Erik Champion
Associate Professor, Research and Postgraduate Studies Director
Auckland School of Design
College of Creative Arts
Massey University Auckland Campus
Private Bag 102 904, North Shore Mail Centre, Auckland New Zealand
Tel +64 9 414 0800 ext 41165
Fax +64 9 4140840
Erik Champion is an Associate Professor and Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at the Auckland School of Design, Massey University. His most recent supervising and research was on Mac OS-based game design, intermedia/hybrid tactile panorama tables, biofeedback for immersive gameplay, evaluation critique of Virtual Heritage, thematic interfaces, history-based game environments, and warping for projection onto 3D surfaces. A summary of this work will be presented in the Educators’ session at SIGGRAPH Asia in December.
Grants and awards include an Australian Competitive Staff Scholarship to WWDC 2008, Massey University International Visitor Research Fund in 2008 (group application), UNSW Asia Group Seed Funding Scheme 2007 (group application), University of Queensland New Staff Research Grant in 2006, Dean’s Prize for best-published postgraduate work in 2005, selection of work for exhibition at Supercomputing 2004, and best paper in Virtual Heritage at VSMM 2003.
He was an invited speaker at Learning in Cyberspace 2006, State of Play V, Digital Applications of Cultural Heritage 2007, and VSMM 2007, and edited or co-edited special issues of Techné, International Journal of Heritage Studies, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac. He is a member of ICIP ICOMOS, a CAADRIA paper selection committee member, and on the editorial boards of Games & Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, Gaming and Virtual Worlds, International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (Book Review Co-editor), and Loading.
Erik taught multimedia and games design in the Information Environments program at the University of Queensland, Australia. He previously worked as lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology in Multimedia and User Experience Design. He has also worked for DEC, Compaq, and Hansen. His PhD (part of a Lonely Planet/ARC research grant) evaluated ‘cultural presence’ in virtual heritage environments using game-style interaction. Erik also has a Masters in philosophy and a Masters in architectural history and theory, with publications in aesthetics, architectural theory, Nordic architectural history, and theories of the sublime.