Publications
Li, P., Zhao, B., Soga, K., & Comfort, L. (2024). Exploring Wildfire Evacuation Strategies for Diverse Communities. Transportation Research Record, 2678(11), 719-735. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241242374
Soga, K., Comfort, L., Li, P., Zhao, B., & Lorusso, P. (2024). Testing Wildfire Evacuation Strategies and Coordination Plans for Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Communities in California. UC Office of the President: University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.7922/G2XK8CX7
MJ Johns, Emmanuel Chinedum Ezenwa, Seunghyun Lee, Thomas Maiorana, Ciel Wood, Josh D Levano, Rita Aksum Tesfay, Michael Takami, Cameron A Dodd, Madison Li, Hanne Manning, Regis Pak, Lily Chen, Ria K Saini, Mário Escarce, Mennatullah Hendawy, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Edward F. Melcer, and Katherine Isbister. (2024). Participatory Design of a Serious Game to Improve Wildfire Preparedness with Community Residents and Experts. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 261, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650735
Zhao, B., & Wong, S. D. (2021). Developing Transportation Response Strategies for Wildfire Evacuations via an Empirically Supported Traffic Simulation of Berkeley, California. Transportation Research Record, 2675(12), 557-582. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981211030271
Soga, K., Comfort, L., Zhao, B., Lorusso, P., & Soysal, S. (2021). Integrating Traffic Network Analysis and Communication Network Analysis at a Regional Scale to Support More Efficient Evacuation in Response to a Wildfire Event. UC Office of the President: University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.7922/G21G0JJ7
Maiorana, Thomas (2020) Prototyping Resilience: Using games to engage communities in disaster response. In: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) 2020 Symposium., 9-17 Oct 2020, Ahmedabad, India. http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3678/
Johns, M. J., Tesfay, R., Junior, M. E., Ezenwa Jr, E., Maiorana, T., El-Nasr, M. S., Mecler, E. & Isbister, K. (2024). Info Overload: A Cooperative Evacuation Game. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.09559. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09559
Comfort, L.K. and S.M. Chang. 2025. Transition in dynamic events: The 2020 lightning complex fires in Northern California as an adaptive system. Risk Analysis. First published: March 13. (Early view). https://doi/10.1111/risa.70015
Linda Hirsch, Daeun Hwang, MJ Johns, and Katherine Isbister. 2025. HCI for Climate Resilience: Developing an Individual and Community Focused Framework through a Grounded Theory Approach. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1740–1757. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735695
Johns, M., Escarce Jr, M., Crosby, A., Lu, Y., Seif El-Nasr, M., Melcer, E. and Isbister, K. 2025. Wildfire Games: A Community Approach to Designing Serious Games as Interventions for Wildfire Preparedness. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. (2025).
MJ Johns, Linda Hirsch, Yiyang Lu, Bridget Ho, Anna Toledo, Tristyn Lai, Krithik Dhandapani, Edward Melcer, and Katherine Isbister. 2025. A Playful Wildfire Simulation System in Two Minigames. In Companion Proceedings Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY Companion ’25), October 13–16, 2025, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3744736.3749192
Escarce Junior, M., Johns, M., Shukla, S., Lee, D., Lu, Y., Toledo, A., Lai, T., Ho, B., Dhandapani, K., Isbister, K., & Seif El‑Nasr, M. (2025). Fostering Collaborative Knowledge‑building and Resilience Through Player Discourse in Serious Games for Wildfire Preparedness. In JCSG 2025: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Serious Games (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, to be published). Rotkreuz, Switzerland: Springer.
MJ Johns, Yael Nidam Kirsht, Mário Escarce Junior, Linda Hirsch, Yiyang Lu, Bridget Ho, Anna Toledo, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Stephen Collier, Edward Melcer, and Katherine Isbister 2025. Translating Social Dilemmas into Gameful Designs for Wildfire Resilience. Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System (2025). https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3720171
A Playful Wildfire Simulation System in Two Minigames. M.J. Johns, Linda Hirsch, Yiyang Lu, Bridget Ho, Anna Toledo, Tristyn Lai, Krithik Dhandapani, Edward F. Melcer, and Katherine Isbister. 2025. In Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY Companion ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 245–252. https://doi.org/10.1145/3744736.3749192
Building Resilience Through Community-Centered Gameful Design. M.J. Johns. 2025. In Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY Companion ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 265–269. https://doi.org/10.1145/3744736.3749327
Wildfire Games: A Community Approach to Designing Serious Games as Interventions for Wildfire Preparedness. M.J. Johns, Mário Escarce Junior, Alison Crosby, Yiyang Lu, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Edward F. Melcer, and Katherine Isbister. 2025. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 6, Article GAMES006 (October 2025), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3748601