Expert Profile
Constance Steinkuehler

Professor of Informatics
Constance Steinkuehler researches the cognitive and social aspects of multiplayer online videogames and esports.
Areas of Expertise
- Teenage Boys and Gameplay
- eSports
- Computer Gaming
- Multiplayer Online Videogames
- Parenting and Videogames
Biography
Constance researches the cognitive and social aspects of multiplayer online videogames and esports. Current projects include studies of teenage boys and gameplay, parenting and videogames, and impacts of the NASEF high school esports league. She formerly served as Senior Policy Analyst under the Obama administration in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, advising on games and digital media, and founded the Higher Education Video Games Alliance (HEVGA), a national network of game-related programs.
Media




Media Appearances
Gaming Hub, Gaming Backers
Orange County Business Journal, 10/4/2021
Academic Esports Conference and Expo: Show preview
University Business, 5/20/2020
COVID-19: Social video games to play during the coronavirus quarantine
OrilliaMatters.com, 5/10/2020
Steinkuehler to keynote Academic Esports Conference
University Business, 3/26/2020
Outdated gaming equipment gets new life
UCI News, 7/9/2019
Articles
Mindfulness video game improves connectivity of the fronto-parietal attentional network in adolescents: A multi-modal imaging study
Scientific Reports
Esports Research: Critical, Empirical, and Historical Studies of Competitive Videogame Play
Games and Culture
Failing up: How failure in a game environment promotes learning through discourse
Thinking Skills and Creativity
Neural correlates of video game empathy training in adolescents: a randomized trial
npj Science of Learning
Game Design & Development Curriculum: History & Future Directions
presented at the Foundations of Digital Games 2017
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD, Literacy Studies, 2005
University of Wisconsin-Madison
MS, Cognitive Science Applied to Education, 2005
University of Missouri-Columbia
BA, Mathematics, Literature, Religious Studies, 1993