Judith Pintar
Teaching Associate Professor and Acting BS/IS Program Director
PhD, Sociology, Illinois
Research focus
Social Informatics, interactive AI and suggestibility, and the development of tools to foster programming literacy through collaborative game design, interactive digital narrative, and playful pedagogies; social narrative approaches to trauma and memory studies.
Biography
Pintar serves as acting BS/IS program director at the iSchool and director of Games @ Illinois: Playful Design for Transformative Education. Her research and teaching interests include digital storytelling, game studies, and the development of interactive and narrative AI, which she pursues through the Electronic Literatures & Literacies Lab (EL3), an Informatics initiative.
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