Awards
These are awards won by our students and staff.
- 2011
Dutch Game Award 2011 for Best Student Game was awarded to the Room Racers augmented reality game by student Lieven van Velthoven.
Jury-nomination for Best Original Game of the Dutch Game Awards 2011 for the Room Racers augmented reality game by student Lieven van Velthoven.
Best New Media Production Award 2011 of the Cinekid International Youth Media Festival was awarded to the Room Racers project by student Lieven van Velthoven.
- 2010
Best Demonstration Award of the international EuroHaptics 2010 Conference was awarded to Staas de Jong for demonstrating his Cyclotactor technology prototype.
- 2009
Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2009 was awarded to Edwin van der Heide for the strength of his unique position within the new media and the visual arts.
Edwin van der Heide was made the Edgard Varèse guest professor position at the TU Berlin in the period May - August 2009.
- 2008
Best in Show Award at the Leiden University Study Festival, March 8 2008, for Mano dei Mario: Intuitive Game Control by Casper Schipper, Bastiaan Terhorst, and Pegah Takapoui.
- 2007
Emerging Technologies Award at the 9th Int Conference on Virtual Reality 2007 for Globe4D, Time-traveling with an Interactive Four-dimensional Globe by Rick Companje, Nico van Dijk, Hanco Hogenbirk, and Danica Mast.
Education and Virtual Entertainment Award at the 9th Int Conference on Virtual Reality 2007 for Globe4D, Time-traveling with an Interactive Four-dimensional Globe by Rick Companje, Nico van Dijk, Hanco Hogenbirk, and Danica Mast.
- 2006
Jury Recommendation Award at the 10th Japan Media Arts Festival 2006 for PingPongPixel by Jonathan den Breejen and Marenka Deenstra.
Best Video Program Award at the 14th Int ACM Multimedia Conference 2006 for Globe4D, Time-traveling with an Interactive Four-dimensional Globe by Rick Companje, Nico van Dijk, Hanco Hogenbirk, and Danica Mast.

