Our own Harry Lee is in the latest issue of the Qantas Inflight magazine, Danielle found him while on the way to the US presenting her work at CHI’12!
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We will be having another paper editing session:
Thursday, 26 April, 11.45-12.45 in the Exertion Games Lab.
We will be focusing on Related Work: if you have a Related Work section of one of your papers you would like to get feedback on, please print out ca. 6 copies, double-spaced, and bring them along. We will then edit each others’ papers, to make them even greater! Everyone welcome.
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Ruth Huerga will be giving a talk about her prior work on
Tuesday, 24 April, 1-2pm in the Exertion Games Lab.
Ruth Huerga is doing a Masters at RMIT and spends a lot of time in the lab as she brings in expertise in interactive storytelling and embodied poetry, currently working on a project with children in hospital.
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Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller is giving a guest lecture in the Research and Practice lecture series organised by Chris Barker on Thu, 12 Apr 2012, at RMIT in Bldg. 13, Room 1, from 5.30-6.30pm. Floyd will be talking about how the Exertion Games Lab’s games are not as much ready-made solutions to problems, but rather research vehicles to generate knowledge. This knowledge then allows others, such as game designers to be guided towards their own solutions and inspires industry towards thinking outside their comfort zone.
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Kalonica Quigley and her team, who are currently working on a new health and safety game with Stefan Greuter in the Exertion Games Lab, received an “Honorable Mention” for their “Once Upon A Spacetime” PC/Mac game at the Independent Games Festival in San Francisco, USA:
‘2012 Independent Games Festival Announces Student Showcase Winners’
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We will be having another abstract editing session!
Wednesday, 11 April, 12.30-1.30 in the Exertion Games Lab.
If you have an abstract you’d like to get feedback on, please print out ca. 6 copies, double-spaced, and bring them along. We will then edit each others’ abstracts, to make them even greater! Everyone welcome.
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Games & Play Reading Group meets will now be held on Fridays 12:30-1:30pm every week.
HOWEVER, since this Friday is Good Friday, RMIT will be closed. Only for this week we will be holding the meet on Thursday 12:30-1:30pm.
Please find below details for our upcoming meet:
Douglas Wilson – “Now It’s Personal: On Abusive Game Design” – FuturePlay 2010.
Date: Thursday 5th April, 12:30-1:30pm
Yummy vegetarian sandwiches from Pearson & Murphy’s provided.
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On Wednesday, 4 April 2012, Wouter will be giving a little talk about what he learnt from writing a full paper. He will pass on knowledge from others, which he “wilfully ignored in my own process but now wholeheartedly support”, as well as share his own lessons.
Feel free to bring your own sandwich, sushi roll or lunch salad. (Good) coffee + tea will be provided.
Also feel free to bring in personal questions and challenges around paper writing that you’d like to discuss.
The facts:
Where: Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University, Building 9, level 1, room 27
When: Wednesday, 4-4-2012, 1pm–2pm
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This week’s Reading Group takes place on Thursday, 29 March 2012, at a new time-slot: 12.30-1.30. Rhys will be leading the discussion on the CHI paper “Practical, Appropriate, Empirically-Validated
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On Wednesday (4-Apr-2012) Wouter from our lab will be giving a little talk about his learnings from writing a full paper with very little training in paper writing.
Feel free to bring your own sandwich, sushi roll or lunch salad. (Good) coffee + tea will be provided. Also feel free to bring in personal questions and challenges around paper writing that you’d like to discuss.
The facts:
Where: Building 9, Level 1, Room 27/32, RMIT City Campus
When: Wednesday, 4-Apr-2012, 1pm–2pm
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Harry won a prestigious Spirit of Youth Australia award from Qantas to attend the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, USA and South by South West Interactive in Austin, USA. He will talk about his experiences and what he learned for his game design work in the Exertion Games Lab on Wed, 28th Mar 2012, from 1pm-2pm. Everyone welcome, bring your lunch!
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Chad gave a great interview today about the lab and his work on Exertion Games on public transport in response to Get Active month, you can read all about it 
Danielle from the Exertion Games Lab has been awarded a grant from the Copyright Agency Career Fund to attend CHI in Austin, Texas in May and her Doctoral Thesis, Swing That Thing : moving to move. The poetics of embodied engagement, has been awarded the Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s Mollie Holman Medal for best doctoral thesis. Congratulations!
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The CHI 2012 notification emails are out.
We are happy to announce that the following 8 papers came from authors from the Exertion Games Lab.
- Mueller, F., Vetere, F., Gibbs, M.R., Edge, D., Agamanolis, S., Sheridan, J.G., Heer, J. 2012. Balancing Exertion Experiences. CHI 2012. Long paper. 10 pages.
- Mueller, F., Toprak, C., Graether, E., Walmink, W., Bongers, B., van de Hoven, E. 2012. Hanging off a Bar. CHI 2012. Interactivity. 4 pages.
- Graether, E., Mueller, F. 2012. Joggobot: A Flying Companion as Flying Companion. CHI 2012. Interactivity. 4 pages.
- Mueller, F., Wilde, D., Toprak, C., Graether, E., Berthouze, N. 2012. Future User Research for Exertion Games. CHI 2012. Workshop User Research in Games. 4 pages.
- Tomlinso, B., Ross, J., André, P., Baumer, E.P.S., Patterson, D. J., Corneli, J., Mahaux, M., Nobarany, S., Lazzari, M., Penzenstadler, B., Torrance, A. W., Callele, D. J., Olson, G. M., Silberman, S., Ständer, M., Palamedi, F.R., Salah, A. A., Morrill, E., Franch, X., Mueller, F., Kaye, J., Black, R.W., Cohn, M.L., Shih, P.C., Brewer, J., Goyal, N., Näkki, P., Huang, Jeff., Baghaei, N., Saper, C. 2012. Massively Distributed Authorship of Academic Papers. CHI 2012. alt.chi. 10 pages.
- Wilde, D. 2012. hipdisk: Understanding the Value of Ungainly, Embodied, Performative, Fun. CHI 2012. alt.chi. 10 pages.
- Wilde, D. 2012. hipdisk: Experiencing the Value of Ungainly, Embodied, Performative, Fun. CHI 2012. Interactivity. 4 pages.
- Wilde, D., Cassinelli, A., Zerroug, Alexis. 2012. Light Arrays. CHI 2012. Interactivity. 4 pages.
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Today the ABC’s Catalyst TV crew visited the Exertion Games Lab to shoot video footage of Joggobot, the flying robot that is a social companion for joggers.
“Catalyst is a program that sees science as a dynamic force changing our world.” They were very engaged, and spent the entire day in the lab, shooting footage of how we developed the idea of Joggobot, people’s perceptions of the Joggobot on a running track (see picture) and tested it themselves in our gym.
Unfortunately Eberhard, the main creator behind Joggobot could not have been there, but we highlighted him many times!
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The Exertion Games Lab now has an online photo album which we will be updating regularly. You can find photos from events, projects and fun times starting from day one.
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Chad, Josh and Harry are exhibiting Bubble Popper at the Victorian Physical & Health Education Conference on 17 Feb 2012 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia.
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Inger Mewburn from the Thesis Whisperer gave a great workshop in the Exertion Games Lab today on
How to write a journal article in 7 days
All the material and references from the workshop are here:
http://prezi.com/1dzjvzsq9jxp/write-that-journal-article-in-7-days-revised/
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