Network Investigator: Alissa Antle

Contact Information

• Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Technology, SFU
• 1.604.619.2290 (voice)
• 1.778.782.7488 (fax)
• mailto:[email protected]
• http://www.siat.sfu.ca/faculty/Alissa-Antle/
• http://www.antle.iat.sfu.ca/

GRAND Projects

• Games for Learning and Training
• Evaluating Affective User Experience
• Developing Methods for Evaluation of Virtual Worlds

Biography

Alissa's current research interests include the design and evaluation of spatial and embodied interactive systems and environments. Her research in new forms of enabling technologies and embodied interaction methods is funded by the Canadian National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and was recently acknowledged with top papers at the ACM Tangible and Embodied Interaction Conference (ACM TEI ‘08) and ACM Interaction Design for Children (ACM IDC '08). Her work in embodied evaluation methods is funded by the Canadian Social Sciences Research Council (SSHRC). Alissa's Ph.D. research combined cognitive science, HCI and Cartographic Visualization (UBC, Geography).

Before joining the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU, Alissa was the executive producer and creative director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s CBC4Kids.ca redevelopment project and special consultant to the first North American fully integrated television and web based show targeted to children, CBC Children’s Television’s Spy Kids. At Brainium Technologies she oversaw the design and development of award winning web-based educational productions including Science Brainium, Telus World of Science’s Dogzilla Versus the Carbonator and Rick Hansen Kids. Alissa’s interactive work has been recognized by organizations including the Canadian New Media Awards, New Media Invision Awards (GOLD), Parent’s Choice Foundation, Webby and SIIA Codie Awards.