Amy Claussen | Product + Design
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  • About My Work
  • Digital Medicine
  • Robotics & AI
  • Games & Mobile Entertainment
  • Theater, Film, & Digital Media
  • Personal Projects
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I build immersive technology experiences.

My work lives at the intersection of arts and technology, combining creative and technical elements to craft intuitive interactions with compelling narrative.

​I am a Product Manager at Pear Therapeutics, creating a gamified digital therapeutic for addiction. Previously, I was a Senior Designer and product owner at Anki, leading design for voice and cloud-integrated features on our newest IoT home robot, Vector. There, I helped create Cozmo, the entertainment robot who was the #1 best-selling premium toy of 2017. His engaging character and impressive AI has met over 2 million faces. Before creating robots, I designed gameplay features and ran live operations for mobile games, including The Sims Mobile (estimated 20 million installs in first 2 months post-launch), Tap Paradise Cove (top-20 grossing 3 years), and War Dragons (top-50 grossing 3 years), as well as contributed to SimCity Build-It and ​Episode. I started my career in the theatre and film worlds and continue to write plays, often with some kind of tech crossover.

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GDC 2017, "Unpopular Opinion: All Narrative is Linear"

Speaking

  • Bay Area Women in Games. “Cozmo Code Lab: Empowering Learning Through Creative Expression”. San Francisco, 2018.
  • Game Developer’s Conference. “Unpopular Opinion: All Narrative Is Linear.” San Francisco, 2017.
  • Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. “Bringing Cozmo to Life: Designing Robots with Personality”. Pittsburgh, 2017.
  • PixelArts Games Academy. “Bringing Cozmo to Life: Designing Robots with Personality”. Pakistan (via Video Conference), 2017.
  • Girl Geek Dinner. “Conversations Worth Having: Communicating on Multidisciplinary Teams”. San Francisco, 2015.
  • Pocket Gems University. “StoryMath: a Solution for Storytelling.” San Francisco, 2013.
  • Guest Educator and Mentor for California Academy of Sciences, Girls Who Code, Maven Queer Tech Camps, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Bethlehem Haven Women’s Shelter.