Kick-Off Lecture with Prof. Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller: Human-Computer Integration and Experiencing the Body as Play
Join us for an inspiring kick-off lecture in the DTES graduate program, featuring Professor Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller from Monash University, Australia!
Prof. Mueller will present Human-Computer Integration and Experiencing the Body as Play.
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Here are more detail on the topic and Professor Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller:
Human-Computer Integration and Experiencing the Body as Play
To date interacting with computers mostly means focusing outwards, on the environment, rather than inwards, into the human body. However, bodily creativity such as expressed in sports teaches us how powerful experiences can be if the active human body is put center-stage. In consequence, I propose a body-centric human-computer integration (rather than interaction) agenda that stresses bodily play as a core human value: I call it “Experiencing the Body as Play”. I argue that this can facilitate novel alternative approaches addressing some of today’s most pressing health issues, such as physical inactivity, obesity and mental health. I illustrate this thinking by presenting recent work, including green-light aware eBikes, wireless pills and singing ice creams.
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Florian 'Floyd' Mueller
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller is Professor of Future Interfaces at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), where he leads the award-winning Exertion Games Lab. Previously, he was at RMIT, Stanford, University of Melbourne, Microsoft Research, MIT Media Lab, Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Labs, Xerox Parc, and industrial research organization CSIRO. He featured on the top 100 human-computer interaction (HCI) researcher list and was the first Australian-based researcher to be selected to chair the CHI conference: HCI’s highest-ranked publication outlet. Floyd’s games have featured on the BBC, ABC, Discovery Science Channel, and in Wired magazine, and they have been played by more than 20,000 players, across three continents. Floyd is also a member of the prestigious ACM SIGCHI Academy, an honorary group of leaders “who have made substantial contributions to the field of HCI”.