Ferran Altarriba Bertran

Ferran's research investigates how to design playful technology that enriches the socio-emotional texture of people’s day to day. His work has been published at top-tier international academic venues in Human-Computer Interaction and Design Research, such as: CHI, DIS, CHI Play, TEI, CSCW, ToCHI, Nordes, or the IJFD.

Areas of expertise: Interaction Design, Play Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Design Research, Co-Design Methods, Participatory Innovation, Speculative Design, Human-Food Interaction, Food Design

• Laato, Samuli and Fernandez Galeote, Daniel and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Papangelis, Konstantinos and Hamari, Juho 2023 How Location-based Gaming Affects Players' Nature and Forest Experiences Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Article Revista
• Deng, Jialin and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Obrist, Marianna and Wang, Yan and Velasco, Carlos and others 2023 Sketching the future of human-food interaction: Emerging directions for future practice Elsevier International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science Article Revista
• van Doleweerd, Elzelinde and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Bruns, Miguel 2022 Incorporating Shape-Changing Food Materials Into Everyday Culinary Practices: Guidelines Informed by Participatory Sessions with Chefs Involving Edible pH-responsive Origami Structures ACM Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (p.1–14) Paper
• Shakeri, Gözel and Jung, Frederike and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Friday, Adrian and Fernández Galeote, Daniel 2022 Eco-Joy: Imagining Sustainable and Joyful Food Eco-label Futures ACM Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (p.1–7) Paper
• Laato, Samuli and Fernández Galeote, Daniel and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Hamari, Juho 2022 Balancing the Augmented Experience: Design Tensions in the Location-based Game Pikmin Bloom ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (p.1–7) Paper
• Isbister, Katherine and Cottrell, Peter and Cecchet, Alessia and Dagan, Ella and Theofanopoulou, Nikki and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Horowitz, Aaron J and Mead, Nick and Schwartz, Joel B and Slovak, Petr 2022 Design (Not) Lost in Translation: A Case Study of an Intimate-Space Socially Assistive “Robot” for Emotion Regulation ACM New York, NY ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) (p.1–36) Article Revista
• Gomes, Allan and Light, Ann and Lychagina, Anna and Ståhl, Åsa and Wilde, Danielle and Altarriba, Ferran and Davis, Hilary and Karaush, Iryna and Lindström, Kristina and Houston, Lara and others 2022 More-Than-Human Food Futures Cookbook—A Feeding Food Futures Initiative ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2020 conference Paper
• Dolejšová, Markéta and Wilde, Danielle and Davis, Hilary and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba 2022 Feasting on Participatory Methodologies for Regenerative Food Transitions ACM Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 2 (PDC '22) Article Revista
• Deng, Jialin and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Yao, Lining and Obrist, Marianna and Narumi, Koya and Yang, Humphrey and Miyatake, Mako and Mueller, Florian 2022 Mapping FoodHCI Futures ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (p.1–5) Paper
• Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Pometko, Alexandra and Gupta, Muskan and Wilcox, Lauren and Banerjee, Reeta and Isbister, Katherine 2022 Designerly Tele-Experiences: A New Approach to Remote Yet Still Situated Co-Design ACM New York, NY ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Article Revista
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Buruk, O\dhuz'Oz' and Hamari, Juho 2022 From-The-Wild: Towards Co-Designing For and From Nature ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (p.1–7) Paper
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Bisbe Armengol, Laura and Cooke, Cameron and Chen, Ivy and Dong, Victor and Dastoor, Binaisha and Tadano, Kelsea and Dean, Fyez and Wang, Jessalyn and Altarriba Bertran, Adrià and others 2022 Co-Imagining the Future of Playable Cities: A Bottom-Up, Multi-Stakeholder Speculative Inquiry into the Playful Potential of Urban Technology ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p.1–19) Paper
• Alhasan, Khawla and Ceccaldi, Eleonora and Covaci, Alexandra and Mancini, Maurizio and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Huisman, Gijs and Lemke, Mailin and Ang, Chee Siang 2022 The Playful Potential of Digital Commensality: Learning from Spontaneous Playful Remote Dining Practices ACM New York, NY, USA Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (p.1–24) Article Revista
• Wilde, Danielle and Dolejsova, Markéta and van Gaalen, Sjef and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Davis, Hilary and Raven, Paul Graham 2021 Troubling the Impact of Food Future Imaginaries Nordes Article Revista
• Segura, Elena Márquez and Vidal, Laia Turmo and Waern, Annika and Duval, Jared and Bel, Luis Parrilla and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba 2021 Physical Warm-up Games: Exploring the Potential of Play and Technology Design. CHI (p.440–1) Paper
• Pometko, Alexandra and Dagan, Ella and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Isbister, Katherine 2021 Drawing From Social Media to Inspire Increasingly Playful and Social Drone Futures Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (p.697–706) Paper
• Márquez Segura, Elena and Turmo Vidal, Laia and Waern, Annika and Duval, Jared and Parrilla Bel, Luis and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran 2021 Physical Warm-up Games: Exploring the Potential of Play and Technology Design Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p.1–14) Paper
• Gupta, Saumya and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and 'Oz'Buruk, O\dhuz and Espinosa, Sara Milkes and Jean Tanenbaum, Theresa and Wu, Minerva 2021 Exploring Food based Interactive, Multi-Sensory, and Tangible Storytelling Experiences Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (p.651–665) Paper
• Duval, Jared and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Chen, Siying and Chu, Melissa and Subramonian, Divya and Wang, Austin and Xiang, Geoffrey and Kurniawan, Sri and Isbister, Katherine 2021 Chasing Play on TikTok from Populations with Disabilities to Inspire Playful and Inclusive Technology Design Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p.1–15) Paper
• Dolejšová, Markéta and Ampatzidou, Cristina and Houston, Lara and Light, Ann and Botero, Andrea and Choi, Jaz and Wilde, Danielle and Altarriba Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Davis, Hilary and Gonzales Gonzales Gil, Felipe and others 2021 Designing for Transformative Futures: Creative Practice, Social Change and Climate Emergency Creativity and Cognition (p.1–9) Paper
• Deng, Jialin and Wang, Yan and Velasco, Carlos and Altarriba Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Comber, Rob and Obrist, Marianna and Isbister, Katherine and Spence, Charles and 'Floyd'Mueller, Florian 2021 The future of human-food interaction Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p.1–6) Paper
• Chisik, Yoram and Schaper, Marie-Monique and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Lupu, Ruxandra and Barbu, Laetitia and Turmo Vidal, Laia and Nilsen, Erik and Gupta, Saumya and Valero, Cristina 2021 Through the Zoom Glass: Drawing Design Inspiration from Mediated Playful Interactions with Food and Child Personas Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (p.294–300) Paper
• Bertran, Ferran Altarriba 2021 Situated Play Design: Co-creating the Playful Potential of Future Technology
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Kim, Soomin and Chang, Minsuk and Dagan, Ella and Duval, Jared and Isbister, Katherine and Turmo Turmo Vidal, Laia 2021 Social Media as a Design and Research Site in HCI: Mapping Out Opportunities and Envisioning Future Uses Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p.1–5) Paper
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Pometko, Alexandra and Gupta, Muskan and Wilcox, Lauren and Banerjee, Reeta and Isbister, Katherine 2021 The Playful Potential of Shared Mealtime: a speculative catalog of playful technologies for day-to-day social eating experiences ACM New York, NY, USA Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (p.1–26) Article Revista
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Duval, Jared and Bisbe Armengol, Laura and Chen, Ivy and Dong, Victor and Dastoor, Binaisha and Altarriba Bertran, Adrià and Isbister, Katherine 2021 A Catalog of Speculative Playful Urban Technology Ideas: Exploring the Playful Potential of Smart Cities ACM Academic Mindtrek 2021 (p.60–71) Paper
• Dolejšová, Markéta and Davis, Hilary and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Wilde, Danielle 2020 Feeding the futures of human-food interaction ACM New York, NY, USA interactions (p.34–39) Article Revista
• Dolejšová, Markéta and Wilde, Danielle and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Davis, Hilary 2020 Disrupting (More-than-) human-food interaction: Experimental design, tangibles and food-tech futures Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (p.993–1004) Paper
• Davis, Hilary and Wilde, Danielle and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Dolejšová, Markéta 2020 Fantastic (e) ating food futures: Reimagining human food interaction Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (p.377–380) Paper
• Chisik, Yoram and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Schaper, Marie-Monique and Segura, Elena Márquez and Vidal, Laia Turmo and Wilde, Danielle 2020 Chasing play potentials in food culture: embracing children's perspectives Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Extended Abstracts (p.46–53) Paper
• Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Lutz, Rosa and Isbister, Katherine 2020 Where interaction design meets gastronomy: Crafting increasingly playful and interactive eating experiences CRC Press Experiencing Food, Designing Sustainable and Social Practices (p.38–46) Paper
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Márquez Segura, Elena and Isbister, Katherine 2020 Technology for situated and emergent play: A bridging concept and design agenda Proceedings of the 2020 chi conference on human factors in computing systems (p.1–14) Paper
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Börütecene, Ahmet and Buruk, Oguz'Oz' and Thibault, Mattia and Isbister, Katherine 2020 MESMER: Towards a Playful Tangible Tool for Non-Verbal Multi-Stakeholder Conversations Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (p.168–172) Paper
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Turmo Vidal, Laia and Dagan, Ella and Duval, Jared and Márquez Segura, Elena and Isbister, Katherine 2020 Chasing Play with Instagram: How Can We Capture Mundane Play Potentials to Inspire Interaction Design? Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p.1–8) Paper
• Wilde, Danielle and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran 2019 From Playing with Food to Participatory Research through Gastronomy Design: food as a method of enquiry Intellect Ltd. The International Journal of Food Design (p.3–37) Article Revista
• Wilde, Danielle and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba 2019 Participatory Research through Gastronomy Design: A designerly move towards more playful gastronomy Intellect International Journal of Food Design (p.3–37) Article Revista
• Dolejšová, Markéta and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Wilde, Danielle and Davis, Hilary 2019 Crafting and tasting issues in everyday human-food interactions Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (p.361–364) Paper
• Dagan, Ella and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Segura, Elena Márquez and Flores, Miguel and Isbister, Katherine 2019 Workshop presentation of a social wearable that affords vulnerability Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (p.461–462) Paper
• Dagan, Ella and Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Segura, Elena Márquez and Flores, Miguel and Isbister, Katherine 2019 A social wearable that affords vulnerability Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (p.272–273) Paper
• Dagan, Ella and Márquez Segura, Elena and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Flores, Miguel and Isbister, Katherine 2019 Designing'True Colors' A Social Wearable that Affords Vulnerability Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p.1–14) Paper
• Dagan, Ella and Márquez Segura, Elena and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Flores, Miguel and Mitchell, Robb and Isbister, Katherine 2019 Design framework for social wearables Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (p.1001–1015) Paper
• Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Fey, James and Baltaxe-Admony, Leya Breanna 2019 MOODsic: A Computational-Musical Augmentation to Support Mindfulness Article Revista
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Wilde, Danielle and Berezvay, Ern\Ho and Isbister, Katherine 2019 Playful human-food interaction research: State of the art and future directions Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (p.225–237) Paper
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Jhaveri, Samvid and Lutz, Rosa and Isbister, Katherine and Wilde, Danielle 2019 Making sense of human-food interaction Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p.1–13) Paper
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Márquez Segura, Elena and Duval, Jared and Isbister, Katherine 2019 Designing for Play that Permeates Everyday Life: Towards New Methods for Situated Play Design Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019 (p.1–4) Paper
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Duval, Jared and Isbister, Katherine and Wilde, Danielle and Márquez Segura, Elena and Garcia Pañella, Oscar and Badal León, Laia 2019 Chasing play potentials in food culture to inspire technology design Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts (p.829–834) Paper
• Vannucci, Erica and Altarriba, Ferran and Marshall, Justin and Wilde, Danielle 2018 Handmaking food ideals: Crafting the design of future food-related technologies Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (p.419–422) Paper
• Slovák, Petr and Theofanopoulou, Nikki and Cecchet, Alessia and Cottrell, Peter and Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Dagan, Ella and Childs, Julian and Isbister, Katherine 2018 " I just let him cry... Designing Socio-Technical Interventions in Families to Prevent Mental Health Disorders ACM New York, NY, USA Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (p.1–34) Article Revista
• Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Wilde, Danielle 2018 Playing with food: reconfiguring the gastronomic experience through play CRC Press Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues (p.3–6) Paper
• Altarriba Bertran, Ferran and Jhaveri, Samvid and Lutz, Rosa and Isbister, Katherine and Wilde, Danielle 2018 Visualising the landscape of human-food interaction research Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (p.243–248) Paper
• Bertran, Ferran Altarriba 2017 Playing with food: enriching and diversifying the gastronomic experience through play
• Altarriba, Ferran and Lanzani, Stefano Eugenio and Torralba, Ana and Funk, Mathias 2017 The grumpy bin: reducing food waste through playful social interactions Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (p.90–94) Paper
• Bertran, Ferran Altarriba and Avdić, Mirzel and Erlendsson, Asbjørn Grangaard and Schlüter, Lennart and Valkær, Thomas Neville 2016 “The Mad Hatter’s Dinner Party”: Enhancing the Dining Experience Through the Use of Game Thinking Human nature: Proceeding of the 12th Student Interaction Design Research Conference (SIDeR 2016) (p.126–129) Paper
• Bertran, Ferran Altarriba 2016 The Coolhunter Lamp Human nature: Proceeding of the 12th Student Interaction Design Research Conference (SIDeR 2016) (p.233–234) Paper
• Bertran, Ferran Altarriba 2013 Tipos de jugadores en Gamification: teoría Bartle Recuperado el