Aditya Anupam
Postdoctoral Researcher, Game Designer/Programmer
School of Literature, Media, and Communication,
Georgia Institute of Technology
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher and Game Designer/Developer at the
School of Literature, Media, and Communication
at Georgia Tech. I work at the intersection of Digital Media and Education as part of the
Design and Social Justice Studio led by
Dr. Nassim Parvin. I received my Ph.D. in
Digital Media in December 2021 from the same department.
Anchored in feminist, STS, and pragmatist
scholarship, I explore digital media––particularly games, simulations,
and interactive visualizations––as environments to foster
the learning of science and engineering as situated practices. I have published
and given talks in multiple ACM, IEEE, and 4S venues on education,
digital media, and science and technology studies (STS). You can view
my dissertation abstract
here.
In addition to research, I have designed and taught
two undergraduate courses on Game Design
at Georgia Tech. As an instructor, I drew on my research in education
to marry evidence-based pedagogy with novel and experimental
approaches to learning. For my contributions to teaching, I was
awarded "Graduate Instructor of the Year" (Campus-wide) by
Georgia Tech and "Outstanding Graduate Instructor (2020)"
and "Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant (2019)" by my
department.
Psi and Delta (Particle in a Box)
Unity (C#) | Systems Design | Level Design
Psi and Delta is a collaborative classroom videogame that enables
students to learn introductory Quantum Mechanics, together. It
builds on my previous single player game Particle in a Box.
Essential Workers
P5.js/HTML/CSS | Systems Design | Narrative Design
Essential Workers is a cooperative game about a community working
together to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lights Out Warehouse
Unity (C#) | Systems Design | Narrative Design
Ongoing: This project aims to engage
players with the socio-political dimensions of doing ethics as an
automation engineer in a big tech organization.
A Situated History of Atomic Models
D3.js | Prototype
Ongoing: This project puts forward a
critique of traditional historical narratives of science in the form
of a digital interactive visualization of the history of atomic
research in the 18th and 19th century.
Heart Sense
Arduino | Processing (Java) | Biometric Sensors
Ongoing: Heart Sense brings together
humanities and physiology scholars to create a series of
visualizations and art installation to reflect upon how we
understand and experience physiological data, especially the
heartbeat.
The Co-production of Knowledge
Unity (C#) | UI/UX
This interactive visualization aims to demonstrate the different
understandings, terminologies, and vocabularies used by experts in
both molecular biology and reproductive justice advocacy.