http://www.katherineinterface.com/index.htmlKatherine Isbister newsenKatherine IsbisterCopyright 2009 katherine isbister2011-08-04T11:48:06+02:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:53:40 +0200Katherine IsbisterNone2011-08-04T11:48:06+02:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/d81af7dc8b89372e2308e2e399472d85-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/d81af7dc8b89372e2308e2e399472d85-10.html#unique-entry-id-10Humboldt Experience Researcher fellowship, which requires me (not a burdensome requirement) to be in Berlin for 3-month stints, working with the Computer Graphics group at TU Berlin on multitouch interaction. During my time in Berlin I ended up doing some travel as well. Was Technical Co-Chair of Foundations of Digital Gaming, which was held in Bordeaux, France. Also attended my first Microsoft Faculty Summit in Washington state, where we presented the results of our 3-year grant for the NYU Games for Learning Institute. Got a chance to see Patrick Baudisch's lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute, too, which is well worth a visit. ]]>Katherine IsbisterNone2011-03-13T21:33:33+01:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/26b5f984a0ddd1806199ec2f98ead7cd-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/26b5f984a0ddd1806199ec2f98ead7cd-9.html#unique-entry-id-9Kill Screen published a fun interview that I did with Tracy John. The lab's work was also mentioned in a piece in Electronic Gaming Monthly by Michael Thomsen about future game tech. In March, we had the official ribbon cutting for the brand new Game Innovation Lab at NYU-Poly where I'm Research Director. There was a great panel with Frank Lantz, Evan Narcisse, and Chris Cross, and lots of excellent student demos.

I gave two talks at the annual Game Developers Conference--one at the Game User Research summit (about our work last summer with THQ/Kaos doing video streaming of usability) and the other in the Education Summit (about incorporating research into game education). While I was out in the Bay Area, I also gave a Google Tech Talk about my lab's work. Later in the spring, I presented a poster about our work at CHI, a panel on HCI and Game Development, and we ran an instance of Backchatter (a Twitter game created by Local no. 12).
]]>Katherine IsbisterNone2010-11-16T20:39:47+01:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/9f8dec0967265930244febadb858dabc-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/9f8dec0967265930244febadb858dabc-8.html#unique-entry-id-8Meaningful Play, which is on Vimeo if you'd like to see it; and was on two panels--one on careers in HCI at the Grace Hopper Women in Computing conference, and the other in the NYU Game Center's ongoing Game Studies seminar, which was on using games for research. We also showed Wriggle! at Babycastles, and I gave a talk there as part of the US invasion of the Copenhagen Game Collective.

The lab and our work has also gotten some great press--I weighed in about the pros and cons of the new Kinect for a Kotaku column, and even more exciting was our appearance on the 'front page' of wired.com--an excellent piece about our work on movement mechanics in games and how they create emotional and social effects in players. ]]>Katherine IsbisterNone2010-07-28T15:41:07+02:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/17e6492ee7fb903660aba0f11ffbc069-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/17e6492ee7fb903660aba0f11ffbc069-7.html#unique-entry-id-7Computer Graphics Lab at the Technische Universität Berlin. Had a busy spring--gave a presentation about developing movement game mechanics at the Game Developers Conference (talk slides here), and participated in a panel at the Serious Games Summit about the Games for Learning Institute. I presented a short paper at CHI 2010 about my work with Mary Flanagan interviewing game developers about games and learning, and also participated in a fun panel hosted by Celia Pearce at Georgia Tech about Games and Emotion (with Shaowen and Jeff Bardzell, and Magy Seif El-Nasr). This fall I'll be part of a panel in the HCI track at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and will also keynote at Meaningful Play. ]]>Katherine IsbisterNone2010-01-06T20:05:27+01:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/27a21efa18f2b7ae63a63d9c349a620d-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/27a21efa18f2b7ae63a63d9c349a620d-6.html#unique-entry-id-6CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (hosted by the ever charming Drew Davidson), and at Simon Frasier University's SIAT program (at the request of Magy Seif El-Nasr, who's doing some wonderful research there). I also attended an NSF-sponsored workshop at UC Santa Cruz hosted by Michael Mateas, titled Computational Media: Creating a 21st Century Curriculum for Games and Playable Media. We had some rousing discussions about how to think about the role of games in computer science education, which have really helped me in thinking about our game-related programs here at NYU-Poly. ]]>Katherine IsbisterNone2009-07-31T11:46:35+02:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/329037c212a7002454d7598b3ae79ddb-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/329037c212a7002454d7598b3ae79ddb-5.html#unique-entry-id-5Katherine IsbisterNone2009-06-29T12:08:07+02:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/1106a9696b5b21e5774144ea5d802771-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/1106a9696b5b21e5774144ea5d802771-4.html#unique-entry-id-4Katherine IsbisterNone2009-05-15T18:05:43+02:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/4a4d46655c04783b39154b3ceedda719-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/4a4d46655c04783b39154b3ceedda719-3.html#unique-entry-id-3Katherine IsbisterNews2009-02-21T04:29:07+01:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/53b51aa9639413648fec6340a7d198ab-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/53b51aa9639413648fec6340a7d198ab-2.html#unique-entry-id-2Katherine IsbisterNews2009-03-21T03:28:40+01:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/8017092257993a167ace80b612d2d9c9-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/8017092257993a167ace80b612d2d9c9-1.html#unique-entry-id-1Katherine IsbisterNews2009-04-21T04:19:36+02:00http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/9a12b0d176f762c9b82dfd3868fda581-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.katherineinterface.com/page5/files/9a12b0d176f762c9b82dfd3868fda581-0.html#unique-entry-id-0