Stephen
Schafer

Personal Information

First Name: 
Stephen
Last Name: 
Schafer
Job Title/Job Description: 
Senior Lecturer, past chairman dept of humanities & soc sci
Organization: 
Digipen Institute of Technology

Bio

Professor Schafer has been a senior manager in both the public and private sectors and has taught Humanities at several colleges and universities. He is Past-Chairman of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Digipen where, for ten years, he has taught an array of classes that emphasize mythology, symbolism, language, interactive narrative, and cognitive models.  He is developing a theoretical framework—the Psychecology Game—in which a genre of SBGs may be used as a research instrument to access robust data relative to unconscious cognitive states. He has presented at GDCAustin 2008, the Game Education Summit 2009 (Carnegie Mellon University), and the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference (Hong Kong 2009) co-sponsored by the Center for Consciousness Research at the University of Arizona and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  Professor Schafer co-organized a day-long invitational workshop (Meaningful Media) that was attended by an international group including scholars, media professionals, and producers.