Dr
Monica
Evans

Personal Information

Title: 
Dr
First Name: 
Monica
Last Name: 
Evans
Job Title/Job Description: 
Assistant Professor
Organization: 
University of Texas at Dallas, Arts and Technology Program

Bio

Monica Evans is an assistant professor of computer game design in the Arts and Technology Program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Evans has designed and developed serious games with numerous university partners, including the Dallas Museum of Art, Alcatel, Nortel, U. S. Army Training Doctrine and Command (TRADOC), Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), the Smart Hospital at UT Arlington, and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. She is affiliated with the Mobile Innovations Lab, the Virtual Worlds Lab, and the Institute for Interactive Arts and Engineering at UT Dallas, and with the Serious Games Initiative within the University of Texas System. Her most recent work can be seen in World of Warcraft and Philosophy (2009) and in the upcoming Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches (expected 2011). Dr. Evans is the principal investigator on the Digital Calculus Coach, a serious game project funded by University of Texas System, and is the project lead for the Values Games Initiative within the Center for Values in Science, Medicine, and Technology at UT Dallas.