Publications
Stephanie's books have been listed in 100 Best VR Books of All Time and 100 Best AR Books of All Time and incorporated into curriculums at Harvard, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, USC and more. Her academic papers have been published at ACMSIGGRAPH and IEEE.
RECENT
WRITING
Riggs’ work continually returns to this tension between inherited narrative traditions and emerging experiential forms, suggesting that the most interesting creative breakthroughs occur not by adapting old storytelling models to new technologies, but by recognizing that the medium itself reshapes how humans construct meaning, presence, and story.
BOOK
Quantum Narratives
For centuries, Western storytellers have centered stories around character and plot-and interactive media has largely followed. But as technology transforms how we create and experience stories, these traditional frameworks create an unavoidable conflict. Riggs weaves together insights from science, storytelling, and today's technology to unlock new possibilities for story, offering a bold new direction for the future. Revolutionary, research-backed, and deeply provocative, "Quantum Narratives" challenges everything we assume about stories and how those assumptions affect us all. Sold out at SXSW 2024
PAPERS
PUBLISHED RESEARCH
Evaluating Embodied Navigation in Virtual Reality Environments (IEEE, 2018) Holojam in Wonderland: Immersive Mixed Reality Theater (SIGGRAPH, 2018) “Kanju”: Integrating HCI to tell better stories in immersive environments (SIGGRAPH, 2016) Creating Digital Societies in VR (SIGGRAPH, 2016)
Glimpses
