Exertion Games Lab

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.

Our “Foundations and Trends in HCI” article is now online for download:

Mueller, F., Khot, R.A., Gerling, K. and Mandryk, R. Exertion Games. Foundations and Trends Human–Computer Interaction 10, 1 (2017), 1-86

Our Dagstuhl proposal was accepted, and we therefore will present a seminar from Sep 24-Sep 29 at Dagstuhl in Germany on the topic of Body-Centric Computing with Steve Benford, Kia Höök and Dag Svanaes.

Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller is the starting speaker at the Power of Play Symposium at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. His talk starts at 3pm on Fri, 24th of March 2017, entitled “The Power of Bodily Play”.

Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller is speaking at the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council on the topic of games and learning as part of their Learning and Development initiative on the 9 March 11.30 for 75 minutes.

Floyd gave the keynote at GameZ Zuerich, Switzerland, in Nov 2016, which is now online:

This week we have Prof. Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, visiting, he is a colleague of Prof. Eelke Folmer who spent his sabbatical with us not so long ago; welcome Sergiu! (Thanks Sarah for the picture!)

Rohit has been accepted to the Career Development Symposium at CHI’17:

Peter was selected as a Finalist for the Student Game Competition at CHI’17 and will present the game against two others in his category to compete for the top prize :

We are organizing a SIG (Special-Interest-Group) at CHI’17:

We are organizing two workshops at CHI’17:

Marco’s paper presented at ECAI (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence) has been published (acceptance rate was 27%):

Tamassia, M., Zambetta, F., Raffe, W., Mueller, F., Li, X. Dynamic Choice of State Abstraction in Q-Learning. Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), IOS Press. 46–54.

We have the following full papers accepted at CHI’17:

Our special issue in IEEE Pervasive Computing is published, Albrecht Schmidt and Floyd were the editors:

Mueller, F., and Schmidt, A. 2017. Drones Ripe for Pervasive Use. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 16 (1). 21-23.

Our “Foundations and Trends in HCI” article is published: the penultimate article on Exertion Games, at a whopping 86 pages:

Mueller, F., Khot, R.A., Gerling, K. and Mandryk, R. Exertion Games. Foundations and Trends Human–Computer Interaction 10, 1 (2016), 1-86.

Sarah and Floyd’s article is published in the interactions magazine, with a wonderful layout:

Mueller, F., Pell, S.J. Adventure and technology: an earthquake-interrupted expedition to Mt. Everest. interactions, Jan-Feb 2017, 58-62

Rohit Ashok Khot has received his graduation certificate, well done Rohit on an excellent PhD!

Khot, R.A. Understanding Material Representations of Physical Activity. 2016. RMIT University. PhD Thesis.

We have co-authored two chapters in the book “Serious Games”:

Philip Mildner and Florian Mueller. Design of Serious Games. Book chapter in: Serious Games: Foundations, Concepts and Practice, Ralf Dörner et al. Eds. Springer International Publishing, 2016, 57-82.

Josef Wiemeyer, Lennart Nacke, Christiane Moser and Florian Mueller. Player Experience. Book chapter in: Serious Games: Foundations, Concepts and Practice, Ralf Dörner et al. Eds. Springer International Publishing, 2016, 243-271.

Rich’s research on “Digital Vertigo” has now a new video around his game “Balance Ninja”, where he explores Digital Vertigo Games using Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation:

Associated paper:

Byrne, R., Marshall, J., Mueller, F. Balance Ninja: Towards the Design of Digital Vertigo Games via Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation. CHI PLAY 2016. Full paper. ACM. 159-170. Talk video. BEST PAPER HONORABLE MENTION