NANCY N. BLACKBURN portrait
  • Graduate Research Assist (RA), Division Of Games
801-581-3791
http://nancygames.com

Education

  • Master's Entertainment Arts and Engineering, Engineering Track, Entertainment Arts and Engineering, University of Utah
  • Bachelor's of Science in Mathematics, Emphasis in Scientific Computing, Mathematics, University of Utah
  • Master of Computing, Kalhert School of Computing, University of Utah. Project: Investigating the Impact of Chocolate Broccoli Design Factors on the Effectiveness of Educational Games

Research Summary

My research intersects human-centered computing (HCC) with meaningful play, cybersecurity, privacy, and design. Published work includes serious game design theory, an AI co-creativity application, preference learning for procedural content generation, and presentations at national conferences on mathematical biology computational models.