Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor

Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari (PhD) is Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Computer and System Sciences at Stockholm University in in Sweden, mainly teaching game design and game research methods. She is an independent game designer under the label Otter Play. Mirjam’s research is focused on AI-based game design and interactive narratives.
Current application areas include table top story-making games and games for mental health, which she explores through experimental prototypes. A main theme of her work is co-creation, in particular how interactors can add elements to games and interactive narratives in order to help them reflect on their own existence and gain new perspectives. 

Mirjam has worked as a lead game designer in professional capacities and various research projects, such as the EU project C2Learn. Mirjam is a board member of the Board of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA), Association for Digital Interactive Narratives (ARDIN), and of Society for the Advancement of the Study of Digital Games (SAGDS) which is responsible for the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) conference's. Currently (2020) she is the vice chair of the EU COST Action INDCOR (CA18230 - Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representations). During 2021 She will act as an independent reviewer for the EC, in regards to the "A European AI On Demand Platform and Ecosystem" (AI4EU). The results of AI4EU will feed a new and comprehensive Strategic Research Innovation Agenda for Europe.