BRENDA LAUREL Brenda Laurel is a designer, performer, researcher and writer whose work focuses on interactive narrative, human-computer interaction and cultural aspects of technology. Her doctoral dissertation was the first to propose a comprehensive architecture for computer-based interactive fantasy and fiction. Laurel was one of the founding members of the research staff at Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto, California, where she coordinated research activities exploring gender and technology and co-produced and directed the Placeholder Virtual Reality project. Her work at Interval led to the founding of Purple Moon, a software company making products for girls. Laurel was a founder and vice president of Design at Purple Moon until its acquisition by Mattel in 1999. She has also worked as a software designer, producer and researcher for companies including Atari, Activision and Apple. Laurel has edited The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design (1990) and wrote Computers as Theatre (1991). She has published extensively on topics including interactive fiction, computer games, autonomous agents, virtual reality and political and artistic issues in interactive media. Related literature: Brenda Laurel, Computers As Theatre Brenda Laurel, Art of Human-Computer Interface Design Peter Lunenfeld, ed., Digital Dialectic Links provided in association with Amazon.com.