Bio:
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller is a Professor of Future Interfaces at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia where he directs the award-winning Exertion Games Lab. Previously, he was at RMIT University, Stanford, University of Melbourne, Microsoft Research, MIT Media Lab, Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Labs, Xerox Parc, and Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). Floyd’s innovations were experienced by over 20,000 users across 3 continents and were featured on the BBC, ABC, Discovery Science Channel and Wired magazine.
His contributions have been recognized by others, for example, he is an inaugural honouree of the Australian Design Centre’s Design Honours. His work has been shortlisted for the European Innovation Games Award (next to Nintendo's WiiFit), has received a Nokia Mindtrek Ubimedia Award, and was commissioned by Wired's Nextfest.
He has written over 300 publications, mostly in the premier publication outlets in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) such as CHI, CHI PLAY, DIS, TEI, Ubicomp (IMWUT), UIST as well as ToCHI and IJHCS. He was in the Top 100 Most Productive HCI researcher list and received 10 “Best Paper Honorable Mentions Top 5%” (5x CHI, 3x DIS, 2x CHI PLAY) as well as 2 “Best Paper Top 1%” at CHI PLAY and CHI. He was selected to be Associate Editor for tier A journals such as Elsevier’s IJHCS (International Journal of Human-Computer Studies) and ACM’s (Association for Computing Machinery) IMWUT (Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies). He is co-Editor in Chief for “Now Publisher’s Foundations and Trends in HCI” that “publishes 50-100 page monographs written by research leaders”. Floyd is also a member of the CHI Academy, an honorary group of leaders “who have made substantial contributions to the field of HCI”.
Floyd co-established the first ACM CHI Sub-Committee on “Games and Play” as well as the CHI PLAY conference series. He was selected to be General co-Chair for CHI PLAY’18 and then CHI’20, becoming the first Australian-based researcher to spearhead the highest-ranked publication outlet in HCI. He is General co-Chair for CHI’24.
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Experiencing the body as play
To date interacting with computing mostly means focusing outwards, on the environment, rather than inwards, into the human body. However, bodily creativity such as expressed in sports...
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