Research

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.

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).

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.