Thanks to safinah for very patiently dealing with me panicking for like three straight months 😭 worth it!

We'd also like to congratulate Safinah Ali (safinah), Nisha Elizabeth Devasia (Nisha Devasia), and Cynthia Breazeal (cynthia breazeal) on an honorary mention for their paper ‘Escape!Bot: Social Robots as Creative Problem-Solving Partners’!

Nisha Devasia and I presented our MIT Media Lab work on creative collaborative problem solving with robots in games this week in Creativity & Cognition & received an honorable mention award. We found that robotic creativity might be perceptible but not always helpful in complex tasks.

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Thirty seconds TRULY isn’t enough to summarize the impact FF7 has had on my life, but here’s my best attempt :) the person that I am and everything I’ve done is all for my love of this game. #WhatFFVIIMeansToMe

Congratulations to safinah, Nisha Devasia, and cynthia breazeal of PersonalRobots on receiving an honorable mention award at Creativity & Cognition for their paper “Escape!Bot: Social Robots as Creative Problem-Solving Partners.” media.mit.edu/posts/paper-by…

Just preordered!! Can’t believe it’s been THREE years since I was an intern at Santa Monica…I’m so ready to finally play this

It’s GOW: Ragnarok launch day!!! What an honor it was to intern on this project and learn so much from the amazing people Santa Monica Studio – God of War Ragnarök. I eagerly await my preorder arriving in the mail tomorrow ❤️

Update: after utterly no lifing this game for 4 days, I finished, cried for 3 hours, and I’m starting it again today. Best game I’ve ever played 💜

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Game dev friends - a friend in my PhD program is looking to interview folks who are BLV/work in game accessibility for his research on gamified crafting for BLV youth. If you or a friend would be interested, reach out to him here! linkedin.com/in/studiorodri…

Undergrads! (or folks who know undergrads) Want to talk to me about the interesting ways that you use LLMs for your classes? The survey is anonymous and pretty fun, if I do say so myself. forms.gle/XPzKEaFUXemuPi…

Back again for study recruitment! I'm interested in talking to people in long distance romantic relationships about how games help them stay connected - compensation of $40 offered for participation in the full study! Info and screening survey here: forms.gle/EkfZ4Wdz8YrsjK…

Emerging from the depths of grad school to announce something very exciting I'm doing in my free time - I'm LIVING MY DREAMS AND WRITING ABOUT FF7 IN A BOOK in the upcoming volume of the Psychgeist of Pop Culture series, edited by Dr. Celeste Sangiorgio, Clinical Psychologist and Christopher Leech - (He/Him)!

I'm at ISLSAnnualMeeting this week presenting the 1st first author paper of my PhD "Student Perspectives on Learning and Teaching Data Ethics Through Speculative Game Design". It's also my first time at ISLS, would love to meet other folks in game-based learning!

Full paper available here! repository.isls.org/bitstream/1/10…

Calling all science/tech folks: Do you have thoughts about xkcd? Parker Bach & I are trying to understand the role that xkcd plays in the scientific/technical community. Will you share your thoughts? forms.office.com/pages/response… And since we are doing a snowball sample, please spread

Many of you may know that video games have been crucial to shaping my life journey/career path (mostly Final Fantasy 7). If you've ever experienced something profound or tangibly changed your behavior because of a game, tell me about it! forms.gle/VYfh3FFuo8ZNyb…