Computational Media

Computational media grad student James Ryan was featured in a New Scientist story about GameSpace, a tool Ryan developed for exploring and discovering new games.

Computational media professor Katherine Isbister was interviewed on the public radio program Science Friday, talking about fidget spinners.

Computational media professor Katherine Isbister was featured in stories in the Washington Post and Wired about the popularity of "fidget spinners."

Computational media professor Katherine Isbister wrote an article on the fidget spinner craze for the Conversation, and it was republished in Scientific American and dozens of other media outlets.

Computational media professors Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas published an article in the Conversation on the future of interactive storytelling.

Game designers Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, and James Ryan are featured in an in-depth review of their mixed-reality game "Bad News" on the game news site Glixel.

Computational media professor Michael Mateas and graduate students Aaron Reed and James Ryan are featured in a Guardian article about the use of artifical intelligence to simulate emotional behavior in nonplayer characters in computer games.

Game news site Polygon reviewed How Games Move Us, the new book by computational media professor Katherine Isbister.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a web-based tool for finding computer games developed by grad students James Ryan and Eric Kaltman, and also quoted professor of computational media Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

Game news site Gamasutra ran a story about the new game finding services developed by researchers at the UCSC Center for Games and Playable Media.

Computational media professors Sri Kurniawan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin were quoted in coverage of the new CAVE Lab for virtual reality research projects, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Santa Cruz Tech Beat.