Researchers

Elisa Mekler was a post-doctoral fellow at the HCI Games Group. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Basel with special emphasis on Human-Computer Interaction. Her research focuses on the characteristics of enjoyable and meaningful user experiences with games, gamification, and interactive technology in general. She is particularly interested in why people sometimes value (mixed and negative) emotional experiences with technology, as well as the motivational mechanisms underlying gamification. Her publications have won best paper (top 1%) and best paper honourable mention awards (top 5%) at the premier human-computer interaction conferences CHI and CHI PLAY.