Katherine Isbister

53 papers · ORCID · OpenAlex

Affiliations over time

University of California, Santa CruzUnited States2016–2026 · 36
University of California SystemUnited States2017–2019 · 5
New York UniversityUnited States2010–2014 · 9
SUNY Polytechnic InstituteUnited States2011–2014 · 8

Frequent co-authors

Papers

"I have a plan to start": Empowering Awareness and Behavior Change through a Collaborative Flood Resilience GameCHI Games & Play 2026
Quantifying the Impact of a Wildfire Game on Changes in "Feelings of Preparedness" for a Wildfire EvacuationCHI Games & Play 2026
Talking Wildfire: How Discourse in Serious Games Shapes Collaborative Learning and PreparednessFDG 2026
A Playful Wildfire Simulation System in Two MinigamesCHI PLAY 2025
Designing Doable and Locally-adapted Action Cards for an Interactive Tabletop Game To Support Bottom-Up Flood ResilienceCHI PLAY 2025
Designing FEVR: a VR Game for Wildfire Evacuation ReadinessFDG 2025
FEVR: Exploring the Use of Virtual Reality for Pre-Evacuation Wildfire TrainingCHI PLAY 2025
Wildfire Games: A Community Approach to Designing Serious Games as Interventions for Wildfire PreparednessCHI PLAY 2025
Eye Ball: Gazing as a Dilemma in a Competitive Virtual Reality GameCHI Games & Play 2024
Participatory Design of a Serious Game to Improve Wildfire Preparedness with Community Residents and ExpertsCHI Games & Play 2024
Virtual Games, Real Interactions: A Look at Cross-reality Asymmetrical Co-located Social GamesCHI Games & Play 2024
Games and Play SIG: Connecting Through Social and Playful TechnologiesCHI Games & Play 2023
Co-Imagining the Future of Playable Cities: A Bottom-Up, Multi-Stakeholder Speculative Inquiry into the Playful Potential of Urban TechnologyCHI Games & Play 2022
Chasing Play on TikTok from Populations with Disabilities to Inspire Playful and Inclusive Technology DesignCHI Games & Play 2021
The Playful Potential of Shared Mealtime: A Speculative Catalog of Playful Technologies for Day-to-day Social Eating ExperiencesCHI PLAY 2021
Chasing Play with Instagram: How Can We Capture Mundane Play Potentials to Inspire Interaction Design?CHI Games & Play 2020
Designing and Evaluating 'In the Same Boat', A Game of Embodied Synchronization for Enhancing Social PlayCHI Games & Play 2020
MESMER: Towards a Playful Tangible Tool for Non-Verbal Multi-Stakeholder ConversationsCHI PLAY 2020
'In the Same Boat', : A Game of Mirroring Emotions for Enhancing Social PlayCHI Games & Play 2019
A design framework for playful wearablesFDG 2019
All the World (Wide Web)'s a Stage: A Workshop on Live StreamingCHI Games & Play 2019
Astaire: A Collaborative Mixed Reality Dance Game for Collocated PlayersCHI PLAY 2019
Chasing Play Potentials in Food Culture to Inspire Technology DesignCHI PLAY 2019
Designing 'True Colors': A Social Wearable that Affords VulnerabilityCHI Games & Play 2019
Playful Human-Food Interaction Research: State of the Art and Future DirectionsCHI PLAY 2019
"You're Giving Me Mixed Signals!": A Comparative Analysis of Methods that Capture Players' Emotional Response to GamesCHI Games & Play 2018
Bots & (Main)Frames: Exploring the Impact of Tangible Blocks and Collaborative Play in an Educational Programming GameCHI Games & Play 2018
Designing Future Social Wearables with Live Action Role Play (Larp) DesignersCHI Games & Play 2018
Firefly: A Social Wearable to Support Physical Connection of LarpersCHI Games & Play 2018
Games and Play SIG: Engaging Small Developer CommunitiesCHI Games & Play 2018
Social Affordances at Play: Game Design Toward Socio-Technical InnovationCHI Games & Play 2018
All the feels: designing a tool that reveals streamers' biometrics to spectatorsFDG 2017
Connecting through Play by DesignCHI PLAY 2017
Design, appropriation, and use of technology in larpsFDG 2017
Embodiment, collaboration, and challenge in educational programming games: exploring use of tangibles and mouseFDG 2017
Soma-Based Design TheoryCHI Games & Play 2017
Tangibles vs. Mouse in Educational Programming Games: Influences on Enjoyment and Self-BeliefsCHI Games & Play 2017
Toward understanding disciplinary divides within games researchFDG 2017
All the Feels: Introducing Biometric Data to Online Gameplay StreamsCHI PLAY 2016
Bridging the Physical Divide: A Design Framework for Embodied Learning Games and SimulationsCHI Games & Play 2016
Hotaru: The Lightning Bug GameCHI Games & Play 2016
Movement-based game guidelinesCHI Games & Play 2014
A new perspective for the games and entertainment communityCHI Games & Play 2013
Fidget widgets: secondary playful interactions in support of primary serious tasksCHI Games & Play 2013
Game user researchCHI Games & Play 2012
Games and entertainment community SIG: shaping the futureCHI Games & Play 2012
Scoop!: a movement-based math game designed to reduce math anxietyCHI Games & Play 2012
Scoop!: using movement to reduce math anxiety and affect confidenceFDG 2012
(invited) games and entertainment at CHI: towards forming a robust and ongoing communityCHI Games & Play 2011
Games and HCI: perspectives on intersections and opportunitiesCHI Games & Play 2011
Is more movement better?: a controlled comparison of movement-based gamesFDG 2011
Reactive animation and gameplay experienceFDG 2011
Designing games for learning: insights from conversations with designersCHI Games & Play 2010