Christopher Holden

Biography

Chris Holden received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. While there, he spent two years designing and playing augmented reality games with the Local Games Lab and several more in the the basement of the teacher education building with the cool kids. Now he's an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in his hometown of Albuquerque. When not taking over the world with augmented reality, he cares for his cats and chickens. His favorite games are still DDR and Katamari Damacy.

Sessions

• Rethinking Numeracy in the Design of Games for Learning
  Wednesday, June 10

  5:00–7:00

  Great Hall (4th floor, Central)
• It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Developing Place-Based, Augmented Reality Games for Language Learning
  Thursday, June 11

  2:00–3:00

  Old Madison (3rd floor, East/Southeast)