An enchanting talk by Hanna Wirman at the Bristol Games Hub yesterday. Every time I hear Hanna speak of her research designing games for…
Category: design for postdigital play
dancing with technology
Dancing with Technology: Mobile Pie’s Richard Wilson talks about DanceTag How game developers and a dance agency are collaborating on a playful app to…
gender gamified
From a discussion on Kotaku.com following the redesign of female soldiers in Warface for the Russian market, apparently based on a survey of Russian…
DanceTag in the wild
A moment from a playtesting / publicity event for the Dancetag project as part of the Digital Festival in Brighton. A group of women…
hybrid ontology of mobile gaming
‘Within the phenomenological framework, we can see how the mobile game-play in both urban and domestic places evokes particular kinds of embodiment, indicative of…
Nesta R&D Digital Fund: DanceTag project
More on this new project soon, and plenty of posts to follow. I’ll write up a clearer outline of what we’re doing, but here’s…
researching the dancers
As research partner on this project I will be regularly blogging on the research methods I’m using, adapting and inventing. The research will involve:…
Configuring the dancer
In the DNS / Stratus usability trials, neither machine nor user is settled / experienced / established. Consequently, the interactions are part of the…
NESTA Digital R&D bid success
This marks the start of a new project. I’m the academic research lead on a collaboration between Pavilion Dance and Mobile Pie to develop…