Research talk: Tangible Play + Pizza

[Florian 'Floyd' Mueller]

Research talk: Tangible Play + Pizza

Thursday, 10 Nov 2011, 5-6pm

Exertion Games Lab, RMIT 9.1.27 (exertiongameslab.org/about)

The Exertion Games Lab is fortunate to have Elise van den Hoven from the Netherlands visiting RMIT and talk about her design research on Tangible Interaction in Games and Play. Her talk is entitled Tangible Play and will cover the following three studies: 1- TouchMeDare, an interactive festival installation, 2- Game balancing to help weaker players in a board game, and 3- Marbowl, a moving marble bowl.

To celebrate the occasion, we'll provide free pizza (organized by our Italian Michele, thanks!)

About Elise

Dr. Elise van den Hoven MTD received her PhD in 2004, based on design research into tangible interaction and remembering, executed at Philips Research. Since 2003 she has been assistant professor at the User-Centered Engineering group, Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Elise has been working on tangible interaction and remembering with a user-centered design research approach since 1999. In 2007 and 2008 she chaired the only dedicated conference on tangible interaction: Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, and since then she has been on its steering committee.

Elise was the university's representative in the Dutch Music Art Design-network and the president of the university's Women's network. Earlier this year she became program manager of the No Switches Allowed track within the Intelligent Lighting Institute, which focuses on innovative interaction styles with light and lighting of the future.

She was a visiting scientist at the Synaesthetic Media Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, the Memoir project, University of Sheffield, UK, and currently at the Interactivation Studio, DAB, UTS. For more information, see: www.elisevandenhoven.com

Talk announcement in HTML: http://exertiongameslab.org/research-talk-tangible-play-pizza

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In Wired:

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/09/exertion-games-lab-where-physical-meets-digital/