I’m just home from the VS Games 2010 conference which took place in Braga, Portugal. I presented our paper from the University of Ulster entitled “Augmented Reality Games for Upper-Limb Stroke Rehabilitation”. We’re really pleased to have won best short paper at the conference (we won best paper at the conference last year – on a roll baby…).

I have uploaded a new presentation to my SlideShare which is a merge of the VS Games presentation and a recent one hour seminar I gave at the university. It includes videos of the games I’ve been working on, including some early prototypes of augmented reality games (note: these are in their VERY early stages – still glitchy and need developed much further). You can find the presentation below.

As mentioned in the past few posts, I did a presentation on [i] The History of Video Games and [b] Serious Games at the Barcamp Derry conference on Saturday. At the end of the talk I promised to upload my slides to my blog, and here they are!  I’ve uploaded them to SlideShare, so they can viewed online or downloaded (by pressing the menu button) for offline/viewing or editing.  You can find them after the “read more” link below, as well as a list of recommended reading.

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I’ll be co-presenting a lecture for the Belfast Institute of Engineering and Technology at the Malone Lodge hotel in Belfast tomorrow evening (Tuesday 18 May) at 6.30pm. The event is open to the public, so if you’re in the area and have any interest in technology and its application to stroke rehabilitation therapy, or alternatively have nothing better planned, come along (and say hi!). :)

Edit: I’ve uploaded last night’s presentation to SlideShare:

The talk mainly focused on our current work with webcam games (background had been covered by a colleague in a previous presentation), as well as the Wii remote, which members of the IET had shown interest in.

On Tuesday I presented our group’s work on stroke rehabilitation games at VS Games ’09 (First International IEEE Conference in Serious Games and Virtual Worlds).  I was pretty nervous considering it was my first public conference presentation but it went alright in the end.  More surprisingly, however, is that we won best paper at the conference!  Hurrah!

I’ve included the presentation below for anyone that may be interested in viewing it.  It can also be downloaded from the SlideShare page.  Hopefully in the next few days I will also be able to add the audio of the presentation to this.