Erik is an Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia (Creative-Architecture); director of the Playful Cultures Lab (part of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments); ANU Honorary Research Professor; UWA Honorary Research Fellow; honorary professor at Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta; Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality at the University of Salford, UK; and Curtin University Emeritus Professor. He was previously UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, and Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He is a senior associate, at Outside Opinion.
Formerly he was Visualisation Theme Leader and Steering Committee... Read more
About me
Erik is an Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia (Creative-Architecture); director of the Playful Cultures Lab (part of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments); ANU Honorary Research Professor; UWA Honorary Research Fellow; honorary professor at Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta; Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality at the University of Salford, UK; and Curtin University Emeritus Professor. He was previously UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, and Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He is a senior associate, at Outside Opinion.
Formerly he was Visualisation Theme Leader and Steering Committee member at the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC) and a past Dean of Research and Graduate Studies. Prior to Curtin, he was DIGHUMLAB's inaugural Project Leader, reporting to four Danish universities, co-led DARIAH eu's research and engagement, and represented Denmark at CLARIN EU and NeDiMAH.
He is a chief investigator on four recent Australian Research Council grants (involving research infrastructures and cultural heritage), and an Australian Research Data Commons Platform Grant. He trained as an architect, and architectural historian, received a second masters (with honours) in philosophy, and his PhD (Australian Research Council Industry Scholarship) was from two Faculties (Engineering-Geomatics and Architecture) with Lonely Planet as the industry partner. A Fulbright scholar, he has been invited to speak in over 20 countries and has written or co-edited 10 books so far. He specializes in virtual heritage and serious games and was recently a visiting scholar in Finland. He has been teaching multimedia since 1990 but designed his first computer game at the start of the 1980s and wrote New Zealand's first degree in Performing and Screen Arts.
He currently teaches architectural history and an architectural elective in advanced digital media. He is supervising a PhD in Australian GLAM collections meta-games/interactive fiction, and another in virtual reaility, aesthetics and historical Chinese architecture, an honours on horror game design, and co-supervising a PhD in architectural design and game design (with a focus on Unreal). More PhD opportunities can be viewed on the UniSA PHD projects website. Prior to academia, he worked for Digital, Compaq, Hansen Technologies, and London Council.
In 2023 he was cochair of ICOMOS General Assembly's Digital Heritage theme, UniSA academic lead of a Cooperative Research Council application, and invited adjunct Professor, by Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta. In June he was invited to speak at the University of Milan and University of Siena, Italy. In August he spoke in Melbourne, and in Sydney in September. In October he was invited to speak in Trondheim by NTNU (where he ran a game design workshop as well) and spoke at book launches in Salford, Bristol and Cardiff. He can be followed on Twitter at @nzerik or LinkedIn.
In 2024 he was a reviewer for the European Research Council and invited to speak in Seoul at the launch of the new Korean heritage framework.
In 2025 he will chair DiGRAa in Adelaide (in February).
About me
ICOMOS ICIP; VSMM Board of Directors; Advisory Board.
Invited advisory board member for MOD museum, and for the Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment (CACHE), a Macquarie University Research Centre.
Senior Associate, Outside Opinion.
About me
Date | Title |
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17/06/2020 |
Antarctica without windchill, the Louvre without queues: how to travel the world from home, https://theconversation.com/antarctica-without-windchill-the-louvre-without-queues-how-to-travel-the-world-from-home-140174 |
05/03/2019 |
Virtual reality adds to tourism through touch, smell and real people’s experiences, https://theconversation.com/virtual-reality-adds-to-tourism-through-touch-smell-and-real-peoples-experiences-101528 |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Melbourne
Master of Philosophy with Second Class Honours The University of Auckland
2023 Honorary Professor, Universitas Bunda Mulia
2021 UniSA, Enterprise Fellow (ongoing)
2021 Visiting Fellow, University of Jyväskylä.
2013-2020 Curtin University: Professor of Cultural Visualisation, Acting Dean, UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation (2016-2020).
2012-2013 Project Leader, DIGHUMLAB Denmark.
2008-11 Associate Professor, Research and Postgraduate Director, Auckland School of Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, New Zealand.
2007-8 Senior Lecturer, Digital Media, Media Arts, College of Fine Arts, UNSW Sydney.
2005-6 Lecturer, Information Environments, University of Queensland.
2001-3 Lecturer & Coordinator, User Experience Design, Multimedia, Swinburne University of Technology.
1998-2021 IT. Digital /Compaq and Hansen Technology/
1998 Research Coordinator for Spatial Design, Art and Design, Auckland Institute of Technology, NZ.
1997 Lecturer in IT and Graphic design, Mayfair School of English, England.
Researcher, Equalities, London Borough of Camden.
1996 Degree Programme Writer, Performing and Screen Arts, (half-time), UNITEC, NZ.
Emeritus Professor (Curtin University), lifetime honorary appointment.
Invited Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality, in the School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK.
Adjunct Professor, Bunda Mulia University, Indonesia.
Invited Honorary Professor, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University, 21/6/20-20/6/25.
Invited Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia 7/2020-current.
Invited Visiting Fellow, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Center of Excellence in Game Culture Studies.
Invited speaker, NTNU Trondheim, October 2023. Invited keynote, Milan 2023. Invited to Virtual Memoryscapes ... Read more
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
PhD Project: An introductory guide to developing narrative-based learning games for Australian collections educators, with the History Trust of South Australia, History Trust of South Australia, 05/02/2024 - 01/01/2026
Photogrammetric Reconstruction for Underwater Virtual Heritage Experiences, ARC - Linkage Project, 28/01/2020 - 27/01/2024
GLAM Games: Gaps and Glimmers in the Visitor Experience, Department for Industry, Innovation and Science SA, 25/09/2023 - 31/10/2023
Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government, ARC - Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities Grant, 01/01/2021 - 31/12/2022
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2024 |
6
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2024 |
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2024 |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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2023 |
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2023 |
Open access
1
|
2023 |
Open access
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2022 |
Open access
2
|
2021 |
Open access
9
|
2020 |
5
|
2020 |
Open access
3
|
2019 |
Open access
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2018 |
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2018 |
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2018 |
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2018 |
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2018 |
3
9
|
2017 |
Open access
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2017 |
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2015 |
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2012 |
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Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
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2023 |
Open access
5
9
|
2023 |
Open access
1
1
1
|
2021 |
Open access
9
7
9
|
2021 |
Open access
18
17
2
|
2021 |
Open access
7
|
2020 |
Open access
59
45
42
|
2020 |
Open access
16
10
4
|
2020 |
|
2020 |
Open access
5
5
5
|
2019 |
Open access
104
74
45
|
2019 |
Open access
36
25
52
|
2019 |
Open access
|
2019 |
Open access
31
18
3
|
2019 |
Open access
66
53
1
|
2019 |
Open access
72
5
|
2018 |
Open access
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2017 |
Open access
24
17
30
|
2016 |
Open access
26
17
13
|
2016 |
Open access
|
2016 |
Open access
11
5
|
2015 |
13
11
2
|
2012 |
16
13
|
2012 |
61
50
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2011 |
5
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Year | Output |
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2022 |
Open access
1
9
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2021 |
2
|
2020 |
Open access
1
|
2019 |
Open access
13
|
2019 |
Open access
3
|
2018 |
Open access
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2016 |
2
|
2016 |
1
|
2015 |
Open access
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2015 |
Open access
2
2
6
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2014 |
4
|
2012 |
2
|
2011 |
Open access
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2011 |
Open access
5
|
2011 |
2
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Chapters in Press
Books
Conference Proceedings (co-editor)
Research
Emeritus Professor (Curtin University), lifetime honorary appointment.
Invited Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality, in the School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK.
Adjunct Professor, Bunda Mulia University, Indonesia.
Invited Honorary Professor, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, Australian National University, 21/6/20-20/6/25.
Invited Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia 7/2020-current.
Invited Visiting Fellow, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Center of Excellence in Game Culture Studies.
Invited speaker, NTNU Trondheim, October 2023. Invited keynote, Milan 2023. Invited to Virtual Memoryscapes Workshops, part of Participatory Workshops: Co-Designing Guidelines for Digital Interventions in Holocaust Memory and Education, led by Dr Victoria Grace Walden (University of Sussex) and SPECS-Lab (The Netherlands). 28 February, 14 March 2023. Virtual. https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/
Graduate Certificate, Digital Learning Futures, Charles Darwin University. “Outstanding achievement” letter, 2021.
Inaugural UNESCO chair, Curtin University 2016-2020.
2024
2023
2022
Other talks:
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Australian National University | AUSTRALIA |
Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
Cyprus University of Technology | CYPRUS |
Dalhousie University | CANADA |
Edith Cowan University | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Manukau Institute of Technology | NEW ZEALAND |
Massey University | NEW ZEALAND |
Panteion University | GREECE |
Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
Shenyang Aerospace University | CHINA |
Swinburne University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
Texas Tech University | UNITED STATES |
University Centre of Joao Pessoa | BRAZIL |
University of Alberta | CANADA |
University of Auckland | NEW ZEALAND |
University of Calgary | CANADA |
University of Canterbury | NEW ZEALAND |
University of Glasgow | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Lugano | SWITZERLAND |
University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
University of Otago | NEW ZEALAND |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Salford | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Technology | IRAQ |
University of the Aegea | GREECE |
University of Toronto | CANADA |
University of Waikato | NEW ZEALAND |
Uppsala University | SWEDEN |
Victoria University of Wellington | NEW ZEALAND |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2024 |
Invited Honorary Professor of Games, Immersive Media & Extended Reality, in the School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK.School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK. |
2024 |
MemberDigital History Tasmania member |
2024 |
ReviewerEuropean Historical Game Studies reviewer |
2024 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2023 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2022 |
Invited Adjunct ProfessorFaculty of Technology and Design, Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, Indonesia |
2022 |
Lectures, invited speech at launch of their new interaction design degreeFaculty of Technology and Design, Universitas Bunda Mulia, Jakarta, Indonesia |
2022 |
MemberARC Indigenous Discovery Advisory Group |
2022 |
Editorial Board MemberThe Journal of Interactive Humanities |
2021 |
Editorial Board MemberExplorations in Heritage Studies |
2021 |
Editorial Board MemberDigital Creativity, Games & Culture |
2021 |
Editorial Board MemberJournal of Media Critiques |
2021 |
Editorial Board MemberStudies in the Digital Humanities |
2021 |
Editorial Board MemberJournal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds |
2021 |
Emeritus ProfessorCurtin University |
2021 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2021 |
MemberAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
2021 |
MemberARC Indigenous Discovery Advisory Group |
2021 |
MemberCurtin Institute for Computation (CIC) |
2021 |
MemberEuropean Architectural History Network |
2021 |
Member, Board of DirectorsVirtual Systems and Multimedia Society (VSMM) |
2021 |
ReviewerEuropean Science Foundation College of Experts |
2021 |
Visiting FellowUniversity of Jyväskylä |
2021 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2020 |
Honorary Research FellowUniversity of Western Australia |
2020 |
Honorary Research ProfessorAustralian National University |
2020 |
MemberARC Indigenous Discovery Advisory Group |
2020 |
ReviewerDigital Humanities |
2020 |
ReviewerJournal of Aesthetics and Culture |
2020 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2019 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2018 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2017 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2016 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2015 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2014 |
Grant reviewerEuropean Research Council |
2013 |
Conference Workshop
Champion, E. (2022, 20 November). Prototyping Games for Interactive Spaces and Surfaces. ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2022), Wellington, New Zealand. Accepted.
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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A Framework for Developing Educational Games in and with Australian Museums | Current |
Games for Industry: Application of Game-Engine Software to the AEC Sector | Current |
Immersivity and fidelity: Architecture, design and game engines | Current |
The impact of the use of interactive design on the cultural heritage of children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Current |