Regan Mandryk is a professor in Computer Science at the
University of Saskatchewan; she pioneered the area of physiological
evaluation for computer games in her award-winning Ph.D. research at
Simon Fraser University with support from Electronic Arts. With over
200 publications that have been cited thousands of times (including
one of Google Scholar’s 10 classic papers in HCI from 2006), she
continues to investigate novel ways of understanding players and their
experiences, but also develops and evaluates games for health and
wellbeing, and games that foster interpersonal relationships. Regan
has been the invited keynote speaker at several international game
conferences, led Games research in the Canadian GRAND Network,
organizes international conferences including the inaugural CHI PLAY,
the inaugural CHI Games Subcommittee, and CHI 2018, and leads the
first ever Canadian graduate training program on games user research
(SWaGUR.ca) with $2.5 million of support from NSERC. She was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists
and Scientists in 2014, received the University of Saskatchewan New
Researcher Award in 2015, the Canadian Association for Computer
Science’s Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Science Researcher Prize
in 2016, and the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship in 2018.