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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 Catalonia.
I do work at the intersection of play, design, and technology.

RESEARCH THROUGH DESIGN

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

PLAY(FUL) DESIGN

HUMAN-FOOD INTERACTION

CO-DESIGN METHODS

Education and research

PhD in Computational Media

Social Emotional Technology Lab @ UC Santa Cruz

MSc in IT Product Design

University of Southern Denmark *exchange @ TU/e Eindhoven

BA (Hons) in Interaction Design

University of Lincoln *exchange @ Carnegie Mellon University

Undergraduate in Audiovisuals and Multimedia

ERAM - Universitat de Girona *exchange @ Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg

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 lecturer

IEBS Online School

Faculty member

PLAYFUL SMART CITY FUTURES

2021

Playful Design

Smart Cities

Speculative Design

PLAY-FOOD TECHNOLOGY FUTURES

2020

Playful Design

Human-Food Interaction

Speculative Design

TRUE COLORS

2019

Interaction Design

Wearable Design

Pro-Social Technology

EATING WITH DATA

2017

Data Physicalization

Human-Food Interaction

Mixed Reality

THE GRUMPY BIN

2017

Playful Design

Human-Food Interaction

Speculative Design

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

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

INUND'AR

2011

Interaction Design

Augmented Reality

Mechatronics

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

2022

Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Alexandra Pometko, Muskan Gupta, Lauren Wilcox, Reeta Banerjee, and Katherine Isbister. 2022. Designerly Tele-Experiences: a New Approach to Remote Yet Still Situated Co-Design. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. Just Accepted (December 2021). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3506698
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Alexandra Pometko, Muskan Gupta, Lauren Wilcox, Reeta Banerjee, and Katherine Isbister. 2021. Co-Imagining the Future of Playable Cities: A Bottom-Up, Multi-Stakeholder Speculative Inquiry into the Playful Potential of Urban Technology. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501860
Elzelinde Van Doleweerd, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, and Miguel Bruns Alonso. 2022. Incorporating Shape-Changing Food Materials into Everyday Culinary Practices: Guidelines Informed by Participatory Sessions with Chefs Involving Edible pH-responsive Origami. In Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction(TEI ’22), February 13–16, 2022, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3490149.3501315
Katherine Isbister, Peter Cottrell, Alessia Cecchet, Ella Dagan, Nikki Theofanopoulou, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Aaron J. Horowitz, Nick Mead, Joel B. Schwarz, Petr Slovak. 2022. Design not Lost in Translation: A Case Study of an Intimate-Space Socially Assistive Robot for Emotion Regulation. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 29, 4, Article 32 (February 2022), 36 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491083
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Oğuz ’Oz’ Buruk, and Juho Hamari. 2022. From-The-Wild: Towards Co-Designing For and From Nature. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519811
Samuli Laato, Daniel Fernández Galeote, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, and Juho Hamari. 2022. Balancing the augmented experience: Design tensions in the location-based game Pikmin Bloom. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts CHI ’22 EA), April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519785
Jialin Deng, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Lining Yao, Marianna Obrist, Koya Narumi, Humphrey Yang, Mako Miyatake, and Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller. 2022. Mapping FoodHCI Futures. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516401

2021

Ferran Altarriba Bertran. 2021. Situated Play Design: Co-Creating the Playful Potential of Future Technology. Doctoral dissertation. University of California Santa Cruz.
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Alexandra Pometko, Muskan Gupta, Lauren Wilcox, Reeta Banerjee, and Katherine Isbister. 2021. The Playful Potential of Shared Mealtime: a speculative catalog of playful technologies for day-to-day social eating experiences. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 5, CHI PLAY, Article 267 (September 2021), 26 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3474694
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Jared Duval, Laura Bisbe Armengol, Ivy Chen, Victor Dong, Binaisha Dastoor, Adrià Altarriba Bertran, and Katherine Isbister. 2021. A Catalog of Speculative Playful Urban Technology Ideas: Exploring the Playful Potential of Smart Cities. In Academic Mindtrek 2021 (Mindtrek ’21), June 01–03, 2021, Tampere/Virtual, Finland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3464327.3464374
Alexandra Pometko, Ella Dagan, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, and Katherine Isbister. 2021. Drawing From Social Media to Inspire Increasingly Playful and Social Drone Futures. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS'21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 697–706. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462020
Jared Duval, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Siying Chen, Melissa Chu, Divya Subramonian, Austin Wang, Geoffrey Xiang, Sri Kurniawan, and Katherine Isbister. 2021. Chasing Play on TikTok from Populations with Disabilities to Inspire Playful and Inclusive Technology Design. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 492, 1–15. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445303
Saumya Gupta, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Oðuz 'Oz' Buruk, Sara Milkes Milkes Espinosa, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, and Minerva Wu. 2021. Exploring Food based Interactive, Multi-Sensory, and Tangible Storytelling Experiences. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS'21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 651–665. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462006
Danielle Wilde*, Markéta Dolejšová*, Sjef van Gaalen, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Hilary Davis, and Paul Graham Raven. 2021. Troubling the Impact of Food Future Imaginaries. Proceedings of the 2021 Nordic Design Research Conference, No 9 (2021): NORDES 2021: MATTERS OF SCALE, ISSN 1604-9705, pp.115-124. *co-first authors
Elena Márquez Segura, Laia Turmo Vidal, Annika Waern, Jared Duval, Luis Parrilla Bel, and Ferran Altarriba Bertran. 2021. Physical Warm-up Games: Exploring the Potential of Play and Technology Design. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 440, 1–14. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445163
Markéta Dolejšová, Cristina Ampatzidou, Lara Houston, Ann Light, Andrea Botero, Jaz Choi, Danielle Wilde, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Hilary Davis, Felipe Gonzales Gonzales Gil, and Ruth Catlow. 2021. Designing for Transformative Futures: Creative Practice, Social Change and Climate Emergency. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 3, 1–9. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3450741.3465242
Yoram Chisik, Marie-Monique Schaper, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Ruxandra Lupu, Laetitia Barbu, Laia Turmo Vidal, Erik Nilsen, Saumya Gupta, and Cristina Valero. 2021. Through the Zoom Glass: Drawing Design Inspi- ration from Mediated Playful Interactions with Food and Child Personas. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play,(CHI PLAY ’21), October 18–21, 2021, Virtual Event, Austria. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450337.3483452
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Soomin Kim, Minsuk Chang, Ella Dagan, Jared Duval, Katherine Isbister, and Laia Turmo Turmo Vidal. 2021. Social Media as a Design and Research Site in HCI: Mapping Out Opportunities and Envisioning Future Uses. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 120, 1–5. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441311
Jialin Deng, Yan Wang, Carlos Velasco, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Rob Comber, Marianna Obrist, Katherine Isbister, Charles Spence, and Florian 'Floyd' Mueller. 2021. The Future of Human-Food Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 100, 1–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441312

2020

Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Elena Márquez Segura and Katherine Isbister. 2020. Technology for Situated and Emergent Play: A Bridging Concept and Design Agenda. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376859
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Jared Duval, Elena Márquez Segura, Laia Turmo Vidal, Yoram Chisik, Marina Juanet Casulleras, Oscar Garcia Pañella, Katherine Isbister and Danielle Wilde. 2020. Chasing Play Potentials in Food Culture: Learning from Traditions to Inspire Future Human-Food Interaction Design. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 979–991. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395575
Markéta Dolejšová*, Danielle Wilde*, Ferran Altarriba Bertran and Hilary Davis. 2020. Disrupting (More-than-) Human-Food Interaction: Experimental Design, Tangibles and Food-Tech Futures. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 993–1004. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395437 (* joint first-authors)
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Rosa Lutz and Katherine Isbister. 2020. Where Interaction Design Meets Gastronomy: Crafting Increasingly Playful and Interactive Eating Experiences. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Food Design and Food Studies, Experiencing Food, Designing Sustainable and Social Practices (EFOOD'19). November 28–30, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.
Markéta Dolejšová, Hilary Davis, Ferran Altarriba Bertran and Danielle Wilde. 2020. Feeding the Futures of Human-Food Interaction. interactions 27, 5 . (September - October 2020), 34–39. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3414471 Also accessible on this blog post
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Laia Turmo Vidal, Ella Dagan, Elena Márquez Segura, Jared Duval, and Katherine Isbister. 2020. Chasing Play with Instagram: How Can We Capture Mundane Play Potentials to Inspire Interaction Design?. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382913
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Ahmet Börütecene, Oguz 'Oz' Buruk, Mattia Thibault, and Katherine Isbister. 2020. MESMER: Towards a Playful Tangible Tool for Non-Verbal Multi-Stakeholder Conversations. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 168–172. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3383668.3419872
Hilary Davis, Danielle Wilde, Ferran Altarriba Bertran and Markéta Dolejšová. 2020. Fantastic(e)ating Food Futures: Reimagining Human Food Interaction. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’ 20 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 377–380. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395906
Yoram Chisik, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Marie-Monique Schaper, Elena Márquez Segura, Laia Turmo Vidal and Danielle Wilde. 2020. Chasing Play Potentials in Food Culture: Embracing Children’s Perspectives. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Interaction Design for Children conference (IDC’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.

2019

Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Elena Márquez Segura, Jared Duval and Katherine Isbister. 2019. Chasing Play Potentials: Towards an Increasingly Situated and Emergent Approach to Everyday Play Design. In Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1001-1015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322325
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 (* joint first-authors)
Ferran Altarriba Bertran*, Danielle Wilde*, Ernő Berezvay and Katherine Isbister. 2019. Playful Human-Food Interaction Research: State of the Art and Future Directions. In Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI Play '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1001-1015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322325 (* joint first-authors)
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Elena Márquez Segura, Jared Duval and Katherine Isbister. 2019. Designing for Play that Permeates Everyday Life: Towards New Methods for Situated Play Design. In In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019 (HTTF 2019), November 19–20, 2019, Nottingham, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3363384.3363400
Danielle Wilde and Ferran Altarriba Bertran. 2019. Participatory Research through Gastronomy Design: A designerly move towards more playful gastronomy. International Journal of Food Design, 4(1), 3-37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfd.4.1.3_1
Ella Dagan, Elena Márquez Segura, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Miguel Flores, Robb Mitchell and Katherine Isbister. 2019. Design Framework for Social Wearables. In Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1001-1015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322291
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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300263
Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Danielle Wilde, Elena Márquez Segura, Oscar Garcia Pañella, Laia Badal León, Jared Duval and Katherine Isbister. 2019. Chasing Play Potentials in Food Culture to Inspire Technology Design. In Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts (CHI PLAY '19 Extended Abstracts). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322325
Markéta Dolejsova, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Hilary Davis and Danielle Wilde. 2019. Crafting and Tasting Issues in Everyday Human-Food Interactions. In In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (DIS '19 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 361-364. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3319994

2018

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.
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
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 '18 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 243-248. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3205443
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 '18 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 419-422. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3197403

2017

Ferran Altarriba Bertran, 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. Del Game Design a la Gastronomía (y viceversa): con la comida no se juega... o sí?. 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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