UCLIC Seminar: Hands off! Playing games with your body

Speaker: Ronald Poppe, Utrecht University
UCL Contact: Sandy Gould (Visitors from outside UCL please email in advance).
Date/Time: 29 Apr 15, 15:00 - 16:00
Venue: 1.20

Abstract

The introduction of computer games has caused a drop in the amount of time children spend playing in a physically active way. We'd like to reverse the trend: by combining digital play and body movement, we aim at creating engaging and fun game experiences. I will present some of our research projects in which body and face motion is used to play games. The talk will focus on sensing technology, adaptive game play and social aspects of these games.

Ronald Poppe

Ronald Poppe received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Twente, The Netherlands on the topic "Discriminative Vision-Based Recovery and Recognition of Human Motion". In 2009, 2010 and 2012, he was a visiting researcher at the Delft University of Technology, Stanford University and University of Lancaster, respectively. He is currently an assistant professor at Utrecht University. His research interests include the analysis of human motion from videos and other sensors, the understanding and modelling of human (communicative) behaviour and the applications of both in real-life settings.