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<p><b>Katherine Currie Isbister</b> (* <a href="1969" title="1969">1969</a>) ist eine US-amerikanische <a href="Hochschullehrer" title="Hochschullehrer">Hochschullehrerin</a>. Sie ist <a href="Professor" title="Professor">Professorin</a> für Computational Media an der <a href="University_of_California" title="University of California">University of California</a> in <a href="Santa_Cruz_(Kalifornien)" title="Santa Cruz (Kalifornien)">Santa Cruz (Kalifornien)</a>, wo sie das Center for Computational Experience leitet.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Werk">Leben und Werk</h2></div>
<p>Isbister besuchte bis 1986 die North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics und studierte bis 1990 an der <a href="University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>, wo sie den <a href="Bachelor" title="Bachelor">Bachelor</a> of Arts erwarb. Am Communication Department der Stanford University erhielt sie 1995 den <a href="Master" title="Master">Master</a> of Arts und promovierte 1998 bei Clifford Nass an der <a href="Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> mit der Dissertation <i>Reading Personality in Onscreen Interactive Characters</i>.
</p><p>Anschließend arbeitete sie in Forschungslaboren in <a href="Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="Schweden" title="Schweden">Schweden</a> und den USA sowie in Software-<a href="Start-up-Unternehmen" title="Start-up-Unternehmen">Startups</a>. Sie forschte als Associate Professor ab 2004 am <a href="Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute" title="Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</a>, ab Januar 2008 an der <a href="IT-Universit%C3%A4t_Kopenhagen" title="IT-Universität Kopenhagen">IT-Universität Kopenhagen</a> und anschließend ab September 2008 an der <a href="New_York_University_Tandon_School_of_Engineering" title="New York University Tandon School of Engineering">New York University Tandon School of Engineering</a>. Sie war die Gründungsforschungsdirektorin des Game Innovation Lab an der <a href="New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> (NYU) und Gründungsmitglied der Fakultät des NYU Game Center.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seit 2015 ist sie Professorin für Computational Media an der University of California.
</p><p>Ihre Forschung konzentriert sich auf das Entwerfen von Spielen und anderen interaktiven Erfahrungen, die soziale und emotionale Verbindungen stärken, hin zur Innovation von <a href="Designtheorie" title="Designtheorie">Designtheorie</a> und technologischer Praxis.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Auszeichnungen_(Auswahl)"><span id="Auszeichnungen_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li>1999: TR100 Young Innovators, MIT Technology Review<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2006: Nominierung für den Frontline Award des Game Developer Magazine<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2011: Forschungsstipendium der <a href="Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung" title="Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung">Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung</a></li>
<li>Von 2014 bis 2015: Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellow in Communication am Stanford Center for Advanced Study</li>
<li>2015: Best Paper Award at FDG2015</li>
<li>2016: <a href="Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">Association for Computing Machinery</a> (ACM) Distinguished Member<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Veröffentlichungen_(Auswahl)"><span id="Ver.C3.B6ffentlichungen_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design.</i> Playful Thinking series, MIT Press, 2016.</li>
<li><i>Better Game Characters by Design: A Psychological Approach</i>. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann., 2006. (Nominiert für den Game Developer Magazine Frontline Award)</li>
<li>mit E. Márquez Segura, S. Kirkpatrick, X. Chen, S. Salahuddin, G. Cao, R. Tang: <i>Yamove! A Movement Synchrony Game That Choreographs Social Interaction</i>. Human Technology Special Issue on Human-Technology Choreographies: Body, Movement, and Space, Volume 12 (1), 2016, S. 74–102.</li>
<li>mit K. J. Fisher, T. Nichols, Fuller: <i>Quantifying “Magic:” Learnings from User Research for Creating Good Player Experiences on Xbox Kinect</i>. International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations 6(1), 2016, S. 26–40.</li>
<li>mit L. Caroux: <i>Influence of Heads-Up Displays’ Characteristics on User Experience in Video Games</i>. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 87, 2016, S. 65–79.</li>
<li>mit F. Mueller: <i>Guidelines for the Design of Movement-Based Games and their relevance to HCI</i>. Human Computer Interaction, special issue on Games and HCI, Volume 30, Issue 3–4, 2015, S. 366–399.</li>
<li>mit R. Bernhaupt, S. de Freitas: <i>Introduction to This Special Issue on Games and HCI</i>. Human Computer Interaction, special issue on Games and HCI, Volume 30, Issue 3-4, 2015, S. 195–201.</li>
<li>mit L. Caroux, L. Le Bigot, N. Vibert: <i>Player-video game interaction: a systematic review of current concepts</i>. Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 2015, S. 366–381.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.katherineinterface.com/">Persönliche Website</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ui_kg8gAAAAJ&hl=en">Google-Scholar-Profil</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katherine-Isbister">Researchgate-Profil</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://chiplay.acm.org/2017/katherine-isbister/">Katherine Isbister bei CHI PLAY 2017 (englisch)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/getting-more-intimate/">Interview: Katherine Isbister (englisch)</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWL1jeL0uBU">Youtube-Video: How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design | Katherine Isbister | TEDxHarkerSchool</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://game.engineering.nyu.edu/gil-researchers-win-best-paper-awards-at-fdg2015/">GIL Researchers Win Best Paper Awards at FDG2015</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://berlingamescene.com/event/katherine-isbister-games-move-us-emotion-design/"><i>Katherine Isbister: How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 8. Juli 2022</span> (amerikanisches Englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AKatherine+Isbister&rft.title=Katherine+Isbister%3A+How+Games+Move+Us%3A+Emotion+by+Design&rft.description=Katherine+Isbister%3A+How+Games+Move+Us%3A+Emotion+by+Design&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fberlingamescene.com%2Fevent%2Fkatherine-isbister-games-move-us-emotion-design%2F&rft.language=en-US"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite">Brad King: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/staff/katherine-isbister/"><i>Katherine Isbister.</i></a> In: <i>ETC Press.</i><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 8. Juli 2022</span> (amerikanisches Englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AKatherine+Isbister&rft.title=Katherine+Isbister&rft.description=Katherine+Isbister&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpress.etc.cmu.edu%2Findex.php%2Fstaff%2Fkatherine-isbister%2F&rft.creator=Brad+King&rft.language=en-US"> </span></span>
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