Ian Bogost and Students Remake Atari Emulators

Both Kotaku and Joystiq have articles about Ian Bogost and his students remaking Atari emulators to look better. You can read about it here and here.

Tangible Comics Featured in Atlanta Journal Constitution

Today’s AJC featured a story about the Synaesthetic Media Lab’s Tangible comics project, created by Ph.D. student Ozge Samanci and supervisor Ali Mazalek.

Brian Magerko

My research explores artificial intelligence approaches to story management, synthetic characters, and logical representations of story for interactive narratives. My current work is focused on four separate domains: 1) the use of interactive narrative for training and education, 2) intelligent director agents and coordination with synthetic characters, 3) story representation and authoring tools, and 4) the study of real-world interactive drama and improvisation techniques. My interests include:
* intelligent agents
* user modeling
* intelligent tutoring systems
* cognitive architectures
* interactive drama
* narrative theory
* serious games

Jay Bolter

Wesley Chair in New Media

Co-Director: Wesley Center for New Media Research and Education

jay.bolter [at] lcc.gatech.edu

http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~bolter/

Research Areas: Augmented Reality and Dramatic Experiences, Digital Art and Design, Media Theory

Ali Mazalek

Assistant Professor

alexandra.mazalek lcc.gatech.edu

Tangible & computational narratives, media spaces & interfaces, physical sensing & interaction technologies

Celia Pearce - Director

Celia Avatars
Assistant Professor
Director, Emergent Game Group http://egg.lcc.gatech.edu
celia.pearce [at] lcc.gatech.edu

http://cpandfriends.com/

Research Areas: Sociology of massively multiplayer games and virtual worlds, spatial media, game design

Dr. Pearce is a game designer, artist, researcher, teacher and author of The Interactive Book: A Guide to the Interactive Revolution (Macmillan, 1997), and other writings on game design and culture. Before joining Georgia Tech, she held academic appointments at USC and UC. Prior to that, she designed interactive attractions for the museum and theme park industry. She is also co-founder of Ludica, a women’s game art collective, and Festival Chair for Indiecade, an upcoming independent video game festival.

Michael Nitsche - Associate Director


Assistant Professor
michael.nitsche [at] lcc.gatech.edu
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~nitsche/info.html

Works on interactive real-time 3-dimensional virtual environments and investigates ways to shape their content and presentation. This leads to his interest in Machinima and video games as expressive platforms for performing players.

Janet Murray

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
School of Literature, Communication and Culture
janet.murray [at] lcc.gatech.edu

http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~murray/

Research interests: Interactive narrative and eTV, interactive gaming, encyclopedic media