Tacticity awarded R & D grant

The startup I am founding to develop novel haptics (touch-based) platforms has been awarded an R & D grant by the Georgia Research Alliance!

Posted May 5, 2012.

CHI 2012 Digital Arts Community

David England (of Liverpool Johns Moore University) and I are the founding chairs of the new Digital Arts Community at the CHI computer science conference. Events include a panel on the arts and innovation, a course on interdisciplinary collaboration, and two special interest group meetings, one on arts research and one on evaluation. See the program here.

Posted May 5, 2012.

Integrated Art and Engineering Exhibition!

Students from my Integrated Art and Engineering course presented their projects in a juried critique at the Clough Student Commons on April 24. The work will be up through the end of finals.

Posted April 27, 2012

ISEC 2012, IEEE STEM Conference

I know, enough with the acronyms already!

I presented a STEM to STEAM paper on the integrated art and engineering course I founded at Georgia Tech. It was interesting to see so many innovative, project-based curriculums presented. Unfortunately, it became clear during the conference that teaching to the test in K-12 doesn't allow room for these lessons, regardless of how well they will prepare students for the creative innovation economy.

Posted Mar 12, 2012

TEI 2012 was lovely, as usual

I presented our research on the creative practices of artists and engineers. TEI has a real handle on the future of technology. You should go next year.

Posted Feb 22, 2012

Dale Dougherty and Joel Rosenberg (O'Reilly, Make) visit the Invention Studio

Dale and Joel spent time with GaTech artists, engineers, and makers discussing their vision to put Maker's Spaces in 1000 K-12 schools in four years. May the wind be at their back!

Now how can I connect them with the community at ISEC?

Posted Feb 14, 2012