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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Back in Melbourne, Australia
After a fantastic research experience with Microsoft Research Asia, back in Melbourne, Australia.
And a new journal article is published online:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/a64492475454p203/
And a new journal article is published online:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/a64492475454p203/
Labels: journal
Friday, November 27, 2009
Week 7 at Microsoft Research Asia
Designed a visual presentation of a framework for Exertion games:
The example here shows Table Tennis for Three from a single-player perspective, I have left out the arrows for the other 2 players, but they are equivalent.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Week 5 at Microsoft Research Asia
Tracked down sources for equipment
Identified hard- and software requirements
Talked to James Landay about how to evaluate if design themes are useful: agreed on meeting with HCI experts and designers where they discuss how themes played out in design.
Identified development team that works on Natal to work with them.
Refined thesis-on-1-page
Identified hard- and software requirements
Talked to James Landay about how to evaluate if design themes are useful: agreed on meeting with HCI experts and designers where they discuss how themes played out in design.
Identified development team that works on Natal to work with them.
Refined thesis-on-1-page
Labels: msra
Monday, November 9, 2009
Week 4 at Microsoft Research Asia
Gave talk at Nokia Beijing on Exertion Interactions, with a particular focus on "Jogging over a Distance".
Organized visitors from RMIT to see Microsoft and give talk.
Inquired vendors about purchasing of EMS systems, might need to modify own due to costs.
Met with Advanced Technology Center at Microsoft to help with design.
Met with Richard Harper, Andrew Blake, Desney Tan, Jonathan Grudin.
Organized visitors from RMIT to see Microsoft and give talk.
Inquired vendors about purchasing of EMS systems, might need to modify own due to costs.
Met with Advanced Technology Center at Microsoft to help with design.
Met with Richard Harper, Andrew Blake, Desney Tan, Jonathan Grudin.
Labels: msra
Friday, October 30, 2009
Week 3 at MIcrosoft Research Asia
This week included attending the distinguished speakers in HCI seminar, organising a talk with Nokia and the Natal team in Redmond, and talking to other researchers about their demos from ACM Multimedia.
Tried out EMS for a game idea that involves 'in your body' activities. Seems suitable for synchronizing distributed (individual) muscle activities.
Tried out EMS for a game idea that involves 'in your body' activities. Seems suitable for synchronizing distributed (individual) muscle activities.
Labels: msra
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Week 2 at Microsoft Research Asia
This week, I learned more about the technology researched here, and talked to some very smart people about their work in relation to Exertion Interactions.
I've given a talk about Exertion, on the same day as Desney Tan's talk, which made me think that our work has a lot in common: we are both very interested in a close link between technology and the body, which tries to enhance the bodily action, rather than enabling a reflection on it afterwards, which is more James Landay's work. (I think they can be nicely combined). I call it 'in your face computing', it is on an extreme end of the 'hidden in objects' approach of Weisner's ubiquitous computing.
Also tried to structure design themes: maybe themes are framed based on a lens on Exertion Games depending whether you see them as "exertion play", "socially mediated play" and "rule-based play", similar to what Salen and Zimmerman do to understand games, they also see them from different angles to understand them as a whole (, without infererring that these aspects can be investigated independantly).
Currently still juggling 2 game ideas, need to refine one or combine both.
I've given a talk about Exertion, on the same day as Desney Tan's talk, which made me think that our work has a lot in common: we are both very interested in a close link between technology and the body, which tries to enhance the bodily action, rather than enabling a reflection on it afterwards, which is more James Landay's work. (I think they can be nicely combined). I call it 'in your face computing', it is on an extreme end of the 'hidden in objects' approach of Weisner's ubiquitous computing.
Also tried to structure design themes: maybe themes are framed based on a lens on Exertion Games depending whether you see them as "exertion play", "socially mediated play" and "rule-based play", similar to what Salen and Zimmerman do to understand games, they also see them from different angles to understand them as a whole (, without infererring that these aspects can be investigated independantly).
Currently still juggling 2 game ideas, need to refine one or combine both.
Labels: in your face computing, msra
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