Exertion Games Lab

Our timeslots (in order) at CHI’22 for when we will present our research are (in local (New Orleans) time and Melbourne, Australia, time):

Deng, J., Olivier, P., Andres, J., Ellis, K., Wee, R., Mueller, F. Logic Bonbon: Exploring Food as Computational Artifact. CHI 2022. Long Paper. ACM. Video. Talk video.
New Orleans time: Tue, May 3, 16:15-17:30 (pm)
Melbourne time: Wed, May 4, 7:15-8:30 am

Deng, J., Altarriba, F., Yao, L., Obrist, M., Narumi, K., Yang, H., Miyatake, M., Mueller, F. Mapping FoodHCI Futures. CHI 2022. Special Interest Group (SIG). ACM.
New Orleans time: Wed, May 4, 9:00-10:15 am
Melbourne time: Thu, May 5, 0:00-1:15 am

Semertzidis, N., Fang, Z., Lopes, P., Kunze, K., Pangaro, P., Mueller, F., Maes, P. What We Talk About When We Talk About Human-Computer Integration. Panel (organizing). ACM.
New Orleans time: Wed, May 4, 14:15-15:30 (pm)
Melbourne time: Thu, May 5, 5:15-6:30 am

Dickinson, R., Semertzidis, N., Mueller, F. Machine In The Middle: Exploring Dark Patterns of Emotional Human-Computer Integration Through Media Art. CHI 2022. Case Study. ACM. Video. Talk video. HONORABLE CASE STUDY.
New Orleans time: Wed, May 4, 16:15-17:30 (pm)
Melbourne time: Thu, May 5, 7:15-8:30 am

Clashing, C., Montoya, M., Smith, I., Marshall, J., Opperman, L., Dietz, P., Blythe, M., Bateman, S., Pell, S., Ananthanarayan, S., Mueller, F. Splash! Identifying the Grand Challenges for WaterHCI. CHI 2022. Workshop (organizing). ACM.
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We will be presenting the following publications at CHI 2022:

Deng, J., Olivier, P., Andres, J., Ellis, K., Wee, R., Mueller, F. Logic Bonbon: Exploring Food as Computational Artifact. CHI 2022. Long Paper. ACM. Video. Talk video.

Dickinson, R., Semertzidis, N., Mueller, F. Machine In The Middle: Exploring Dark Patterns of Emotional Human-Computer Integration Through Media Art. CHI 2022. Case Study. ACM. Video. Talk video. HONORABLE CASE STUDY.

Clashing, C., Montoya, M., Smith, I., Marshall, J., Opperman, L., Dietz, P., Blythe, M., Bateman, S., Pell, S., Ananthanarayan, S., Mueller, F. Splash! Identifying the Grand Challenges for WaterHCI. CHI 2022. Workshop (organizing). ACM.

Deng, J., Altarriba, F., Yao, L., Obrist, M., Narumi, K., Yang, H., Miyatake, M., Mueller, F. Mapping FoodHCI Futures. CHI 2022. Special Interest Group (SIG). ACM.

Semertzidis, N., Fang, Z., Lopes, P., Kunze, K., Pangaro, P., Mueller, F., Maes, P. What We Talk About When We Talk About Human-Computer Integration. Panel (organizing). ACM.

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Our IMWUT/Ubicomp paper on playful beverage-based human-food interactions is now published in the “Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies” journal, to be presented at the “Ubiquitous Computing” conference:

Wang, Y., Li, Z., Khot, R., Mueller, F. Toward Understanding Playful Beverage-based Gustosonic Experiences. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT/Ubicomp). Volume 6. Issue 1. March 2022. Article No.: 33. pp 1–23

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Christal is giving a talk at WaterHCI, exploring the intersection between water, humans, and technology, on “Designing for Interactive Aquatic Recreation”, live streamed on Thu, 1 Apr, 9am Melbourne, Australia, time.

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We are looking for an HCI/Games/Play lecturer. Lecturers in Australia are ongoing positions, like having tenure in other countries, and are targeted for a career path after a PhD towards becoming a professor. The equivalent in other countries is that of an assistant/associate professor, but we also consider more experienced academics (senior lecturer). Please contact us if you have any questions, a website portfolio of designed systems and publications at CHI, CHI PLAY, etc. really helps. (Monash is 10th place of all institutions worldwide in terms of full papers at CHI’22). Details are here.

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Just presented at the Augmented Humans 2022 conference:

Danry, V., Pataranutaporn, P., Mueller, F., Maes, P., Leigh, S. On Eliciting a Sense of Self when Integrating with Computers. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans 2022 Conference (AH’22). Full paper. ACM. 1-14. Talk video.

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Interested in the coming together of water and human-computer interaction (HCI)? Then join us at CHI 2022, to our online workshop on waterHCI, deadline to apply 4 March 2022 AoE:

waterhci.exertiongameslab.org

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Floyd will be giving a talk “Towards beginning to understand WaterHCI” as part of the DECONference 2021 on Fri, 10 Dec, 9.40am Melbourne, Australia time.

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Our publications at CHI PLAY 2021:

Patibanda, R., Li, X., Chen, Y., Saini, A., Hill, C., Hoven, E., Mueller, F. Actuating Myself: Designing Hand-Games Incorporating Electrical Muscle Stimulation. CHI PLAY 2021. Work-in-Progress. ACM. 228-235.

Fang, X., Semertzidis, N., Scary, M., Wang, X., Andres, J., Zambetta, F., Mueller, F. Telepathic Play: Towards Playful Experiences Based on Brain-to-brain Interfacing. CHI PLAY 2021. Work-in-Progress. ACM. 268-273.

Li., X., Tang, X., Tong, X., Patibanda, R., Mueller, F., Liang, H. Myopic Bike and Say Hi: Games for Empathizing with The Myopic. CHI PLAY 2021. Student Game Competition. ACM. 333-338.

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Today, 26 Oct 2021, Floyd receives the Tall Poppy Award: The award was “created in 1998 by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) to recognise and celebrate Australian intellectual and scientific excellence”. “Cutting down the tall poppy” is a cultural term in Australia to describe those who deliberately put down another for their success and achievements, due to one’s own insecurities. To address this, the Tall Poppy Award aims to “encourage younger Australians to follow in the footsteps of our outstanding achievers […] aiming towards building a more publicly engaged scientific leadership in Australia.”

The livestream is on at 6pm, Melbourne time.

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Our interactions article on “ingestible play” is now printed! Looks great in hardcopy!

Li, Z., Wang, Y., Greuter, S., Mueller, F. Playing with the interior body. interactions. Volume 28, Number 5 (2021). ACM. 44-49.

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Our two Dagstuhl seminar proposals have been accepted, and we will hence co-organize 2 Dagstuhl seminars in 2022. “Dagstuhl supports computer science by organizing high ranked seminars on hot topics in informatics” (Wikipedia):

Eat-IT: Interactive Food

Cognitive Augmentation

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Zhuying’s article on “Playing with the interior body” in “interactions” has now been published and is online:

Li, Z., Wang, Y., Greuter, S., Mueller, F. Playing with the interior body. interactions. Volume 28, Number 5 (2021). ACM. 44-49.

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Nathan is interviewed in the “Future Thinking” podcast with artist Rod Dickinson (UK), talking about their collaborative artwork Machine_In_The_Middle:

https://futurethinking.buzzsprout.com/1764411/9252241

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Zhuying has received her PhD, congratulations!

Her dissertation is called: Understanding the Design of Ingestible Play

Abstract: Digital games that engage people with their bodies can not only facilitate health and wellbeing, but also help players get to know their bodies better. However, how games can engage people with the inside of their body, such as their intestines, is relatively unknown. This thesis introduces ingestible sensors – sensors that can be swallowed – to design “ingestible play” and presents a framework to guide designers when creating games that engage people with their interior body. This work advances human-computer interaction research by including the interior body, contributing to a more playful and humanised technology future.

The PDF is available here and also in a higher-res version in the Monash dissertation repository.

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We will present the following at Ubicomp 2021:

Wang, Y., Li, Z., Khot, R., Mueller, F. Sonic Straws: A beverage-based playful gustosonic system. Ubicomp 2021. Poster. ACM. 2 pages.

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Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller was invited to speak about human-computer integration at the Assistive Augmentation Symposium at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, on 24 Sep 2021. The 1-day event celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Augmented Human Lab. Register to attend here.

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Nathan collaborated with UK artist Rod Dickinson and will present the result as part of the event “Decoding Humans” “The Quantification of Emotions” on Thursday morning, 2:00am – 3:00am (essentially Wednesday night), Melbourne time. This is part of the Downloadable Brain series, a series of artistic presentations published by Cognitive Sensations exploring the relationship between technology and the brain. 

The work is called “Machine_in_the_middle”, a play on the idea of a “man-in-the-middle” attack, in which the emotions of the victim are extracted via a brain-computer interface (BCI) and animated onto their face through electrical muscle stimulation for all to see. 

Registration is free: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decoding-humans-the-quantification-of-emotions-tickets-150390147981

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Here are the times of the various presentations, workshops, events, special interest groups, etc. we are involved in at CHI’21, (Melbourne time):

Tue, May 11 09:00 – 11:00 & Tue, May 11 17:00 – 19:00

Mueller, F., Patibanda, R., Byrne, R., Li, Z., Wang, Y., Andres, J., Li, X., Marquez, J., Greuter, S., Duckworth, J., Marshall, J. Limited control over the body as intriguing play design resource. CHI 2021. Long paper. ACM

Wed, May 12 09:00 – 11:00 & Wed, May 12 17:00 – 19:00

Mueller, F., Khot, R. Dwyer, T., Goodwin, S., Marriott, K. Deng, J., Phan, H., Lin, J., Chen, K., Wang, Y. Data as delight: eating data. CHI 2021. Long paper. ACM

Tue, May 11 09:00 – 11:00 & Tue, May 11 17:00 – 19:00

Strengers, Y., Sadowski, J., Li, Z., Shimshak, A., Mueller, F. What can HCI learn from sexual consent? A Feminist Process of Embodied Consent for Interactions with Emerging Technologies. CHI 2021. Long paper. ACM

Wed, May 12 09:00 – 11:00 & Wed, May 12 17:00 – 19:00

Khot, R. A., Hjorth, L., Mueller, F. Shelfie: A Framework for Designing Material Representations of Physical Activity Data. TOCHI. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions, Vol. 27, No. 3, Article 14, May 2020. 1-52. Presented at CHI 2021. ACM.

Wed, May 12 17:00 – 19:00 & Thu, May 13 01:00 – 03:00

Byrne, R., Marshall, J., Mueller, F. Designing Digital Vertigo Experiences. TOCHI. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions, Vol. 27, No. 3, Article 19, May 2020. 1-30. Presented at CHI 2021. ACM.

Tue, May 11 11:00 – 13:00 & Tue, May 11 19:00 – 21:00

Deng, J., Olivier, P., Mueller, F. Design of Cyber Food: Beginning to Understand Food as Computational Artifact. CHI 2021. Late-breaking work. ACM.

Mon, May 10 11:00 – 13:00 & Mon, May 10 19:00 – 21:00

Li, X., Chen, Y., Patibanda, R., Mueller, F. vrCAPTCHA: Exploring CAPTCHA Designs in Virtual Reality. CHI 2021. Interactivity. ACM

Wed, May 12 19:00 – 21:00

Semertzidis, N., Scary, M., Fang, X., Wang, X., Patibanda, R., Andres, J., Strohmeier, P., Kunze, K., Lopes, P., Zambetta, F., Mueller, F. SIGHInt: Special Interest Group for Human-Computer Integration. CHI 2021. Special Interest Group (SIG). ACM

Tue, May 11 09:00 – 11:00 & Wed, May 12 01:00 – 03:00

Peng, V. Wigglears: Wiggle your ears with your emotions. CHI 2021. Student Game Competition. ACM

Tue, May 11 09:00 – 11:00 & Wed, May 12 01:00 – 03:00

Silvester, T. Playing with Drones: Towards understanding the design of drone-based pervasive play. CHI 2021. Student Game Competition. ACM

Sat, May 8 23:00 – 03:00 ⁺¹

Deng, J., Wang, Y., Velasco, C., Bertran, F., Comber, R., Obrist, M., Isbister, K., Spence, C., Mueller, F. The Future of Human-Food Interaction. CHI 2021. Workshop (organizing). ACM

Sun, May 16 07:00 – 11:00

Danry, V., Pataranutaporn, P., Horowitz, A., Strohmeier, P., Andres, J., Patibanda, R., Li, Z., Semertzidis, N., Nakamura, T., Nishida, J., Lopes, P., Leon, F., Won, A., Svanaes, D., Mueller, F., Maes, P., Leigh, S. Do Cyborgs dream of Electric Limbs? Experiential Factors in Human-Computer Integration Design and Evaluation. CHI 2021. Workshop (organizing). ACM

Fri, May 7 14:00 – 18:00 (part 1) & Sat, May 8 14:00 – 18:00 (part 2)

van Rheden, V., Grah, T., Meschtscherjakov, A., Patibanda, R., Liu, W., Daiber, F., van den Hoven, E., Mueller, F. Out of Your Mind!? Embodied Interaction in Sports. CHI 2021. Workshop (organizing). ACM

Wed, May 12 14:00 – 15:00

Mueller, F. Student Volunteer Pick-a-brain session

Tue, May 11 01:00 – 03:00

Andres, J., SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award: Designing Human–Computer Integration in an Exertion Context

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