Katherine Isbister

BY: CASSONDRA PELLERIN

Currently a professor at the University of California Santa Cruz teaching Computational Media

Has a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Communication and Human Computer Interaction

Work focuses on emotion and social connection through digital games and human computer interaction

Has published several books including Better Game Characters by Design: A Psychological Approach, Game Usability: Advancing the Player Experience and her most recent publication How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design which analyzes the way modern video games can invoke emotions as well as bring people together rather than pulling them apart.

The SIM Gallery - 2004We used The Sims Online to establish a portal between the real gallery and a virtual one we'd created in the game, and curated a show of works inside the game, that people could visit from within the game, but also, by sitting down at the exhibition in San Francisco.

SiMBEE - 2004Mimicing the performance art of Vanessa Beecroft

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