Professor
Carrie Heeter
Contact
Room: 409 Communication Arts & Sciences BuildingPhone: 517-355-8372
Fax:415-681-6473
Email: heeter@msu.edu
Bio
Carrie Heeter is a Principal Investigator in the GEL Lab (Games, Entertainment and Learning), Creative Director for Virtual University Design and Technology and Adjunct Professor of Education. She has studied and designed interactive experiences from the early days of multimedia to the exciting promise of virtual reality and the amazing reach of the Internet. Games bring all of those strands together with remarkable potential. Heeter co-founded the Serious Game Design MA emphasis and teaches graduate classes in Design Research. Her recent game design work focuses on games to adapt to individual players’ play style and learning style, games to maintain and improve cognitive performance, and decision-making games. Her research focuses on the intersection of design, interactivity, and player impacts. She is editor in chief of investiGaming.com, an online gateway to research about gender, gaming, and computing and co-editor of the forthcoming book, Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New perspectives in gender, gaming, and computing.Current Courseload
TC 841: Design ResearchCredentials
Ph.D., Mass Media, Michigan State University 1984B.A., Communication, Michigan State University 1980
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow
National Merit Scholar
