Scent: Expressive chemistry This is an excerpt of a larger lecture about designing playful experiences, games-as-art, and my newest research in olfactory play experiences. This lecture was co-sponsored by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry,…
Bringing Gameplay to Exhibits In June 2013 I took part in a panel on Gameplay and Storytelling in science exhibitions at Ecsite 2013 – The annual conference of the European Network of Science Centres and Museums.…
Designing the female orgasm For the Lift13 innovation conference in Geneva, Switzerland, I was asked to talk a bit about my research in sensual interface and gameplay design. My presentation covers a bit of my own…
Star Wars Identities I contributed interaction, writing, and game design for the engaging visitor experience of Star Wars Identities: The Exhibition, working with exhibition development firm gsmprjct°. Gsm are one of the Montreal companies forming…
Touchable Tent Prototype Aurora An immersive interaction prototype created at Art && Code 3D to explore the potential for physical interaction with digital interfaces from a non-upright body position (such as sitting, lying, reclining, floating, etc).…
OhMiBod Remote app Perfect Plum’s original and best-known product is the revolutionary iPhone app, the OhMiBod Remote. The OhMiBod app is an intuitive and stylish vibrator interface for the iPhone. By “finger painting” on the…
Fabulous/Fabuleux Fabulous/Fabuleux, with Lynn Hughes and Alain Thibault, with Geoffrey Jones, is a physical interface game for public interior spaces. Using the soft “squisher” interface object which senses room location, directional movement, and…
SUGAR SUGAR is a multi-modal sensory installation I completed while Artist-in-Residence at Subotron, the video game culture center at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Austria. Based on the aesthetics and lore of the famed…
Ontology of the senses in interface From 1994 to 1997 I studied at the ACTLab, a small and at-the-time-somewhat-insane speculative research lab headed by Dr. Sandy Stone, within the School of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at…
