Erik Andersen

Welcome

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. I am a member of the Center for Game Science, GRAIL, and dub, and my research advisor is Zoran Popović. My research focuses on techniques for the design and analysis of educational video games. I also take classes in the Technical Japanese Program.

I received my MS from the University of Washington and BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I worked with Dinesh Manocha and Ming Lin and was a member of GAMMA. I have also been an NSF Graduate Fellow, a visiting researcher in the Igarashi User Interface Lab at the University of Tokyo, and an exchange student at the National University of Singapore.

Games

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Erik Andersen, Yun-En Liu, Marianne Lee, Eric Butler, Brian Britigan, Stephen Sievers, Roy Szeto, Mai Dang, Christian Lee, Ethan Apter, Emma Lynch, Happy Dong, Justin Irwen, Seth Cooper, François Boucher-Genesse, Carmen Petrick, Zoran Popović, Taylor Martin

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Best Work in the Primary School Category, 38th NHK Japan Prize, 2011

Grand Prize: Best in Show Award, Disney Learning Challenge, SIGGRAPH 2010

Top 25, Kongregate Summer Mobile Game Contest 2011

Publications

	The Impact of Tutorials on Games of Varying Complexity Erik Andersen, Eleanor O'Rourke, Yun-En Liu, Richard Snider, Jeff Lowdermilk, David Truong, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popović CHI 2012 [website] [pdf] [related papers]
	On the Harmfulness of Secondary Game Objectives Erik Andersen, Yun-En Liu, Richard Snider, Roy Szeto, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popović Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2011 [website] [pdf] [related papers]
	Feature-Based Projections for Effective Playtrace Analysis Yun-En Liu, Erik Andersen, Richard Snider, Seth Cooper, Zoran Popović Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2011 [website] [pdf] [related papers]
	Placing a Value on Aesthetics in Online Casual Games Erik Andersen, Yun-En Liu, Richard Snider, Roy Szeto, Zoran Popović CHI 2011 [website] [pdf] [related papers] Best Note Nomination
	Character Animation in Two-player Adversarial Games Kevin Wampler, Erik Andersen, Evan Herbst, Yongjoon Lee, Zoran Popović ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 29, Num. 3, 2010 Presented at SIGGRAPH 2011 [website] [pdf]
	Gameplay Analysis through State Projection Erik Andersen, Yun-En Liu, Ethan Apter, François Boucher-Genesse, Zoran Popović Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2010 [website] [pdf] [related papers]
	Interactive Navigation of Heterogeneous Agents Using Adaptive Roadmaps Russell Gayle, Avneesh Sud, Erik Andersen, Stephen Guy, Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 15, Num. 1, Jan/Feb 2009 [website]
	Real-time Path Planning in Dynamic Virtual Environments Using Multi-agent Navigation Graphs Avneesh Sud, Erik Andersen, Sean Curtis, Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 14, Num. 3, May/Jun 2008 [website] [pdf]
	Real-time Navigation of Independent Agents Using Adaptive Roadmaps Avneesh Sud, Russell Gayle, Erik Andersen, Stephen Guy, Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2007 [website] [pdf] Best Paper Award
	Surface Distance Maps Avneesh Sud, Naga Govindaraju, Russell Gayle, Erik Andersen, Dinesh Manocha Graphics Interface 2007 [website] [pdf]
	Real-time Path Planning for Virtual Agents in Dynamic Environments Avneesh Sud, Erik Andersen, Sean Curtis, Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha IEEE Virtual Reality 2007 [website] [pdf]

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