sticky++Investigators
David Williamson Shaffer
David Williamson Shaffer is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the departments of Educational Psychology and Curriculum and Instruction and a Game Scientist at the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory. He is the chief PI on the Epistemic Games grants.
Naomi Chesler
Naomi C. Chesler is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the department of Biomedical Engineering with affiliate appointments in the departments of Medicine and Mechanical Engineering.
Lew Friedland
Lew Friedland is a professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and an affiliated professor in the Department of Sociology. He founded and directs the Center for Communication and Democracy.
Michael Gleicher
Michael Gleicher is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Computer Sciences. His research interests include computer graphics, multimedia, and visualization.
Asli Gocmen
Asli Gocmen is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is working with the Epistemic Games Group on the game Urban Science.
Art Graesser
Art Graesser is presently a professor in the Department of Psychology, an adjunct professor in Computer Science, and co-director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. He is the current editor of Journal of Educational Psychology, previous editor of Discourse Processes, president of ST&D, and previous president of AIED.
Paul Kirschner

Paul A. Kirschner is professor of Educational Psychology and Programme Director of Research on Learning and Cognition in the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies at the Open Universiteit Nederland. He has worked with the Epistemic Games group on the validation of an assessment of urban planning expertise.
Morten Misfeldt
Morten Misfeldt is associate professor at the Danish School of Education’s Department for Curriculum research. He works with the role of external representations in cognitive, scientific activity, and with the design of social learning games.
Robert Mislevy
Robert Mislevy is a professor of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation at the University of Maryland, and affiliated professor of Second Language Acquisition and of Survey Methodology. His research interests apply developments in statistics, technology, and cognitive research to practical problems in educational assessment.
Andre Rupp
Andre Rupp is an associate professor at the University of Maryland in the Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation. His current statistical research interests specifically center around cognitively-grounded assessment approaches and associated statistical models, which broadly fall under the umbrella terms diagnostic measurement / cognitively diagnostic assessment and diagnostic classification models (DCMs) / cognitive diagnosis models.
Kris Scopinich
Kris Scopinich is Education Director at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary. Her interest is in developing learning environments that encourage youth to explore their connection to the environment as well as the role they can play in its conservation.
