FACULTY RESEARCH
Funded research led by Digital Media faculty:
Carl DiSalvo
growBot Garden
Students:
growBot Garden is a speculative public design project that brings together designers, artists, researchers, farmers and other food producers to ask: How might robotics and sensing technologies be used in support of local small-scale agriculture? The growBot Garden project includes participatory workshops, exhibitions, prototypes, presentations, and publications.
Brian Magerko
Modeling Creative and Emotive Improvisation in Theatre Performance
Students: Benjamin Medler
Dr.Brian Magerko`s "Modeling Creative and Emotive Improvisation in Theatre Performance" is a three-year NSF grant that studies creativity in improvisation in both standard theatrical techniques where a script`s interpretation, including the physical performance, is improvised by an actor, and "improve theatre," where entire scenes are created by actors in real-time through improvisation. Dr. Magerko is working on the project in collaboration with Dr. Sharon Carnicke, Dr. Jonathan Gratch, Dr. Stacy Marsalla, Dr. Celia Pearce, and Dr. Mark Riedl.
Janet Murray
InTEL Project
Students: Calvin Ashmore, Brian Schrank, Geoffrey Thomas
InTEL is a statics learning program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. InTEL aims to assist in creating initial learning environments that encourage and motivate students to become engineers. The program also focuses on attracting and retaining a diverse group of engineering students.
Michael Nitsche
Digital World & Image Group (DWIG)
Students:
Dr. Michael Nitsche's Digital World & Image Group (DWIG) aims to improve understanding, expression, and creative use of digital spaces as they blend into the physical environment. This includes research sponsored by the NSF Creative IT grant on tangible interfaces (together with Ali Mazalek's Synlab) and work on mobile cross-media development supported by Alcatel Lucent.
Celia Pearce
Productive Play: Convergence of Work and Play in Online Games and Virtual Worlds
Students:
Dr. Celia Pearce`s "Productive Play: Convergence of Work and Play in Online Games and Virtual Worlds" is an NSF-funded conference for the study of relations between work and play in online virtual environments and the cultivation of the development of critical tools for incorporating play into work environments in a productive manner. The workshop was organized with Dr. Bonnie Nardi, a professor in the Department of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and Jason Ellis, a Research Scientist at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.