Lab Updates
December 15, 2023
🎉🎉 Big Congratulations to Mandi Martin, Dulce Zayas, Jurine Gong, and Kristina Lapira for completing their Masters of Science in Human Computer Interactions at University of California Santa Cruz!!! Great job everyone.🎉🎉🍌🐌
November 24, 2023
Caro Araujo joined the lab. 🎉🎉
November 21, 2023
Bjarke Alexander Larsen’s interactive storytelling paper gets accepted to 16th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. Read more about it here.
October 30, 2023
To celebrate the start of the new school year, the successes of last year, and to welcome our newest members, WE HAD HOTPOT! | ♨️🍲🥢🫕
October 26, 2023
Nic Junius’s artificial intelligence paper gets accepted to the Proceedings of the Nineteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. Read the paper here.
October 4, 2023
Bjarke Alexander Larsen’s human computer interaction paper gets accepted to the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CHI PLAY. Read the paper here.
September 28, 2023
🌿👋🌳 A wild Yi Xie, Angel Tan, and Ryan Cai joined the Lab.
March 28, 2023
Kevin Weatherwax receives the 2022 Piatt Fellowship award! Read more about it here. Congratulations, Kevin!
March 15, 2023
🍌🐌🎉🎉Please join us in congratulating Ben Rowland graduating from University of California Santa Cruz with a Masters of Science in Games and Playable Media! Congratulations Ben!! 🎉🎉
December 22, 2022
🍌🐌 Big Congrats to Andrea Estrada and Dylan Hardman in graduating from University of California Santa Cruz with a Masters of Science in Human Computer Interaction!
November 2, 2022
👋 Mandi Martin, Adam Carter, and Lance Mendoza joined the Lab. 👋
October 24, 2022
Nic Junius’s artificial intelligence paper gets accepted to the Proceedings of the Eighteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. Read the paper here.
October 6, 2021
Janelynn Camingue human computer interaction paper gets accepted to the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CHI Play. Read the paper here.
September 17, 2020
Janelynn Camingue human computer interaction paper gets accepted to the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. Read the paper here.
November 19, 2019
Elin Carstensdottir interactive storytelling paper gets accepted to the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS. Read more about it here.
October 10, 2019
The Interaction Dynamics Lab is founded, by Elin Carstensdottir, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
January 20, 2024
Nicholas Nolasco joined the lab. 🎉🎉
May 13, 2024
Bjarke Alexander Larsen presented his perennial games paper at the 2024 Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Factors. What an exciting milestone! Read more about it here.
June 13, 2024
🎉🎉 Big Congratulations to Amir Valipour for completing his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science at University of California Santa Cruz!!! 🎉🎉🍌🐌
June 15, 2024
Mehul Sahni, Jilly Li and Nhi Tran joined the lab. 🎉🎉
July 5, 2024
Katy Grasse’s imposter syndrome narrative paper gets accepted to the 2024 Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Read more about it here.
March 22, 2024
🎉🎉 Big Congratulations to Adam Carter and Lance Mendoza for completing their Masters of Science in Games and Playable Media at University of California Santa Cruz!!! 🎉🎉🍌🐌
July 12, 2024
Yi Xie’s smell narrative interactivity submission gets accepted to the 2024 Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Hooray!
August 15, 2024
🎉🎉 Big Congratulations to Nic Junius for completing their PhD in Computational Media at University of California Santa Cruz!!! They are the first PhD student graduating from the ID Lab. Wonderful job!!! 🎉🎉🍌🐌
April 29, 2024
Bjarke Alexander Larsen was awarded the Baskin School of Engineering Dissertation-Year Fellowship for 2024-25. Woohoo!! 🎉🎉🍌🐌