WEARTUAL – Designing and Developing Wearables for Virtual Reality Environments with a Research Through Design Process

20. 2021 (November 1^st – December 13^th)  Course: HTI.042 & UWAS-C0049 Design from the future – Creating Futures, Tampere University and Aalto University, Tampere & Helsinki, Finland (Online).

19. 2021 (September 26^th) Talk: Gamifying Life Styles with Playful Wearables, Game Wave Festival 2021, Jūrmala, Latvia.

18. 2021 (August 2^nd -August 12^th)  Course: HTI.042 – Design from the future – Critical, speculative and physical design, Tampere University Summer School, Tampere, Finland (Online).

17. 2021 (June 18^th) Talk: Gamified Bodies and Gameful Experiences, Gamification Federation Turkey | Gamification Hackathon Opening Talk, Istanbul, Turkey (Online).

16. 2021 (May 30^th) Talk: Utilization of Wearables in Role-Playing Games, DijitallabPerformans / Cihangir Akademi, Istanbul, Turkey (Online).

15. 2021 (May 7^th) Presentation: Towards the Next Generation of Extended Reality Wearables, CHI ’21: The 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Session: Late-Breaking Work Day 2, Online.

14. 2021 (May 7^th) Presentation: Towards the Next Generation of Gaming Wearables, CHI ’21: The 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Session: Virtual Reality, Embodied Experiences, Toxicity, Online.

13. 2021 (March 29^th) Talk: Fostering Playful Experience with Wearables, Games Now! Lecture Series, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (Online).

12. 2021 (March 12^th) Talk: Making Wearables for and through Playful Experiences, İstanbul Modern & Royal College of Art | Thinking Through Making: Diversity in Practice, Istanbul, Turkey (Online).

11. 2021 (March 11^th) Guest Lecture: Designing Playful Wearables, DZC30 Design for Games & Play, Eindhoven, Netherlands (Online).

10. 2021 (February 14^th) Presentation: Designing Gaming Wearables: From Participatory Design to Concept Creation, TEI ’21: ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Session: Pictorials, Online.

9. 2021 (February 5^th) Talk: Ways of Producing Fiction for Engaging with Emergent Futures in Design Research, Tampere University | Exploring the Speculative Method in Art, Design & STS, Tampere, Finland.

8. 2020 (July 14^th) Virtual Presentation: Transurbanism: Smart Cities for Transhumans – A Conversation from the Future, with Mattia Thibault and Seda Suman Buruk, Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.

7. 2020 (January 28^th) Talk: Read by the City: Digital Transurbanism and Facial Recognition, with Mattia Thibault, Transhuman Visages Artificial Faces in Arts, Science, and Society international conference, Warsaw, Poland.

6. 2020 (January 13^th– January 24th) Course and Workshop: Design Workshops for Wearables, Games and Extended Reality, Tampere University, Finland.

5. 2019 (November 19^th) Performance: Otherworld: Ouija Board as a Resource for Design , Halfway to the Future Symposium, Nottingham, England, UK.

4. 2019 (October 24^th) Talk: Designing Wearables for Fostering Playful Experiences, Media and Information Technologies Talk Series, Linköping University, Sweden.

3. 2019 (October 9^th) Talk: Wearables for Fostering Playful Experiences, Oasis Opening Talk, Tampere University, Finland.

2. 2019 (September 3^rd – 6^th) Workshop: Design Workshops for Wearables, Games and Extended Reality, University of California, Irvine and University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

1. 2019 (August 29^th) Talk: Design Framework for Playful Wearables, with Katherine Isbister and Tess Tanenbaum, The International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games 2019, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.