Rob Tieben @ Work

Press campaign about Playful Interactions Recently, I’ve...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:14:00 +0100

Press campaign about Playful Interactions

Recently, I’ve been featured in the TU/e press campaign, about playful persuasion, playfit, and my vision. Photos, a commercial on national television, and a 1-minute video about my work. Clearly a commercial, but still - a nice overview of my work!

More information:

Commercial on Dutch television | YouTube
One minute interview/report | YouTube

Games [4Health] Jam 2012: Public Play Together with Menno...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:56:00 +0200

Games [4Health] Jam 2012: Public Play

Together with Menno Deen, Janienke Sturm and Luuk Waarbroek, I organized the 2nd Games [4Health] Jam; this year’s theme was ‘public play’, and once again the 70 students created working games that motivate people to play in an active way - within 50 hours!

The results have been presented and exhibited at the Dutch Design Week Stadhuis exhibition, the Games for Health Europe conference, and at the Games in the City conference.

More information:

Video overview of the presentations: vimeo
Video impression of the gamejam: vimeo
Game jam website & overview results: url

Course: games in the swimming pool 35 students from 3...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Course: games in the swimming pool

35 students from 3 education programs, 40 teenagers, a swimming pool, and 7 interactive games in the water: the course swimgames.nl was a great success!
In this course, developed and lectured by Menno Deen and myself, our students designed and developed interactive games in the swimming pool. Cameras, RFID readers, buttons: it was all added to the Tongelreep swimming pool, and evaluated right away by eager teenagers.

Hart van Nederland, a national news agency, also covered us in a news feature.

More information can be found at Swimgames.nl

More information:

Video overview of ‘in-progress’ concepts: Vimeo
Video overview of final concepts: Vimeo
Hart van Nederland news item: HvN
Course website & overview results: url

PlayFit Student Explorations In the PlayFit project, I am -...

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:12:00 +0200

the LightScribe app, a mobile app that allows light scribing - painting with light. By Hanna Zoon.

dotMirror, an interactive mirror that visualizes your silhouette in a enhancing way. By Troy Reugebrink.

Bomb It, an installation in the swimming pool that records user's jumps and bombs, and displays them on a large screen. By vd Bogaard, Donkers, Jacobs, Leenders, Verhoeven and v Woelderen.

Tea Seat, connected seats that allow playful sitting: movements on one seat, such as tilting, are translated to the other seat. By Al Abdeli, Janssen, Kersteman and Scheffer.

PlayFit Student Explorations

In the PlayFit project, I am - and have been - coaching several students projects at ID TU/e and Fontys ICT GD&T. In these projects, students design and develop prototypes to motivate teenagers to be physically active, based on the principles from the PlayFit project and my design-research.

The pictures show some examples of student’s explorations:

the LightScribe app, a mobile app that allows light scribing - painting with light. By Hanna Zoon.
dotMirror, an interactive mirror that visualizes your silhouette in a enhancing way. By Troy Reugebrink.
Bomb It, an installation in the swimming pool that records user’s jumps and bombs, and displays them on a large screen. By vd Bogaard, Donkers, Jacobs, Leenders, Verhoeven and v Woelderen.
Tea Seat, connected seats that allow playful sitting: movements on one seat, such as tilting, are translated to the other seat. By Al Abdeli, Janssen, Kersteman and Scheffer.

Second price Health 2.0 Challenge Together with Menno Deen and...

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Second price Health 2.0 Challenge

Together with Menno Deen and Ton Sleegers, I won the 2nd price in the Health 2.0 Challenge. We won this price of 2000 euro with our game-concept RopeJump.
RopeJump is a multiplayer game in the swimming pool, where players take turns to dive to the bottom of the pool, and try to hit the underwater button at the exact right moment. If they succeed, and their avatar jumps over the rope, the next player has to dive down. A social (co-op) game of swimming, fun, holding your breath, and discussing tactics and strategies to win from other teams!

Games [4 Health] Jam 2011 Together with Menno Deen, Mark van...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Games [4 Health] Jam 2011

Together with Menno Deen, Mark van Kuijk and Janienke Sturm, I organised our 2nd Games [4 Health] Jam. A weekend in which 65 students and alumni from the Netherlands and abroad engaged in a game design competition, focused on developing games that motivate teenagers to be physically active.
A great success, and very enjoyable! More details can be found at gamesjam.nl

PlayFit Explorations In the PlayFit project, which is closely...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Magic Mirror prototype, evaluated in a school

One of the Magic Mirror effects

Overview of user's actions in the Magic Mirror prototype

Overview of user's actions in the Magic Mirror prototype

Whisper Balls, record and listen to messages

Whisper Balls, record and listen to messages

PlayFit Explorations

In the PlayFit project, which is closely connected to my PhD project, we try to motivate teenagers to become casually active through playful interaction. In other words, we design enjoyable installations in and around the school, that invite teenagers to start playing - and while playing, they inherently have to use their body. We call this playful persuasion.
Challenges for us are how to invite and elicit teenagers to start playing in an active way, and how to prolong the invitation and enjoyment for subsequent encounters.

The pictures show some examples of my explorations:

the Magic Mirror, a sort of funhouse mirror that distorts the mirror image. This installation was placed in a high school, and evaluated - teenagers explored and used it in various active and enjoyable ways.
Whisper Balls, small balls that can be used to record and play voice messages.

Publication & Best Long Paper Award Together with Tilde Bekker and Ben Schouten, I published a...

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Publication & Best Long Paper Award

Together with Tilde Bekker and Ben Schouten, I published a long paper for the BHCI 2011 conference, about my curious-action project.
After presenting it at the conference in Newcastle, our publication was rewarded with the Best Long Paper Award!

Downloads:

Publication at Chi-Sparks conference Together with Tilde...

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Publication at Chi-Sparks conference

Together with Tilde Bekker, Janienke Sturm and Ben Schouten, I published and presented a long paper at the Chi-Sparks conference in the Netherlands. The article, named ‘Eliciting casual activity through playful exploration, communication, personalisation and expression’, covered findings and insights from our PlayFit project and the first year of my PhD.

Downloads:

Book chapter about Ambient Gaming & Playful Interaction Together with Ben Schouten, Antoine van...

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:11:00 +0100

Book chapter about Ambient Gaming & Playful Interaction

Together with Ben Schouten, Antoine van de Ven and David Schouten, I published a book chapter about Human Behavior Analysis in Ambient Gaming & Playful Interaction. This chapter gives an overview of the history of gaming, and the changes through time for input and output. It will be published in ‘Computer Analysis of Human Behavior’, edited by A.A. Salah and T. Gevers.

Downloads:

Schouten, Tieben, van de Ven and Schouten (2011). HBA in Ambient Gaming and Playful Interaction. In: Computer Analysis of Human Behavior, 2011.

Young Talent Social Design Award My project curious action was...

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Young Talent Social Design Award

My project curious action was nominated for the Young Talent Social Design award, and received a shared 2nd price and honorable mention!
The design competition nominated the project from all Eindhoven Design student projects - all student projects presented in the Dutch Design Week 2010.

Curious-action: eliciting curiosity Design-research project on...

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Curious-action: eliciting curiosity

Design-research project on eliciting repetitive curiosity in public spaces. This explorative research study focussed on curiosity: how can we make passers-by curious, and invite them for a short ‘walk-through-and-use’ interaction. As a research tool and proof-of-concept, six interactive speakers have been implemented: modular devices that respond to user activity (e.g. walking by or waving) with different sorts of auditory output.

Publications:

Curiosity and Interaction: making people curious through interactive systems - Proceedings of BHCI 2011 (best long paper award)
Interfaces - Magazine of BCS Interaction Group - autumn 2011 issue; article about Best Long Paper

Exhibitions:

ID’10 2010 - Dutch Design Week exhibition

Awards:

Young Talent Social Design Award [nominated] - shared 2nd price, design competition of all Eindhoven Design student projects
British HCI 2011 conference - best long paper award

Touch Me Dare – bodily music TouchMeDare is an interactive...

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:06:00 +0200

Touch Me Dare – bodily music

TouchMeDare is an interactive music installation that elicits exploration and meetings with strangers through mutual touch. Bodily contact (on both sides of the canvas) activates music samples, enabling an explorative search through music and intimate cooperation.
TouchMeDare has been successfully implemented and evaluated on the Lowlands festival (55.000 visitors), and on various other occasions.

Publications:

Meeting Duet; Challenging People into a Body Language of Meeting – Proceedings of DeSForM 2006
Meeting by Moving, Mediated through Music – Journal of Urban Computing and Mobile Devices 2007
Contact Through Canvas, An Entertaining Encounter – Journal of Pers. and Ubiq. Computing 2009
IDzine – TU/e ID news letter
Daily Paradise – Lowlands festival program guide 2007

Exhibitions:

Design United 2006 – Dutch Design Week Exhibition (Meeting Duet prototype)
Design United 2007 – Dutch Design Week Exhibition (TouchMeDare prototype)
DeSForM conference 2006
Lowlands festival 2007 (55.000 visitors)
TU/e open house 2007
Opening /d.search-labs 2006
Inaugural lecture Prof. Overbeeke 2007
V2 Test_LAB multimodal

Original project team:

Koen van Boerdonk, Eva Deckers, Hugo Nagtzaam, Jesper Schwachofer, Rob Tieben

Continued by:

Koen van Boerdonk & Rob Tieben

Client / Project Coaches:

Eric van Eerdenburg, Mojo Concerts / Sietske Klooster, Elise van den Hoven

Make me move - lighting tiles MakeMeMove is an interactive...

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:20:00 +0100

Make me move - lighting tiles

MakeMeMove is an interactive playground that invites young children (4-12) to be physically active. This modular playground of 64 interactive tiles features several games, such as tagging, ‘skip-the-line’ and ‘fill the floor’.
MakeMeMove has been evaluated and exhibited on various occasions, entertaining hundreds of children and adults – and motivating them to be physically active in a playful way.

Publications:

Cursor 2005 – TU/e news paper
Telegraaf 2005 – large Dutch national news paper
IDzine 2005 – TU/e ID news letter
SBS6 television news 2006 – major Dutch television network
various TNO publications (client)
various national and international blog items

Exhibitions:

DesignUnited 2006
TNO Sport Exhibition 2006
Symposium FieldLab Eindhoven 2006
Sport & Technology conference 2006
Nederland Innovatief conference 2007

Design team:

Lisa op ‘t Hof, Ivo Stuyfzand, Balasz Szekely, Pieter van Wegberg, Jurgen Westerhoff, Rob Tieben

Client / Project Coach:

Tinus Jongert, TNO Quality of Life / Peter Joore