Jessica Hammer
Associate Professor of Learning Sciences
Director, Center for Transformational Play
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
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Rand Building, Suite 101
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Jessica Hammer, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, is jointly appointed in the HCI Institute and the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on transformational games, which are games that change how players think, feel, or behave. She is also an award-winning game designer.
In the News
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HCII at UIST 2023
The 2023 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) was held in San Francisco, California from October 29 to November ...
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Carnegie Mellon University and Play Included® Bring LEGO® Brick Based Interventions to US
Brick by brick, Carnegie Mellon University is building a new way to transform children's social and emotional learning in schools and comm...
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AI Should Be Kind and Fair, Young Black Girls Tell CMU Researchers
When asked about future uses for artificial intelligence, a group of fifth- and sixth-grade Black students attending a summer camp at Carn...
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Carnegie Mellon University Launches Center for Transformational Play
Games can entertain. They can bring people together. They can transport players to new worlds, test skills and strategies, and encourage p...
Related Projects
ProjectEcho of the Abyss
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ProjectMonsters of Appalachia
Monsters of Appalachia is a game designed by the Center for Transformational Play at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a role-playing game designed to hel...
ProjectEye into AI
Recent developments in explainable AI (XAI) aim to improve the transparency of black-box models. However, empirically ...
ProjectPolyphonic
The Polyphonic project explores collecting real-world data by piggybacking on game streaming communities such as Twitch, which capture over a trillion min...