Talks

Buildings and Brains at the Nijmegen Design Platform (NOP)

In Talks on 20 July 2009 tagged behavior, cities, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, design, events, game design, interaction design, lectures, LUX, Nijmeegs Ontwerp Platform, Nijmegen Design Platform, nop, perception, pervasive games, physical, play, procedural rhetoric, social, Talks, urban, urban games with 1 comment

It’s been a few weeks since I presented at the Nijmegen Design Platform (NOP), but I thought it would still be useful to post a summary of what I talked about here. Update: it took me a while, but the slides that accompanied this talk are now up at SlideShare. A little context: The NOP [...]

Play in Social and Tangible Interactions

In Talks on 8 May 2009 tagged adaptation, embodied, game design, improvisation, interaction design, meaning, play, social, tangible with 2 comments

Now that the IxDA has posted a video of my presentation at Interaction 09 to Vimeo, I thought it would be a good idea to provide a little background to the talk. I had already posted the slides to SlideShare, so a full write-up doesn’t seem necessary. To provide a little context though, I will [...]

Mashing Up the Real-Time City and Urban Games

In Talks on 24 April 2009 tagged biology, cities, culture, evolution, game design, games, gaming, GD, interaction design, IxD, literacy, nature, play, processes, symbiosis, systems, the real-time city, urban, urbanism with 4 comments

Yesterday evening I was at the Club of Amsterdam. They host events centred around preferred futures. I was invited to speak at an evening about the future of games.1 I thought I’d share what I talked about with you here. I had ten minutes to get my point across. To be honest, I think I [...]

A Playful Stance — My Game Design London 2008 Talk

In Talks on 17 November 2008 tagged architecture, conferences, control, design, emergence, game design, Game Design London, GD, GDL, interaction design, IxD, learning, media, play, Playful 08, playgrounds, presentations, skateboarding, slides, Talks, tools, underspecification with 10 comments

A while ago I was interviewed by Sam Warnaars. He’s researching people’s conference experiences; he asked me what my most favourite and least favourite conference of the past year was. I wish he’d asked me after my trip to Playful ’08, because it has been by far the best conference experience to date. Why? Because [...]

Reboot 10 Slides and Video

In Talks on 11 September 2008 tagged architecture, arguments, cities, conferences, culture, events, game design, GD, interaction design, IxD, mobile, play, politics, presentations, procedural rhetoric, reboot 10, slides, social, tangible, urbanism, videos with Comments Off

I am breaking radio-silence for a bit to let you know the slides and video for my Reboot 10 presentation are now available online, in case you’re interested. I presented this talk before at The Web and Beyond, but this time I had a lot more time, and I presented in English. I therefore think [...]

Playing With Complexity — Slides and Notes for My NLGD Festival of Games Talk

In Talks on 9 July 2008 tagged aesthetics, Ben Fry, collective intelligence, complexity, data visualization, dataviz, emergence, exploration, Festival of Games 2008, frivolity, futures, game design, games, GD, happiness hacking, information design, information graphics, information visualization, infoviz, interaction design, IxD, Jane McGonigal, languages, ludic fallacy, NLGD, personal informatics, play, prediction, prescription, Stamen Design, supercontext, utility with 14 comments

When the NLGD Foundation invited me to speak at their anual Festival of Games I asked them what they would like me to discuss. “Anything you like,” was what they said, essentially. I decided to submit an abstract dealing with data visualization. I had been paying more and more attention to this field, but was [...]

Slides and Summary for ‘More Than Useful’

In Talks on 23 June 2008 tagged adaptation, conferences, customization, events, FBTB 2008, From Business to Buttons 2008, game design, GD, interaction design, IxD, personalization, play, presentations, slides with 4 comments

Update: The video and slides are now available on the conference site. The conference From Business to Buttons 2008 aimed to bring together the worlds of business and interaction design. I was there to share my thoughts on the applicability of game design concepts to interaction design. You’ll find my slides and a summary of [...]

Urban Procedural Rhetorics — Transcript of My TWAB 2008 Talk

In Talks on 27 May 2008 tagged 2008, alternate reality games, architecture, ARGs, cameras, cities, conferences, control, culture, events, everyware, flash mobs, free running, freedom, game design, GD, graffiti, hoaxes, interaction design, IxD, LED throwies, Mario Question Blocks, mobility, physical computing, play, politics, presentations, privacy, procedural rhetoric, Provo, public space, security, September 12, skateboarding, slides, street art, surveillance, Talks, The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility, TWAB, TWAB 2008, TWAB08, ubicomp, ubiquitous computing, UFOs, urbanism, user experience, UX, Zona Incerta with 22 comments

This is a transcript of my presentation at The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility in Amsterdam on 22 May. Since the majority of paying attendees were local I presented in Dutch. However, English appears to be the lingua franca of the internet, so here I offer a translation. I have uploaded the slides to SlideShare [...]

Designing a Mobile Social Gaming Experience for Gen-C

In Talks on 25 February 2008 tagged 2008, attention, casual, choice, conferences, events, experience design, game design, game developers conference, game systems, games, gaming, GD, GDC 2008, GDC Mobile 2008, generation c, interaction design, IxD, lectures, metagames, mobile, play, playyoo, presentations, san francisco, slides, social, social objects, Talks, user experience, UX, XD with 6 comments

Update 21-03-2008: I’ve added some images of slides to allow for some more context when reading the text. This is a rough transcript of my lecture at GDC Mobile 2008. In short: I first briefly introduce the concept of experience design and systems and then show how this influences my views of mobile casual games. [...]

Slides for My Oslo UXnet Meetup Talk

In Talks on 17 January 2008 tagged game design, games, gaming, GD, interaction design, IxD, Norway, Oslo, play, playful, presentations, slides, Talks, user experience, UX, UXnet with 1 comment

Last night I presented at the January UXnet meetup in Oslo. When Are invited me to come over I thought I’d be talking to maybe 60 user experience people. 200 showed up—talk about kicking off the year with a bang. I think the crew at Netlife Research may just have written UXnet history. I’m not [...]