Katja Rogers

About Katja Rogers

Dr. Katja Rogers is a graduate of the Computer Science Ph.D. program of the Institute of Media Informatics at Ulm University, Germany. In her graduate studies, she was a visiting scholar with the St Andrews Computer-Human Interaction (SACHI) research group in Scotland, spent a semester abroad at the National Taiwan University, and undertook two research visits with the HCI Games Group in Waterloo. As a postdoctoral researcher within Dr. Lennart Nacke's research group, her research interests and current projects at the HCI Games Group focus on the effects of audio on player experience, embodied interaction in mixed reality, how games and digital technologies can improve wellbeing and fidelity/realism in virtual reality.

An Interview With Horror Sound Designer Orest Sushko || Part III – What Horror Games Can Learn From The Sound Design of Horror Movies

August 29, 2018 by Katja Rogers

This is the third and final blog post in our interview series with Orest Sushko, a sound designer who has an extensive portfolio in audio design and collaborated with many big-name directors, including David Cronenberg Guillermo Del Toro.

An Interview With Horror Sound Designer Orest Sushko || Part II – Eliciting Emotions In Different Genres

August 15, 2018 by Katja Rogers

This is the second part of an interview series with Orest Sushko, a sound designer and re-recording mixer who has an extensive portfolio in audio design, and who has collaborated with a number of big-name directors including David Cronenberg and Guillermo Del Toro.

An Interview With Horror Sound Designer Orest Sushko || Part I – What Is A Sound Designer?

August 7, 2018 by Katja Rogers

Orest Sushko – Biography As a re-recording mixer, Orest’s work in shaping the soundtracks for film and television has garnered him two Emmy nominations, an Emmy award, twelve Gemini nominations, three Genie nominations, a Genie award, two CSA nominations, and a CAS (Cinema Audio Society) Award. He is also the recipient of an International Monitor …