Game Designer and Researcher, PhD
What is the experience of The Move Maker – a game to be played by families indoors while promoting physical and social action? And how is it appropriated to the players’ everyday home environment? This study evaluates a hybrid play system as a family activity during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown – and an adapted (unmoderated) …
Proud to announce that our paper about best practices for designing bodily extensions has been accepted for CHI2023. We wanted to know the current best practices for designing playful bodily extensions. Based on five in-depth interviews and workshops with the designers of Monarch, the Interactive Cosplay Tail, Wigglears and Arm-a-Dine, we extracted a set of …
I am proud to announce that I successfully defended my Doctoral Thesis. You can watch the Zoom session recording in the video below if interested. You can download a digital copy of the thesis here.
Here, you can find information about and links to my academic work. Enjoy. Academic Writing Workshops Manuscripts and Preprints See Researchgate for some of my unpublished writings.
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 …
This game system is one of the results of my research at NTNU as part of the EXACT research project. The game system is developed as a prototype – read the evaluation of the prototype here. The game system won the CHI2020 game competition. Design Space The design space was designing exergames for older adults …
Video presentations of my research papers.
How does it affect the experience when we change the game controls of keyboard key presses to jumps on a trampoline? This study was part of my research at the NTNU on bodily experience, exergames and technological entanglement. It formed part of the following publications; My Role In the effort to investigate embodied interactive experiences …
This study was part of my research at the NTNU on bodily experience, exergames and technological entanglement. It formed part of the research papers; Research topic As part of my research on bodily experiences of and entanglement with technologies et the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), I found the performance event Infoerno particularly …
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! As part of the EXACT research project (a collaboration with the Department of Movement Science at NTNU) about exergames for older adults, I wanted to explore playful balance training exercises …
This is a demo of an HTC Vive VR game made at RMIT for their Summer School on Playful Interactions. 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 Annoying Chair is a gentle and playful way of nudging people to change posture while sitting regularly. Demo 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 …
This is my 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. Background 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. …