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'''Annika Waern''' is a [[larp designer]] and organiser, and game studies academic, from Sweden. During 2004-2008, she was the coordinator of the EU project IPerG, known for its groundbreaking investigations into pervasive games. Her academic publications primarily focus on the design and study pervasive larp productions such as [[Prosopopeia|Momentum]] and [[Conspiracy for Good]]. As a designer, she has also been a contributor to  productions exploring novel formats, such as the pervasive interactive performance[[Interference]] and the larp musical [[Cabaret]], but also designed several smaller scenarios, of which some have been featured at [[Prolog]], Sandcon, and [[Stockholm Scenario Festival|Stockholm Scenario festival]]. Annika works as professor in Human Computer Interaction at Uppsala University, Sweden.   
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'''Annika Waern''' is a [[larp designer]] and organiser, and game studies academic, from Sweden. During 2004-2008, she was the coordinator of the EU project IPerG, known for its groundbreaking investigations into pervasive games. Her academic publications primarily focus on the design and study pervasive larp productions such as [[Prosopopeia|Momentum]] and [[Conspiracy for Good]]. As a designer, she has also been a contributor to  productions exploring novel formats, such as the pervasive interactive performance [[Interference]] and the larp musical [[Cabaret]], but also designed several smaller scenarios, of which some have been featured at [[Prolog]], Sandcon, and [[Stockholm Scenario Festival|Stockholm Scenario festival]]. Annika works as professor in Human Computer Interaction at Uppsala University, Sweden.   
  
=== Lectures ===
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===Lectures===
 
Keynote Speaker, CHIPlay 2016. ‘[https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2967934.2967935 Play, participation and empowerment: Design strategies and dilemmas].’
 
Keynote Speaker, CHIPlay 2016. ‘[https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2967934.2967935 Play, participation and empowerment: Design strategies and dilemmas].’
  
 
Invited speaker, ‘Activating play’ symposium, University of Eindhoven, September 2015. Presented topic: “Engaging with structure”.
 
Invited speaker, ‘Activating play’ symposium, University of Eindhoven, September 2015. Presented topic: “Engaging with structure”.
  
=== Short Talks ===
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Inspirational talk and workshop, Knudepunkt 2015, Ringe, Denmark, March. ''Your larp sucked! How to get meaningful feedback from players.''
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===Short Talks===
 
Invited Speaker, Pyrkon Fan Festival 2017, Poznan, Poland
 
Invited Speaker, Pyrkon Fan Festival 2017, Poznan, Poland
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=== Editor ===
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Nordic Larp talks, Oslo, Norway, April 2013. ''How can we know what actually happened in a larp''.  <nowiki>http://nordiclarptalks.org/how-can-we-know-what-actually-happened-in-a-larp/</nowiki>
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===Editor===
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Waern, A. and Axner, J. Shuffling the deck: The Knutpunkt 20918 book. ETC Press, February 2018.
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Montola, M., Stenroos J. and Waern, A. Pervasive Games: Theory and design. Morgan Kaufmann, June 2009.
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===Author===
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''Selected writings on larp.''
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Waern, A., Rajkowska, P., Johansson, K. B., Back, J., Spence, J., & Løvlie, A. S. (2020, April). Sensitizing Scenarios: Sensitizing Designer Teams to Theory. In ''Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems'' (pp. 1-13).
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Waern, A. (2020) How to Gather Feedback from Players. In [[Larp Design: Creating Role-play Experiences]].
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Márquez Segura, E., Spiel, K., Johansson, K., Back, J., Toups, Z.O., Hammer, J., Waern, A., Tanenbaum, J. and Isbister, K., 2019, June. Larping (Live Action Role Playing) as an Embodied Design Research Method. In ''Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion'' (pp. 389-392). ACM.
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Segura, Elena Márquez, Katherine Isbister, Jon Back, and Annika Waern. "Design, appropriation, and use of technology in larps." In ''Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games'', p. 53. ACM, 2017.
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Annika Waern and Jaakko Stenros (2015) Trust and intimate Interaction in nordic larp. Embarrassing Interactions workshop, CHI’15, Seoul, Korea.
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Back, J. and Waern, A. (2013) We are two strong women” – Designing Empowerment in a Pervasive Game. Proceedings of DIGRA 2013. Atlanta, Georgia.
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Waern, Annika, Montola, Markus and Stenros, Jaakko. The Three-Sixty Illusion: Designing For Immersion in Pervasive Games. Proceedings of CHI’09: International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction. Boston, MA April 2009. Pages 1549-1558.
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Montola,M., Stenros, J., and Waern, A. (2009). Philosophies and strategies of pervasive larp design. Book of Knudepunkt 2009. Pages 198-222.
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Jonsson, Staffan and Waern, Annika. (2008) The art of game-mastering pervasive games. In proceedings of ACE’08: The international conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Yokohama, Japan, December 2008. Pages 224-231.
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Bichard, John Paul and Waern Annika. (2008) Pervasive Play, Immersion and Story: designing Interference. In proceedings of DIMEA '08: the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, Athens, Greece, September 2008. Pages 10-17.
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Stenros, J., Montola, M. & Waern, A. (2007): Post Mortem Interaction. Social Play Modes in Momentum. In Donnis, J., Gade, M. & Thorup, L. (2007): Lifelike Copenhagen, Projektgruppen KP07. The book for Knudepunkt 2007. Pages 131-145.
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Jonsson, S., Waern, A., Montola, M. & Stenros, J. (2007) Game Mastering a Pervasive Larp. Experiences from Momentum. In Magerkurth, Carsten & al. (2007): Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Gaming Applications PerGames 2007, June 11.-12. Salzburg, Austria. Pages 31-39.
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Stenros, J., Montola, M., Waern, A. & Jonsson, S'''.''' (2007): ''Play it for Real: Sustained Seamless Life/Game Merger in Momentum.'' In Baba, Akira (ed.) (2007): Proceedings of DiGRA 2007 Situated Play conference, september 24.-28, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Pages 121-129.
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Jonsson, Staffan and Montola, Markus and Waern, Annika and Ericsson, Martin (2006) Prosopopeia: Experiences from a Pervasive Larp. In: ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, June 2006, Hollywood, California, USA.
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===Larp Design===
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"A thousand dreams" (2020) - Postal mail larp for up to 24 players.
  
=== Author ===
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"Return to Innocence" (2019) - Scenario for up to 30 players co-designed with Celia Pearce. Featured at Sandcon 2019.
  
=== Larps ===
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"The Race" (2019) - Educational scenario for 4-8 players. Co-designed with Malcolm Campbell, and Mia Häggström. Available at https://gifting.digital/the-space-race/
Interference (2008)
 
  
The Crash (2007) - Co-designed with John-Paul Bichard
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"The Gift" (2019) - Educational scenario for 4-8 players. Available at https://gifting.digital/the-gift/
  
Cabaret - the larp musical (2013-2017)
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"The Object" (2019) - Educational scenario for 4-9 players. Co-designed with Jon Back and Karin Johansson. Available at https://gifting.digital/the-object-3/
  
"Return to Innocence" (2019) - co-designed with Celia Pearce
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"You Want it Darker" (2017) - Scenario for 4-8 players. Featured at Stockholm Scenario Festival 2017. Available at https://scenariofestival.se/archive/scenarios-2017/you-want-it-darker/
  
"The Race" - an
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[[Cabaret]] - the larp musical (2013-2017)
  
"The Gift"
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"Revolver" (2014) - Featured at Prolog.
  
"You Want it Darker" - Featured at Stockholm Scenario Festival 2017
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"Codename Heroes" (2011-2012) - Pervasive interactive experience. Co-designed with Jon Back and co-organised with [[Understockholm]].
  
"Revolver" - Featured at Prolog 2014
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[[Interference]] (2008)
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==

Revision as of 19:46, 25 August 2020

Annika Waern
Annika Waern.png
Born1960
ResidenceUppsala
NationalitySweden
OccupationUniversity Professor
HonoursDiGRA Scholar and HEVGA Fellow.
Websiteannikawaern.wordpress.com

Annika Waern is a larp designer and organiser, and game studies academic, from Sweden. During 2004-2008, she was the coordinator of the EU project IPerG, known for its groundbreaking investigations into pervasive games. Her academic publications primarily focus on the design and study pervasive larp productions such as Momentum and Conspiracy for Good. As a designer, she has also been a contributor to productions exploring novel formats, such as the pervasive interactive performance Interference and the larp musical Cabaret, but also designed several smaller scenarios, of which some have been featured at Prolog, Sandcon, and Stockholm Scenario festival. Annika works as professor in Human Computer Interaction at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Lectures

Keynote Speaker, CHIPlay 2016. ‘Play, participation and empowerment: Design strategies and dilemmas.’

Invited speaker, ‘Activating play’ symposium, University of Eindhoven, September 2015. Presented topic: “Engaging with structure”.

Inspirational talk and workshop, Knudepunkt 2015, Ringe, Denmark, March. Your larp sucked! How to get meaningful feedback from players.

Short Talks

Invited Speaker, Pyrkon Fan Festival 2017, Poznan, Poland

Nordic Larp talks, Oslo, Norway, April 2013. How can we know what actually happened in a larp.  http://nordiclarptalks.org/how-can-we-know-what-actually-happened-in-a-larp/

Editor

Waern, A. and Axner, J. Shuffling the deck: The Knutpunkt 20918 book. ETC Press, February 2018.

Montola, M., Stenroos J. and Waern, A. Pervasive Games: Theory and design. Morgan Kaufmann, June 2009.

Author

Selected writings on larp.

Waern, A., Rajkowska, P., Johansson, K. B., Back, J., Spence, J., & Løvlie, A. S. (2020, April). Sensitizing Scenarios: Sensitizing Designer Teams to Theory. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).

Waern, A. (2020) How to Gather Feedback from Players. In Larp Design: Creating Role-play Experiences.

Márquez Segura, E., Spiel, K., Johansson, K., Back, J., Toups, Z.O., Hammer, J., Waern, A., Tanenbaum, J. and Isbister, K., 2019, June. Larping (Live Action Role Playing) as an Embodied Design Research Method. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (pp. 389-392). ACM.

Segura, Elena Márquez, Katherine Isbister, Jon Back, and Annika Waern. "Design, appropriation, and use of technology in larps." In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, p. 53. ACM, 2017.

Annika Waern and Jaakko Stenros (2015) Trust and intimate Interaction in nordic larp. Embarrassing Interactions workshop, CHI’15, Seoul, Korea.

Back, J. and Waern, A. (2013) We are two strong women” – Designing Empowerment in a Pervasive Game. Proceedings of DIGRA 2013. Atlanta, Georgia.

Waern, Annika, Montola, Markus and Stenros, Jaakko. The Three-Sixty Illusion: Designing For Immersion in Pervasive Games. Proceedings of CHI’09: International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction. Boston, MA April 2009. Pages 1549-1558.

Montola,M., Stenros, J., and Waern, A. (2009). Philosophies and strategies of pervasive larp design. Book of Knudepunkt 2009. Pages 198-222.

Jonsson, Staffan and Waern, Annika. (2008) The art of game-mastering pervasive games. In proceedings of ACE’08: The international conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Yokohama, Japan, December 2008. Pages 224-231.

Bichard, John Paul and Waern Annika. (2008) Pervasive Play, Immersion and Story: designing Interference. In proceedings of DIMEA '08: the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, Athens, Greece, September 2008. Pages 10-17.

Stenros, J., Montola, M. & Waern, A. (2007): Post Mortem Interaction. Social Play Modes in Momentum. In Donnis, J., Gade, M. & Thorup, L. (2007): Lifelike Copenhagen, Projektgruppen KP07. The book for Knudepunkt 2007. Pages 131-145.

Jonsson, S., Waern, A., Montola, M. & Stenros, J. (2007) Game Mastering a Pervasive Larp. Experiences from Momentum. In Magerkurth, Carsten & al. (2007): Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Gaming Applications PerGames 2007, June 11.-12. Salzburg, Austria. Pages 31-39.

Stenros, J., Montola, M., Waern, A. & Jonsson, S. (2007): Play it for Real: Sustained Seamless Life/Game Merger in Momentum. In Baba, Akira (ed.) (2007): Proceedings of DiGRA 2007 Situated Play conference, september 24.-28, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Pages 121-129.

Jonsson, Staffan and Montola, Markus and Waern, Annika and Ericsson, Martin (2006) Prosopopeia: Experiences from a Pervasive Larp. In: ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, June 2006, Hollywood, California, USA.

Larp Design

"A thousand dreams" (2020) - Postal mail larp for up to 24 players.

"Return to Innocence" (2019) - Scenario for up to 30 players co-designed with Celia Pearce. Featured at Sandcon 2019.

"The Race" (2019) - Educational scenario for 4-8 players. Co-designed with Malcolm Campbell, and Mia Häggström. Available at https://gifting.digital/the-space-race/

"The Gift" (2019) - Educational scenario for 4-8 players. Available at https://gifting.digital/the-gift/

"The Object" (2019) - Educational scenario for 4-9 players. Co-designed with Jon Back and Karin Johansson. Available at https://gifting.digital/the-object-3/

"You Want it Darker" (2017) - Scenario for 4-8 players. Featured at Stockholm Scenario Festival 2017. Available at https://scenariofestival.se/archive/scenarios-2017/you-want-it-darker/

Cabaret - the larp musical (2013-2017)

"Revolver" (2014) - Featured at Prolog.

"Codename Heroes" (2011-2012) - Pervasive interactive experience. Co-designed with Jon Back and co-organised with Understockholm.

Interference (2008)

External Links