These are the slides for my lighting round talk at Interaction '09 in Vancouver. It is an attempt to link a few qualities of embodied interaction to ideas from game design.

1. Play &
Embodiment
Kars Alfrink – Leapfrog – Interaction 09

2. hello

3. hello

4. hello
flickr.com/photos/josefstuefer/6589762

6. …

9. in this talk…

10. embodiment?

12. 1. meaning is socially constructed
2. cognition is facilitated by tangibility

13. 1. social
construction
of meaning

14. flickr.com/photos/harshadsharma/54021305

15. Courtesy of Sulka Haro

16. flickr.com/photos/thumbuki/2729030526

17. flickr.com/photos/webted/461910237

19. uncertainty

20. flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/420384449

22. 2. cognition
facilitated by
tangibility

23. pragmatic action
vs.
epistemic action

24. flickr.com/photos/chicago_photo_weblog/24088370

25. …

26. “Play is free
movement within a
more rigid structure.”

27. flickr.com/photos/wapster/1097032971

28. loose fit

29. “Function reforms
form, perpetually.”

31. meta-creators
of meaning?

32. Thanks!
This presentation and more: leapfrog.nl/blog