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Hi there! My name is Ferran and I love to have fun making people have fun.

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I design stuff to help people interact playfully with one another. Fun really makes the difference! I'm passionate about the role future technologies will play in our lives. I am convinced that such tech cannot be designed in the lab, and that's why I embrace a participatory approach to research. I work towards a future in which tech makes our lives easier, yes!, but also happier and more social.

I’m an interaction designer and researcher from Barcelona.
I do work at the intersection of design, technology and play.

RESEARCH THROUGH DESIGN

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

PLAY(FUL) DESIGN

HUMAN-FOOD INTERACTION

DESIGN METHODS

Work experience

El Celler de Can Roca

Research intern

University of Southern Denmark

Makerspace technician

Institut de Ciències Fotòniques

Game developer

Cookie Box

Junior gamification consultant

TICdate Festival

Co-organizer

Teaching

Kolding Designskolen

Guest teacher

IEBS Online School

Faculty member

AURA

2016

Product Design

Smart Lighting

Seamless Interaction

AUGMENTED STORYBOARDING

2016

Interaction Design

Augmented Reality

Gestural Interfaces

THE MAD HATTER’S DINNER PARTY

2016

Gastronomy

Interaction Design

Game Design

THE MAGIC PLATE

2016

Gastronomy

Product Design

Tangible Interaction

A SCOOP OF FOREST

2016

Food Design

Gameful Design

Product Design

COLOR-CHANGING FOOD

2016

Biohacking

Interaction Design

Electronics

DOODLEY

2016

Interaction Design

Social Computing

Healthcare

LET IT GO

2015

Wearable Computing

Soft Robotics

Pervasive Technology

COLOR-BASED INTERACTION

2015

Interaction Design

Computer Vision

Embodied Design

COOLHUNTER LAMP

2015

Interaction Design

Computer Vision

Product Design

FEELINGSPECTOR

2015

Interaction Design

Computer Vision

Affective Computing

MOODSIC

2015

Interaction Design

Musical Interfaces

Computer Vision

INTRAFACE

2015

GUI Design

THE HUMAN SENSING LAB WEBSITE

2014

Web Design

THE SQUAD OF FUN

2014

Gamification

Education

E-learning

WHAT IF YOU WERE IN...

2013

Interaction Design

Gamification

Embodied Design

TRAININGLAB

2013

Game Design

Education

Board Game

ALGORHYTMS

2013

Interaction Design

Musical Interfaces

Product Design

SEEKER [H2]

2012

Game Design

Electronics

Art

INUND'AR

2011

Interaction Design

Augmented Reality

Mechatronics

DIY 3D PRINT

2011

Mechanical Engineering

Electronics

DIY

HEY, YOU! BE AN ARTIST!

2010

Interaction Design

Kinect

Gestural Interface

I’ve written a couple of things you might enjoy reading... or not.

2019

Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Samvid Jhaveri, Rosa Lutz, Katherine Isbister and Danielle Wilde. 2019. Making Sense of Human-Food Interaction. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300908
Ella Dagan, Elena Márquez Segura, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Miguel Flores, and Katherine Isbister. 2019. Designing ‘True Colors’: A Social Wearable that Affords Vulnerability. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300263
Danielle Wilde and Ferran Altarriba Bertran. 2019. From playing with food to participatory research through design: a designerly move towards more playful gastronomy. In International Journal of Food Design, Volume 4.

2018

Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Samvid Jhaveri, Rosa Lutz, Katherine Isbister and Danielle Wilde. 2018. Visualising the landscape of Human-Food Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2018), June 9-13, 2018, Hong Kong.
Petr Slovák, Nikki Theofanopoulou, Alessia Cecchet, Peter Cottrell, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Ella Dagan, Julian Childs, and Katherine Isbister. 2018. "I just let him cry...: Designing Socio-Technical Interventions in Families to Prevent Mental Health Disorders. In Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 2, CSCW, Article 160 (November 2018), 34 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3274429
Erica Vannucci, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Justin Marshall and Danielle Wilde. 2018. Handmaking food ideals: crafting the design of future food-related technologies. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2018), June 9-13, 2018, Hong Kong.
Ferran Altarriba Bertran and Danielle Wilde. 2018. Playing with food: reconfiguring the gastronomic experience through play. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Food Design and Food Studies (EFOOD 2017), October 19-21, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.

2017

Ferran Altarriba, Stefano Eugenio Lanzani, Ana Torralba, and Mathias Funk. 2017. The Grumpy Bin: Reducing Food Waste Through Playful Social Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 90-94. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079125
Ferran Altarriba Bertran. 2017. Playing with food: enriching and diversifying the gastronomic experience through play. MSc thesis. University of Southern Denmark.
Ferran Altarriba Bertran. 2017. The interactive role of the diner in gastronomic restaurants: spectator, actor or co-creator?. In Proceedings of the 2017 Student Interaction Design and Research conference (SIDeR '17). Delft, Netherlands.

2016

Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Mirzel Avdić, Asbjørn Grangaard Erlendsson, Lennart Schlüter and Thomas Neville Valkær. 2016. “The Mad Hatter’s Dinner Party”: Enhancing the Dining Experience Through the Use of Game Thinking. In Proceedings of the 2016 Student Interaction Design and Research conference (SIDeR '16). Malmö, Sweden.
Ferran Altarriba Bertran. 2016. The Coolhunter Lamp. In Proceedings of the 2016 Student Interaction Design and Research conference (SIDeR '16). Malmö, Sweden.
Ferran Altarriba Bertran. 2016. From Game Design to Gastronomy (and vice versa): we shall not play around with food… or shall we?. Revista Bit y Aparte, n. 4.

2014

Ferran Altarriba Bertran and Oscar García Pañella. 2014. Improvisación o Genialidad: la ciencia tras un ARG como Google Maps Pokémon Challenge. Revista Bit y Aparte, n. 1.
Ferran Altarriba Bertran. 2014. The Revolution of Fun: a study of applied games and fun as highly powerful tools to achieve goals in non-entertainment contexts through motivation and engagement. BA (Hons) dissertation. University of Lincoln.

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