Exertion Games Lab’s great success at CHI 2014 in Toronto, Canada

Exertion Games Lab at CHI2014The Exertion Games Lab had great success at CHI 2014, the premier conference in human-computer interaction: 10 Exertion Games Lab’ers presented in total 21 accepted submissions, including 4 full papers. CHI is the premier conference in human-computer interaction and attracted well over 3000 participants. The members of the Exertion Games Lab represented Australia’s largest group at the conference by far and had significant impact across all major venues, in particular highlights are: Rohit who presented his PhD research to a massive audience in the paper track but also in interactivity with Jeewon (and became a finalist in the videoshowcase), Jayden who presented his Honours work and became a finalist in the Student Game Competition, Betty who got keynote speaker Margaret Atwood to try out at Interactivity (and tweet about) her research on children’s book apps, Robert and Will who demonstrated with our support-crew Eric and Taylor CHI’s first BMX stunt-show showcasing Wouter’s LumaHelm (Wouter unfortunately could not attend, so thanks Robert and Will for helping Wouter out), Robert organized a workshop and Rich, Chad and Josh contributed to the GameJam4Research and presented their research in HCI and Sports. Well done everyone!

All papers can be seen here.

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