Speaker
Speaker Info
- Name
- Ellis Bartholomeus
- Organization
- Ellis In Wonderland & Eindhoven University of Technology
- Country
- The Netherlands
- Biography
- Throughout her career, Ellis Bartholomeus has been intrigued with the value of play. She graduated from the Design Academy in 1996 as a product designer and realized that to have audiences own a message they needed to interact with it. Since then she has been designing play as a method/tool to amplify self-motivated learning and enable rich social interaction. Ellis has co-developed more than 75 games and playful interactive products on a wide spectrum of topics. After years of developing products, Ellis wrote Apply Play, a book on the art of play. She gives talks and facilitates workshops on the value and power of play. During corona Ellis' mother passed away with dementia and Ellis is currently doing research how AI can be a tool for better wellbeing in the topic of dementia.
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Presentation Info
- Title
- Don't Forget to Play
- Summary
- Sparking the conversations about the power of play, and how this power could aid our mental well-being — now and as we age. Keep on playing!
- Keynote
- Presentation
- ellis_bartholomeus__gfheu__2025.pdf
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