Director, Game Innovation Lab
Nyu-Poly
Katherine Isbister is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU-Poly, where she is Research Director of the Game Innovation Lab (http://gil.cite.poly.edu). Her work focuses on broadening the social and emotional palette of everyday interaction with technology, combining Human Computer Interaction with Game Design Research. She uses games as research artifacts—her recent work has focused on movement-based interaction using game controllers and other movement sensing devices such as the Kinect and Move, iOS devices, and surveillance cameras. Isbister was selected in 1999 as one of MIT Technology Review’s TR 100 Young Innovators, and in 2011 received the Humboldt Experience Researcher Award. She has received funding from NSF, Microsoft Research, Bell Labs, and Yahoo Research, among others. Her work has been covered by Wired, Scientific American, NPR, Forbes, and the BBC.