Organizers

Yoram Chisik is an independent researcher based in Haifa, Israel and a lecturer at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany. His research explores the nature and meaning of technological interactions in the digital age.

Ferran Altarriba Bertran is a PhD student at University of California Santa Cruz. His research explores the design space of everyday-use playful technologies, with a focus on their social and emotional value. ferranaltarriba.com

Marie-Monique Schaper is an interaction designer and a post-doctoral researcher at the Information and Communication Technologies Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. She focuses on merging playful technologies and design research in different disciplines of interaction and is specifically interested in the exploration of novel strategies for embodied design techniques for children.

Elena Márquez Segura is a Distinguished Research Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Elena designs and researches in the domain of movement based co-located social play. She specializes in embodied design methods that can serve in different stages of the design process.

Laia Turmo Vidal is a PhD candidate in Interaction Design and HCI at Uppsala University, Sweden. In her PhD research, she investigates how to support movement learning processes in fitness activities through interactive technology. Her research interests include embodied design, co-operative social computing and play.

Danielle Wilde is associate professor of Embodied Design at the University of Southern Denmark. She leads critical participatory design research in food and climate futures, social and ecological sustainability, engaging with wicked problems that cut cross disciplines and cultures to rethink practices, policies and technologies through a bottom-up approach. http://www.daniellewilde.com