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Matthew Sharritt
Matthew Sharritt (Ph.D.) is President and Co-founder of Situated Research, which specializes in user-experience research and usability testing within software and video games. Dr. Sharritt is a graduate of the interdisciplinary Communication and Information Sciences Ph.D. program (specializing in communication, computer and information science, human–computer interaction and IT management) and the Computer Science MS at the University of Hawai’i, where he served as a teaching assistant. Previously, he was webmaster at Time Warner Telecom while earning his BS at Marquette University in Computer Engineering. His research examines ways of maximizing self-efficacy, fun and flow through the design of engaging technologies: describing how learning in games can occur through play testing and exploration.
In his spare time Dr. Sharritt enjoys gaming, cooking and photography. You can read more about Dr. Sharritt and his research at his personal website, situatedgaming.com.