with your gut. New Scientist.

Forget joysticks — the Guts Game is controlled by a sensor that you swallow. Digital Trends.

An edible controller moves gaming from the screen to your gut. Futurism.

The Bizarre New Game You Play By Swallowing A Sensor. Forbes.

This New Game Has an Edible Controller. Bloomberg.

So many media outlets have reported on Arm-A-Dine in the last couple of days:

Our CHI PLAY 2018 talks are now online:

Here is our flyer for CHI PLAY’18:

We presented our work at CHI PLAY’18 in Melbourne, Australia: