Elisabeth Hayes is a professor at the Arizona State University. She brings to gaming research a background in adult education, specifically adult literacy education, gender studies, adult learning and diversity issues.

Her current research interests focus on gender, digital technologies and learning, particularly the development of IT fluency. She is a lead investigator on two MacArthur-funded projects: GameDesigner, a collaborative project with the NYC company gameLab to create innovative game design software that will help young people acquire technical, artistic, and cognitive skills, and the TechSavvy Girls project, which is investigating how gaming can be a starting point for the development of IT fluency, particularly for girls and women.

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