Rilla Khaled
Assistant Professor
Center for Computer Games Research
IT University of Copenhagen
Denmark
rikh@itu.dk
My interests lie at the intersection of culture, persuasion, games, and tools. In particular, I am interested in how culture, most simply represented by the "East-West" divide, moderates both how people perceive persuasion in game and technology interactions, and equally how designers incorporate motivation and affordances into interfaces. Additionally, I seek to establish how best to design interaction for games and other persuasive technologies that support people's attitude change goals while accounting for their cultural assumptions and interpretations. As my background is in software engineering and cross-cultural psychology, my interests extend from the software-level design and development of tools up to their high level usage as cultural artefacts.