Interaction and Game Designer and Researcher, PhD
Space Agent is a sound and location-based action game where the players are agents on missions to solve Earth from the invisible Xonyans trying to steal our oxygen. The player explores a 3D interactive soundscape while navigating the physical world in this challenging alternate reality game. The game features gesture-based, no-screen interactions.
The Move Maker is a module-based play system designed for social and physical play at home – or outdoors. The module-based design makes it ideal to fit any home environment. The game encourages social and physical play, building on bodily puzzles as the core mechanic. Move Maker’s bodily puzzles are highly engaging and lead to increased bodily awareness and social collaboration. It features several mini-games, including a design-your-own game mode.
10 working days to prepare a doctoral trial lecture on a new topic!
In Norway, the doctoral candidate must successfully hold a trial lecture to gain their doctoral degree.
The challenge: 10 working days before the defence, the candidate is given a topic outside the scope of the doctoral thesis but within the overall field of study.
The topic of the trial lecture was: The Design of Games and Playful Experiences for Nonhuman Creatures.
For more, see Music Performances Loose Tubes Loose Tubes’ is a British avant-garde big band starring Django Bates, Ian Ballamy, Eddie Parker, Ashley Slater, Martin France and many more of Britain’s great jazz and funk musicians. I was blessed to join the band for their 30th-anniversary reunion tour. It was a great experience, and I …
How does it affect the experience when we change the game controls of keyboard key presses to jumps on a trampoline?
Crazy Soccer Physics put on trampolines. Control the crazily moving avatars by jumping on a trampoline and see how many goals you can score – or rather, who ends up in the goal. Instead of boring keypresses, we equipped a trampoline with motion sensors measuring the strength of the players’ jumps. The stronger a jump, the longer a key press, resulting in their avatar jumping high for a long time.
How can we facilitate co-design workshops with experts that encourage them to leave their expert comfort zone for innovative exploration?
Experts are Very … Experts!
Gameplay: Aliens disguised as Mexicans attack you in the desert. You have to survive as long as possible because they are undefeatable; for each one you shoot, it will double itself….
The game is enjoyable. The player is fully immersed while turning around to find the bastards. One drawback is that it is missing binaural sound….
The Annoying Chair is a gentle and playful way of nudging people to change posture while sitting regularly.
Sedentary work is increasing – and with it, health issues such as cardiovascular diseases and musculoskeletal disorders arise.
The annoying chair gently forces the person to change posture by moving balls around inside, creating discomfort (and rewarding comfort).
A mobile pervasive game about being homeless in Copenhagen.
We explored how the physical surroundings influence the game experience.
Feel the life as a homeless person as you try to get money to buy you food and find a safe place to sleep.
A location based quiz similar to Mind the GApp
Mind the G’App is a mobile, location-based quiz developed for the Space Invaders exhibition at the Nikolaj Art Center in 2010. It builds on John Falk’s four types of museum visitors and includes four different quizzes, one for each type of museum guest. The players must find and examine the right installation to answer the …
This is an Exergame Generator. It is a board game designed to design exergames while iteratively exploring the playful qualities of a set of specific physical movements and exercises.
This game came about as a solution to playfully engaging experts in co-design workshops. The game was presented at the Games for Health Conference 2018.