Current Projects

This project focuses on developing transparent descriptive models of players' behaviors and use that for reflection and to help players learn from others. 


Illustration by Meriel Waissman taken from RAND Corp

Understanding and helping shape resilience through social connections and narrative.

Using Interactive Narratives to Support teaching experimental research methods. 

Understanding human perceptions regarding AI and data science. 


Understanding and helping shape resilience through social connections and narrative.

Art by Sai Siddartha Maram

Understanding the interaction between narratives, character design, game loops with cultures, traditions, and faith of designers, developers, and players.

Image appeared in The Hill 

WildFires Climate Hazard

Building Games to Engage Stakeholders in collective cognition towards resilience in face of Wildfires. 

Visualization System to allow users to model and detect adversaries in social networks

Visualization System to allow users to segment and inspect users' journey and behavioral patterns. 

Collection of Methods on Game User Research

Collaborators/Funders

Charles River Analytics

Funded Human-in-Loop Behavior Modeling and collaborated on the project.  


National Science Foundation

Funded OPM and May's Journey projects. 

James McDonnell Foundation

Funded Resilience Project

Benshai.ai - Reducing Health Inequalities with AI

Provided a gift to the GUII Lab


ONR

Funded Human-in-Loop Behavior Modeling


CITRIS

Funded Social Intelligence and Theory of Mind

Senpai.gg

Collaborating on UX of AI project. 

mobalytics.gg

Collaborating on UX of AI project. 

TERC

Collaborating on May's Journey.

Co-Design Lab, UC Berkeley, led by Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Collaborating on Social Intelligence and Theory of Mind

SOGA Research Group, UC Berkeley, led by Kenichi Soga

Collaborating on building mechanisms for addressing Fire as a Climate Hazard