Jessica Hammer
Associate Professor of Learning Sciences
Director, Center for Transformational Play
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Campus Address
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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CMU at CHI 2025
Our halls are abuzz with talk of “CHI” (pronounced “kai”), the nickname for the upcoming conference on computer human interaction (CHI). ...
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Using Virtual Reality to Connect Players With Ocean Ecosystems
Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Unive...
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SCS Research Highlights Kids' Role in AI
Seated at a laptop and surrounded by other students, a young girl asked an image generator powered by artificial intelligence to create a ...
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![Vivian facilitating a demo at UIST 2023. [This image is from the official ACM UIST photo album]](/sites/default/files/styles/person_profile_image_600x400/public/2024-04/UIST-demo.jpg.webp?itok=LQUjuJMT)
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 ...
Related Projects
ProjectEcho of the Abyss
Echo of the Abyss is a Virtual Reality (VR) experience that uses animal guides and immersive environments to cultivate a sense of kinship towards marine l...
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...