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.
