Katherine Isbister
Katherine Isbister | |
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Isbister presenting at the CITRIS Research Exchange in 2017 | |
| Born | Katherine Currie Isbister |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (BA) Stanford University (MA, PhD) |
| Known for | Games and Emotion Social VR Game Usability |
| Awards | ACM Distinguished Member (2016) Founding Fellow, HEVGA (2016) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Human computer interaction Game design |
| Institutions | University of California Santa Cruz New York University IT University of Copenhagen Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Stanford University |
| Thesis | Reading personality in onscreen interactive characters (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Clifford Nass |
| Other academic advisors | Byron Reeves, Barbara Hayes-Roth, Larry Friedlander |
| Website | katherineinterface |
Katherine Isbister is an American researcher and designer specializing in human computer interaction (HCI) and game design. She is a professor of computational media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Previously, she was an associate professor at New York University, with a joint appointment in computer science and in the Game Center at the Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, she was the founding research director of the Game Innovation Lab.