Elin Carstensdottir, is a human-computer interaction and games researcher. She is an Assistant Professor at Reykjavik University in Iceland.

Her research explores an array of topics including interactive narrative, serious games, intelligent virtual agents and virtual humans, video game design and development with a focus on narrative and AI, player experiences with AI in games, and social simulation. She is dedicated to studying and developing AI-augmented design and authoring tools for both academic and industry professionals within these domains, as well as developing research software and serious games aimed at education, health, and research.

You can find her book Designing Serious Games, co-authored with Dr. Magy Seif El-Nasr and Michael John, published by MIT Press here.

You can find her scientific publications here.

She received her PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

Elin is currently affiliated with RU’s Department of Computer Science, as well as the Computational Media Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. She leads the Interaction Dynamics lab.

She can be reached at elinc [at] ru[dot] is