Redbeard’s Pirate Quest Connected toy pirate ship adventure In the late 1990s, San Mateo-based Zowie Intertainment, one of two kids’ technology start-ups at Paul Allen’s Interval Research, developed and built the first generation of “connected…
Protection Song Near the beginning of the pandemic, as the world shut down, the hospitals overflowed, and the United States erupted in renewed calls for racial justice, I was asked to submit a session…
Trente Pas (Version Musicale) Trente Pas Entre Terre et Ciel (version Musicale) is an extremely long hopscotch, designed to be played by multiple pairs of players at once. In a numbered sequence of squares, each consecutive…
THE DANCINGULARITY THE DANCINGULARITY is an audience-interactive dancegasm induction machine created and controlled by KOKOROMI. On September 21, 2012, THE DANCINGULARITY debuted at the Highball in Austin, TX as part of Fantastic Arcade. This…
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).…
