Gameplay innovation through technical innovation: exergames, animation, computer vision.

1. Aalto Games Research
Asst. Prof. Perttu Hämäläinen
Dept. of Computer Science (SCI)
Dept. of Media (ARTS)
Professorship: Computer games
Video Showreel:
http://urly.fi/xqF

2. Research themes
• Gameplay innovation through technical innovation.
• Novel creativity tools to save time and create fresh
aesthetic.
• All things human movement: exergames, animation,
computer vision

3. Mission
• Improve health through motivating physical activity
• Create new mixed reality sports, and extend the
audience of existing sports (e.g., diversified challenges)

4. Cross-disciplinarity
• Computer vision and sensors
• Bodily human-computer interaction (HCI)
• Perception and action in virtual environments
• Sport and exercise psychology
• Procedural character animation (”motion AI”)
Images from motion AI paper presented at SIGGRAPH 2015

5. Where do we publish?
• ACM CHI, CHI PLAY, ACM SIGGRAPH, Transactions on
Graphics, International Journal of Computer Science in
Sports (IJCSS), Sports Technology...
• Research approach: create technology and experimental
research games, use the games as research instruments
• Contributions in the form of
– New algorithms, interfaces, interaction design approaches
– Player experience data, design guidelines and insights

6. Let’s collaborate if you’re interested in
• Sports technology & motor learning
• HCI, bodily interaction
• Animation
• Machine learning with movement or games-related datasets
(motion data, optimal control trajectories, physics simulation
results, player behavior...)
• Finding game applications for your novel technologies
perttu.hamalainen@aalto.fi
http://perttu.info
http://urly.fi/xqF (YouTube showreel)