Paging Dr. Gina

Congratulations to Gina Svarovsky, who officially became the first Dr. of Epistemic Games yesterday! Gina’s dissertation will be available on the website here soon, and she will be going on to work at the Science Museum of Minnesota in the spring.

Gina’s dissertation is one of the first studies to use Epistemic Network Analysis to look at the impact of specific parts of a game on the development of professional thinking. Her study of Digital Zoo found that interactions with clients and reflections in an engineering notebook play a key role in making the values and epistemology of engineering explicit for players.

As the first graduate student in the Epistemic Games Group, Gina was instrumental in helping to establish the research directions and practices of the group. We will miss her very much, wish her well in in future ventures, and hope that from time to time she will drop in with a post on news epistemic!