Mirjam P. Eladhari

Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari received the Ph.D. degree in computing science from the University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, U.K., in 2010. She is currently an Associate Professor with Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, game design, interactive narrative, and computational expression. A main theme of her work is cocreation, in particular how interactors can add elements to games and interactive narratives. Prof. Eladhari is a Board Member of HEVGA and ARDIN, and an active member of the EU project INDCOR (Interactive Narrative Design For Complexity Representation). She is the Principal Investigator in the newly started project Platform for Smart People (PSP) funded by Digital Futures. PSP will create a platform using IoT technologies and machine learning helping people with cognitive diversities, such as autism, in their everyday lives. She also works as an independent artist and game designer under the label Otter Play.