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Dr. Jeffrey Ritchie

Jeffrey Ritchie

Chair and Professor of Design, Media, and Technology

Email: ritchie@lvc.edu

Phone: 717-867-6249

Office Location: Clyde A. Lynch 119-A

B.A., B.S., Indiana University; M.A., University of South Carolina: M.Ed., Ph.D., Arizona State University

Expertise:
Behavioral economics/choice architectures applied to user experience/interaction design, interactive and locative/spatial storytelling, and interaction/user experience design for emerging media

Research & Practice Areas:
Video games and narrative, locative and spatial narratives, Behavioral economics/choice architectures applied to user experience/Interaction design, interactive and locative/spatial storytelling, interaction/user experience design for emerging media

Dr. Jeff Ritchie is a storyteller and interaction and user experience designer interested in interactive storytelling and emerging media.

Consulting: Qualitative Research for area companies

  • “Robert Burns and William Wordsworth: Positioning of a Romantic Artist in the Literary Marketplace.” republished in Jennifer Stock, ed., Patrick Scott, Academic advisor, Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800, vol. 311: Robert Burns (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale/Cengage, in association with Layman Poupard Publishing, 2022). pp. 184-188.
  • “The Affordances and Constraints of Mobile Locative Narratives,” Digital Storytelling with Mobile Media: Locative Technologies and Narrative Practices, Jason Farman, editor. Routledge Press, 2013.
  • “Introduction.” The International Digital Media and Arts Association Journal. Vol. 6, number 1, Fall 2009.
  • “What Might Yet….” The International Digital Media and Arts Association Journal. Vol. 5, number 1, Fall 2008.
  • “Navigating the Gap: The Rhetoric of Digital Space and Interactive Narratives.” The International Digital Media and Arts Association Journal– Vol. 4, number 2 Spring 2007. Peer-reviewed.
  • “Digital Media and Change: A Literary/Historical Perspective.” The International Digital Media and Arts Association Journal. Vol. 4, number 1, Fall 2007.
  • “A Media in its Infancy and ‘Plaintext’ in the Ivory Tower.” The International Digital Media and Arts Association Journal. Vol.3, number 1, Fall 2006.
  • “Robert Burns and William Wordsworth: Positioning of a Romantic Artist in the Literary Marketplace.” Studies in Scottish Literature. Vol. 30. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. 129 – 136.

Reviews

  • Reviewer. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Sage Publishing. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/con. Spring 2020.
  • Textbook Reviewer, Exploring Interface Design by Marc Silver, Delmar Cengage. Fall 2011.
    “Review of Anthony Wilhelm’s Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society.” Journal for Cultural and Religious Thought. Vol.8, number 1, Winter, 2006.
  • Principles of Interaction Design
  • Interaction design studio I and II
  • Capstone Research and Development
  • Augmented Reality
  • Emerging Media