Lab Updates


December 15, 2023

πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ 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.πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŒπŸŒ


November 24, 2023

Caro Araujo joined the lab. πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰


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! | β™¨οΈπŸ²πŸ₯’πŸ«•


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

πŸŒΏπŸ‘‹πŸŒ³ 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

πŸŒπŸŒπŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰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!! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰


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

πŸ‘‹ Mandi Martin, Adam Carter, and Lance Mendoza joined the Lab. πŸ‘‹


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.