Partner Technologies Research Group

Alex Mitchell is pursuing his PhD at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, where he is attached to the Partner Technologies Research Group. His thesis research focuses on designing computational authoring tools for interactive storytelling.

Alex is also an instructor in the Communications and New Media Programme at the National University of Singapore. He is currently on no-pay leave to pursue his studies, but continues to teach his class in interactive storytelling. Before joining NUS, he was a lecturer at the School of Design (now School of Interactive Digital Media, Nanyang Polytechnic, where he taught and developed projects in interactive media and games. Alex has worked as an interaction designer at IDEO, London, and at Kent Ridge Digital Labs (now I2R), Singapore. He has a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. His work has been shown at SIGGRAPH'98, at the Science Museum in London, at Graphite 2004 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and as part of the Creative Curating Lab at the Singapore Art Show 2005.

Alex occasionally blogs about his ongoing research.

Publications

• Mitchell, A. and Montfort, N., "Shaping Stories and Building Worlds on Interactive Fiction Platforms", in Proceedings of Digital Art and Culture 2009, University of California Irvine, December 2009.


• Mitchell, A. and McGee, K., "Designing Storytelling Games That Encourage Narrative Play", in ICIDS 2009 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Guimarães, Portugal, December 2009. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.


• Mitchell, A. and McGee, K., "Designing Hypertext tools to facilitate authoring multiple points-of-view stories", in ACM Hypertext 2009, Torin, Italy, 2009. The original publication is available in the ACM Digital Library.


• Mitchell, A., "Narrative Production and Interactive Storytelling", in Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, 13, 2008.


• Mitchell, A., "Blogs and Collaborative Learning", in Experiments in Pedagogy, 2, 2007.


• Das, T., Singh, G., Mitchell, A., Kumar, P.S., and McGee, K. "NetEffect: A Network Architecture for Large-Scale Multi-User Virtual Worlds", in Proceedings of VRST'97, ACM Press, New York, 1997, pp. 157-163.


• Posner, I.R., Baecker, R.M., and Mitchell, A. "Evaluating Real Users, Using Real Software, Performing Real Tasks, in Real Contexts", in Proceedings of HCI International '97, Elsevier, 1997, pp. 597-600.


• Das, T., Singh, G., Mitchell, A., Kumar, P.S., and McGee, K. "Developing Social Virtual Worlds using NetEffect", in Proceedings of WETICE'97, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, 1997, pp.148-154.


• Posner, I.R., Mitchell, A., and Baecker, R.M., "Learning to Write Together", in Groupware and Authoring, Rada, R. (ed.), Academic Press, 1996, pp. 161-185.


• Mitchell, A., Posner, I.R., and Baecker, R.M., "Learning to Write Together Using Groupware", in Proceedings of CHI '95, Denver, Colorado, May 1995, pp. 288-295. The original publication is available in the ACM Digital Library.


• Baecker, R.M., Glass, G., Mitchell, A., and Posner, I.R., "SASSE: the Collaborative Editor", 8 minute refereed video tape presented at CHI '94; also published in SIGGRAPH Video Review 97, 1994.

Teaching

2009/2010 Semester 1:

• NM3222 Interactive Storytelling

Previously taught at National University of Singapore:

• NM2216 Introduction to Interactive Media
• NM2217 Creating Interactive Media
• NM3216 Game Design
• NM3221 Situated Interaction Design
• NM4209 Advanced Game Design
• CS3342 Interactive Media Development Project
• CS4343 Game Development Project
• UAR2205 Narrative and Play in Interactive Media

Previously taught at Nanyang Polytechnic:

• DN2301 Graphical User Interface Design
• DS2371 Web Design I
• DN2380/IT2932 Principles of Game Design
• DN2463/DN3363 Web Design 2
• DN3364 Interaction Design

Awards

• 2nd NGS Student Symposium, 5 February 2010, Winner Best presentation: "Interactive Stories as Rule-Systems: Learning from Game Design"
• TheatreWorks 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2009, 18-19 July 2009, Joint winner of 3rd place (open category): "Remembering"
• NUS Annual (University) Excellent Teaching Award 2007-2008
• FASS Faculty Excellent Teaching Award 2007-2008
• FASS Faculty Excellent Teaching Award 2006-2007
• FASS Faculty Excellent Teaching Award 2005-2006