Katherine Isbister is a Human Computer Interaction and Games researcher who creates and studies digital games and other playful computer-supported experiences. Her focus is emotion and social connection–understanding the impact of design choices on these qualities, and getting better at building and evaluating technology that supports and enhances social and emotional experience. Her lab group's work has been cited in Wired, Scientific American, and NPR, among other venues. Katherine is currently a professor in the Department of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the Center for Games and Playable Media. Prior to UCSC, she was the founding Research Director of the Game Innovation Lab at NYU's School of Engineering. ________________________________________________ Free and open to the public, the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12:00 pm Pacific time and is hosted live in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Register online by the Monday before the talk for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE @citrisnews. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel after the event has transpired: https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/playlists