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I am a Ph.D. student doing research with Dr. Andruid Kerne at the Interface Ecology Lab. My research intrests include serious gaming, ambient information displays, alternative computer interfaces, psychophysiological sensing, and signal processing.

My primary project is Teaching Team Coordination with Location-aware Games (TTeCLoG). A major component of this project is Rogue Signals, a location aware game for studying and enhancing team cognition capabilities for emergency responders. An ongoing ethnographic study with the nearby Brayton Fire Training Facility features prominently in TTeCLoG and in the development of Rogue Signals.

In addition to Rogue Signals, I have also worked on on signal processing and media transformation projects, including Censor Chair, an art installation that uses psychophysilogical sensing and video tracking to censor the output from a media library, and PhysiRogue, an extension of Rogue Signals that uses psychophysiological sensing to enhance the game experience using stress as a component of play.

publications, presentations, and exhibitions:

Toups, Z. O., Kerne, A., Implicit Coordination in Firefighting Practice: Design Implications for Teaching Fire Emergency Responders, Proc ACM Computer Human Interaction 2007, San Jose, April 2007.

Toups, Z. O., Kerne, A., Location-Aware Augmented Reality Gaming for Emergency Response Education: Concepts and Development, Proc ACM Computer Human Interaction 2007 Workshop on Mobile Spatial Interaction, San Jose, April 2007.

Toups, Z. O., Graeber, R., Kerne, A., Tassinary, L., Berry, S., Overby, K., Johnson, M., A Design for Using Physiological Signals to Affect Team Game Play, Proc Augmented Cognition International, Oct 2006: San Francisco, In press.

Toups, Z., Overby, K., Kerne, A., Graeber, R., Cooper, T., Alley, E., Censor Chair, ACM SIGCHI Intl Conf on Advances in Computer Entertainment, June 2006, Hollywood. Alley, E. Cooper, T., Graeber, R., Kerne, A., Overby, K., Toups, Z., Censor Chair: Exploring Censorship and Social Presence through Psychophysiological Sensing, Proc ACM Multimedia 2005, 922-929.