Thesis ‘Activating Play: A Design Research Study on How to Elicit Playful Interaction from Teenagers’
This thesis presents a design research study about activating play: learning and showing how to stimulate physical and social play for teenagers using interactive technology in public spaces.
To achieve this goal, a design research process has been used: an iterative process of design, evaluation and analysis. Four design research cycles were executed in this project, each building on the results of the previous cycles. In these cycles, many prototypes were designed, implemented and evaluated with teenagers in public spaces . Through the design research cycles a design vision of free play was developed. Free play is creative and autonomous play, without predetermined structure or meaning, that continually evolves through the actions and interactions of the players.
The combination of the designs and design knowledge is the main contribution of this thesis. Together, they explain and illustrate how we can stimulate physical and social play for teenagers using interactive technology in public spaces.
This gallery of playful moments shows sixteen interactive installations developed as part of the PhD thesis of Rob Tieben.
PhD Defense 28 september 2015
The invitation:
I am proud to invite you to the defense of my PhD thesis titled ‘Activating Play: a design research study on how to elicit playful interaction from teenagers’. You are warmly welcome to my defense and to the symposium (see below) at September 28th.
The committee consists of the following members:
- prof.dr.ir. A.C. Brombacher
- prof.dr. B.A.M. Schouten
- prof.dr.ir. J.H. Eggen
- dr.ir. M.M. Bekker
- dr. J.A. Sturm
- prof.dr. W. Gaver (Goldsmiths University)
- prof.dr. A. Waern (Uppsala University)
- prof.dr. W.A. IJsselsteijn
- T. Watson (Design I/O)
The defense will take place in Filmzaal Zwarte Doos, at the Eindhoven University of Technology; it will start at 16.00 sharp.
Hope to see you there! Best regards, Rob
