State of Play V: Speakers' Bios

  ERIK MALCOLM CHAMPION
Assistant Professor
Digital Media and Design, Business and Humanities
University of New South Wales, Singapore

 

Profile

Erik teaches and researches game design and virtual worlds for UNSW Asia. He is particularly interested in the creation and evaluation of virtual place, cultural presence, and meaningful interaction in virtual heritage environments using game engines. He has also supervised projects in spatial projection, physical computing, biofeedback, virtual tourism, AI, and archaeological visualization. He has worked for DEC, Compaq, and Hansen Technology and taught multimedia and games design in the Information Environments program at the University of Queensland, Australia, and User Experience Design at Swinburne University of Technology. He is editor or co-editor of special issues of Techné, Leonardo, and the International Journal of Heritage Studies, and has degrees in architecture and philosophy.

Recent Publiations
  • Evaluating Cultural Learning in Virtual Environments. PhD thesis, University of Melbourne (2006). (pdf)