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Meet Featured ACM Distinguished Speaker Regan Mandryk

Regan Mandryk is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Prior to moving to UVic, she was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan for 15 years where she was a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Digital Gaming Technologies and Experiences. Her long-term research objective is to design, develop, and evaluate novel technologies that improve the social, cognitive, and emotional wellbeing of people. She has been at the forefront of legitimizing games research in HCI, with more than 200 top-tier publications, including 29 best paper awards and nominations. Her lectures include "Innovations in Social Play."

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