Zurich, Switzerland
HereSay - Alpha Testing
After 4 months of development, the HereSay platform was tested by a small internal user group.
Zurich, Switzerland
HereSay - Collaboration
Setting up an international collaboration to perform various user studies and subsequent analysing of the data. Collaboration partners include the Universit of Zurich in Switzerland, the University of Turku in Finland and the University of Tampere in Finland.
Zurich, Switzerland
Presenting the application Kick & Play at a booth at the UEFA Womens Final Forum in Basel. The application was designed and developed by software engineers and artists of the Game Technology Center. We are also setting up a user study to test the gamification elements of the app.
Zurich, Switzerland
Paper Review
Reviewed a paper for the workshop Entertainment Computing and Diversity
Zurich, Switzerland
Accepted and published systematic literature review on the adoption of location-based augmented reality in education.
Zurich, Switzerland
European Forum for Urban Forestry (EFUF)
Visiting the EFUF 2025 conference as an attendee.
Zurich, Switzerland
Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Game Technology Center (GTC) at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland
A further successful SNSF grant application allows me to work with the Game Technology Center at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in Switzerland. The main aim is to develop a gamified spatial crowdsourcing platform named HereSay, to perform largescale user tests focussing on urban blue and green areas and analysing the contributions in terms of the urban landscape affordances.
Tampere, Finland
GamiFIN 2025
Visiting the GamiFIN 2025 conference as an attendee and taking part in the GamiLIDAR workshops.
Tampere, Finland
Accepted and published systematic literature review on users’ motivations to contribution location-based data.
2024
Tampere, Finland
SNSF Post-Doc Return Grant
I was awarded a Post-Doc Return Grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation to further my research in Gamification and Spatial Crowdsourcing over the course of one year.
Tampere, Finland
Paper Review
Reviewed a paper for the conference CHI
Tampere, Finland
MindTrek Track Co-Chair
Co-chairing the Augmented Cities and Communities track at the Academic Mindtrek Conference. This included assigning reviewers, writing meta-reviews and ultimately deciding on accepted/rejected papers.
Tampere, Finland
Accepted and published paper exploring the trends and evolution of augmented reality location-based games through the next decade.
Tampere, Finland
Accepted and published paper exploring how I designed a location-based game as a gamified crowdsourcing platform.
Tampere, Finland
Paper Review
Reviewed a paper for the journal Internet Research
Tampere, Finland
Paper Review
Reviewed a paper for the journal Landscape & Urban Planning
Tampere, Finland
IMPETUS Accelerator 2024
I helped write a successful IMPETUS grant application to engage displaced youths in urban spatial mapping.
Darmstadt, Germany
Geo & Games Presentation
Presentation of my work in location based games and gamification in academia as well as participating in an expert panel discussion at the Geo & Games conference as part of the Game Days Darmstadt.
Tampere, Finland
Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Gamification Group, Tampere University, Finland
A successful SNSF grant application allows me to work with the Gamification Group at Tampere University in Finland. The main aim is to continue developing and implementing a location-based game for spatial crowdsourcing tasks.
Ruka, Finland
GamiFIN 2024 Paper Presentation - Best Presentation Award
Presentation of my paper on developing and implementing Arcane Shift, a global multi-lingual location-based game as a novel crowdsourcing platform. Awarded the best presentation award at GamiFIN 2024.
Auckland, New Zealand
Paper Review
Reviewed a paper for the journal Journal of Spatial Information Science
Auckland, New Zealand
Accepted and published paper exploring how we can extract sensory experiences and intangible dimensions from actively crowdsourced information
2023
Auckland, New Zealand
Paper Review
Reviewed a paper for the journal International Journal of Digital Earth
Auckland, New Zealand
ResBaz 2023 - Webmapping Workshop
I helped as an assistant in a interactive Leaflet Web-Mapping workshop given by a member of the Centre for eResearch.
Auckland, New Zealand
Arcane Shift
Started work on Arcane Shift, a real-time location-based game as a novel crowdsourcing platform.
Auckland, New Zealand
Accepted and published paper exploring how computational linguistics can be applied to analyse actively crowdsourced landscape information.
Auckland, New Zealand
Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Centre for eResearch, University of Auckland, NZ
A successful SNSF grant application allowed me to work with the Centre for eResearch at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The main aim is to develop and implement a location-based game for spatial crowdsourcing tasks.
2022
Auckland, New Zealand
SNSF Post-Doc Mobility Grant
I was awarded a Post-Doc Mobility Grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation to further my research in Gamification and Spatial Crowdsourcing over the course of two years.
Zurich, Switzerland
Final accepted PhD thesis as a monograph.
Zurich, Switzerland
PhD Defense
Public defense of my PhD and subsequent exam.
Zurich, Switzerland
Accepted and published paper exploring questions of crowdsourcing everyday lived landscape perceptions through the analyses of texts contributed to a custom built online crowdsourcing platform.
Zurich, Switzerland
Accepted and published paper exploring how reality is reconstructed in location-based games and how this ties into the concept of the metaverse.
Tampere, Finland
Academic MindTrek Paper Presentation
Presentation of our accepted paper regarding virtually recontrsucted reality at MindTrek.
Zurich, Switzerland
Accepted and published paper as third author exploring the identification of motifs in landscapes.
2021
Zurich, Switzerland
Accepted and published paper as second author exploring social media and recreational use of forests.
Zurich, Switzerland
Paper Review
Reviewed a paper for the conference Academic MindTrek.
Levi, Finland
GamiFIN Paper Presentation
Presentation of our accepted paper regarding gamification during lockdown and social isolation at GamiFIN.
Zurich, Switzerland
Accepted and published conference paper as second author exploring how playful practices were adopted during COVID.
Levi, Finland
Collaboration for publication
Collaboration on a paper with a member of the Gamification Group.
2020
Zurich, Switzerland
Storyboarding
Attendance of the course on Storyboarding as a research tool.
Zurich, Switzerland
Publish or Perish
Attendance of the course on advanced methods and approaches in citizen science.
Zurich, Switzerland
Publish or Perish
Attendance of the scientific writing course “Publish or Perish”.
Zurich, Switzerland
Paper Review
Reviewed a paper for the journal Journal of Location Based Services
Zurich, Switzerland
Hochschultag
Presentation at the HSGYM Hochschultag: “Coming Home”.
Zurich, Switzerland
Window Expeditions
Development of Window Expeditions to crowdsource landscape descriptions while reducing the feeling of isolation during lockdown.
Zurich, Switzerland
ShopSensor
Minimal help on Maximilian Hartmann’s ShopSensor project.
Levi, Finland
GamiFIN Poster Presentation
Presentation of my accepted poster regarding a location based game for landscape perception and preference research at GamiFIN.
Levi, Finland
GamiFIN Doctoral Consortium
Presentation and discussion of my research with PhDs and a panel of experts at the (online) GamiFIN conference.
Zurich, Switzerland
Citizen Science Winter School
An interesting and intense week of learning about public participation in research and discussing the future of “Citizen Science” in Academia.
2019
Zurich, Switzerland
URPP Language and Space Scientific Advisory Board
Presentation of my research in the Spatial References Focus Group in the University Research Priority Programm Language and Space
Zurich, Switzerland
Scientifica
After months of planning we informed visitors of the Scientifica19 about our research.
Zurich, Switzerland
Accepted and published paper exploring the advantages and limitations of using a location based game as a means of collecting land cover data
Zurich, Switzerland
URPP Language and Space Funding Evaluation
Presentation of the planned future of the Spatial References Focus Group in the University Research Priority Programm Language and Space
Zurich, Switzerland
PhD Concept Talk
Presentation of my PhD concept to the department and guests
2018
Zurich, Switzerland
Mapathon – Polygons Against Poverty
Scientific input presentation
Melbourne, Australia
GIScience18
Presentation of my accepted extended abstract at the GIScience 2018 conference in Melbourne
Berlin, Germany
Coding Geographic
Participation in the workshop Coding’Geographic
Edinburgh, Scotland
Collaboration for publication
Research visit to the Institute of Geography at the University of Edinburgh to work on a publication
Zurich, Switzerland
Who is behind your data? A conversation across geographic disciplines
Presentation of my work in crowdsourcing
Zurich, Switzerland
Citizen Science in Linguistics
Presentation of my experiences in Citizen Science relevant for linguists.