Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication
Director, Mobile Gaming Lab

Research Interests:

• new media, mobile interfaces, hybrid reality games, multi-user environments

Home Page: http://www.souzaesilva.com
E-mail: souzaesilva [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• Faculty member of Science, Technology, and Society Program
• Former senior researcher at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
• Former visiting scholar at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts

Research interests:

• Media Studies (visual communication, gender, new technologies); rhetorics of immortality in technology advertising and pop culture

Home Page: http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/communication/
www/faculty/faculty_profiles/stein/index.html
E-mail: sarah_stein [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• Numerous film credits and awards
• Coolidge scholar in residence (NYC)
• Frye Institute Fellow (Atlanta)
• Founder of NCSU Teaching, Learning & Technology Roundtable

Dr. R. Michael Young
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
Director, Liquid Narrative Group
Co-Director, Center for Digital Entertainment

Research Interests:

• artificial intelligence, planning algorithms, discourse generation and computational models of interactive narrative

Home Page: http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/Home.html
E-mail: young [at] csc [dot] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• Director, North Carolina Serious Games Initiative
• Editor in Chief, Journal of Game Development

Patrick FitzGerald
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design
Director, College of Design Advanced Media Lab
Lead Professor,  Animation and New Media Graduate Program at the College of Design

Research Interests:

• multimedia research and production (from experimental digital video for installation to interactive 3D animation for PDA devices)

Home Page: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~pfitz
E-mail: pfitz [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• MFA: Cranbrook Academy of Art
• Received national and international awards for his digital illustrations.
• In 1999, received a North Carolina Fellowship for the Visual Arts.
• Exhibited installations with design teams in the North Carolina Museum of Art (1998; IDM), The Witherspoon Museum (2000; IDM), The Other Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Canada (2003, Erroll Willett), The Other Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Canada (2003, Elaine Whitaker). In 2005, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design exhibited an interactive installation “Consumer Culture Garden” produced by the EAT Collaborative (FitzGerald, FitzGerald, Milsaps, Robertson, Raymond).
• Served as an instructor, artist and manager at the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine