Career
His principal topics of interest are pervasive and environmental game design, creative process design, and participatory media. Watson was born in 1973 in Calgary, Alberta. He attended McGill University in Montreal, York University and the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy (2011) in Media Arts and Practice.
From 2013-2014, Watson was an Assistant Professor in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University in Toronto, where he founded the Situation Laboratory with futurist Stuart Candy.
In 2014, the Situation Laboratory released its first game, The Thing From the Future.