Hammer Earns Okawa Foundation Research Grant
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HCII Assistant Professor Jessica Hammer has received a 2015 Okawa Foundation Research Grant to support her research, "Games for Impact: A Full Pipeline Approach."
Founded in 1986, the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications promotes and develops the information and telecommunications technologies field through awards and grants, as well as efforts to nurture researchers, engineers and providers. The foundation's Research Grant program provides qualified researchers from select universities in the U.S., Japan and other Asian nations with a one-year, $10,000 grant to further their work in fields including communications/Internet, computer systems, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, applications, and humanities and social sciences.
Hammer, who holds a joint appointment in CMU's Entertainment Technology Center, will use the funds to continue her work on games that change the way players think, feel and behave.
"It's an honor to be part of such an exceptional group of researchers," Hammer said.
Hammer will join nine other U.S. Research Grant recipients for an award ceremony on Monday, Sept. 21, in San Francisco.
For more in the Okawa Foundation, visit its website.