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Ph.D. Human-Centered Computing 
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S. Human-Computer Interaction 
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

B.S. Industrial Engineering, with a Computer Science focus 
College of Engineering, University of Iowa

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, HCI Institute, School of Computer Science

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Postdoctoral Scholar, Computer Science (with Scott Klemmer)

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Graduate Research Assistant, College of Computing (with Blair MacIntyre)

University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes, Research Scholar (with Bruce Thomas)

Intel Research, Seattle, WA
Research Intern (with James Landay)

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Program Manager Intern

Interactive Media Technology Center, Atlanta, GA
Graduate Research Assistant

Accenture Tech Labs, Chicago, IL
Research Analyst

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Undergraduate Research Assistant, GROK Lab

Interaction Design Studio, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Instructor

Understanding the Creative Process, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Instructor

Interaction Design Fundamentals, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Instructor

Crowdsourcing Research Seminar, Computer Science Dept, Stanford University
Instructor

Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Computer Science Dept, Stanford University
Instructor

Computing and Design Thinking, Computer Science Dept, Stanford University
Co-instructor, with Terry Winograd

Information Visualization, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Teaching Assistant for James Foley

Issues in Human-Centered Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Teaching Assistant for Elizabeth Mynatt

Augmented Reality Design, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Teaching Assistant for Blair MacIntyre and Jay Bolter

Human-Computer Interaction, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Teaching Assistant for Bruce Walker

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ywTbDsQAAAAJ

A Preliminary Study of Using Crowds in the Classroom, Steven P. Dow, Liz Gerber, and Audris Wong. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’13), Paris, France, 2013.

Let’s Get Together: The Formation and Success of Online Creative Collaborations, Burr Settles & Steven P. Dow. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’13), Paris, France, 2013.

Early and Repeated Exposure to Examples Improves Creative Work, Chinmay Kulkarni, Steven P. Dow, and Scott R. Klemmer. Cognitive Science Society (CogSci’12), Sapporo, Japan, 2012.

Shepherding the Crowd Yields Better Work, Steven P. Dow, Anand Kulkarni, Scott R. Klemmer, and Björn Hartmann. Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW’12), Seattle, WA, 2012.

Guidelines for Depicting Emotions in Storyboard Scenarios, Xiaojuan Ma, Jodi Forlizzi, Steven P. Dow. Proceedings of International Conf. on Design and Emotion (D&E’12), London, UK, 2012.

Prototyping Dynamics: Sharing Multiple Designs Improves Exploration, Group Rapport, and Results, Steven P. Dow, Julie Fortuna, Dan Schwartz, Beth Altringer, Daniel L. Schwartz, and Scott R. Klemmer. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’11), Vancouver, BC, CAN, 2011.

Families and Services: Understanding Opportunities for Co-Production of Value in Service Design, Jodi Forlizzi, Steven P. Dow, and John Zimmerman. Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (DPPI’11), Milan, Italy, 2011.

Eliza meets the Wizard–of–Oz: Blending Machine and Human Control of Embodied Characters, Steven P. Dow, Manish Mehta, Blair MacIntyre, and Michael Mateas. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’10), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2010.

Playing with Words: from Intuition to Evaluation of Game Dialogue Interfaces, Serdar Sali, Noah Wardip-Fruin, Steven P. Dow, Michael Mateas, Sri Kurniawan, Aaron A. Reed, and Ronald Liu. ACM International Conference On The Foundations Of Digital Games, Monterey, CA, USA, 2010.

The Efficacy of Prototyping Under Time Constraints, Steven P. Dow, Kate Heddleston, and Scott R. Klemmer. ACM SIGCHI Conf on Creativity and Cognition, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2009.

Agency Reconsidered, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Steven P. Dow, and Serdar Sali. In Conference on Digital Games Research (DiGRA’09), London, UK, 2009.

Styles of Play in Immersive and Interactive Story: Case Studies from a Gallery Installation of AR Façade, Steven P. Dow, Blair MacIntyre, and Michael Mateas. In ACM SIGCHI Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE’08), Yokohama, Japan, 2008.

Presence and Engagement in an Interactive Drama, Steven P. Dow, Manish Mehta, Ellie Harmon, Blair MacIntyre, and Michael Mateas. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’07), San Jose, CA, USA, 2007.

Evaluating a Conversation-centered Interactive Drama, Manish Mehta, Steven P. Dow, Michael Mateas, and Blair MacIntyre. In Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’07), 2007.

Initial Lessons from ARFaçade, An Interactive Augmented Reality Drama, Steven P. Dow, Manish Mehta, Annie Lausier, Blair MacIntyre, and Michael Mateas. In ACM SIGCHI Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE’06), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2006.  (Outstanding Paper Award)

External Representations in Ubiquitous Computing Design and the Implications for Authoring Tools, Steven P. Dow, T. Scott Saponas, Yang Li, and James A. Landay. In Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’06), State College, PA, USA, June 26-28, 2006.

Exploring Spatial Narratives and Mixed Reality Experiences in Oakland Cemetery, Steven P. Dow, Jaemin Lee, Christopher Oezbek, Blair MacIntyre, Jay D. Bolter, and Maribeth Gandy. In ACM SIGCHI Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE’05), Valencia, Spain, June, 2005.

DART: A Toolkit for Rapid Design Exploration of Augmented Reality Experiences, Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, Steven P. Dow, and Jay D. Bolter. In Proceedings of User Interface Software and Technology (UIST’04), Sante Fe, NM, USA., October 24-27, 2004. (Selected for "Reprise of UIST" at SIGGRAPH 2005, only three papers earn this distinction)

Signal Detection Performance with a Haptic Device, Steven P. Dow, Geb Thomas, and Lynn Johnson. In Proceedings of Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference (HFES’99), Houston, TX, USA, Sept 27-Oct 1, 1999.

Improving the Visual Experience for Mobile Robotics, Geb Thomas, William Robinson, and Steven P. Dow. In Proceedings of the Iowa Space Grant Conference, 1997.

Understanding User Engagement in Immersive and Interactive Stories, Steven P. Dow, PhD Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. Advisor: Blair MacIntyre. Committee: Jay Bolter, Mark Guzdial, Michael Mateas, Elizabeth Mynatt.

Projection, Place and Point-of-View in Research through Design, Steven P. Dow, Wendy Ju, and Wendy Mackay. In revision for The SAGE Handbook of Technology Research , Price, S., Jewitt, C., and Brown, B., eds., Sage Publishing, 2013.

Crowdsourcing in HCI Research, Serge Egelman, Ed H. Chi, Steven P. Dow. In revision for Ways of Knowing HCI, Olsen, J. and Kellogg, W., eds., Springer, 2012.

Supporting Early Design Activities for AR Experiences, Maribeth Gandy, Blair MacIntyre, Steven P. Dow, and Jay D. Bolter. In Emerging Technologies of Augmented Reality: Interfaces and Design, Haller, M., Billinghurst, M. and Thomas, B., eds., Idea Group Publishing, 2007.

Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy, Steven P. Dow, Alana Glassco, Jonathan Kass, Melissa Schwarz, Daniel L. Schwartz, Scott R. Klemmer. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 17(4), 2010.

Enhancing and evaluating users' social experience with a mobile phone guide applied to cultural heritage, Youngjung Suh, Choonsung Shin, Woontack Woo, Steven P. Dow, and Blair MacIntyre. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Nov, 2010.

Wizard of Oz Support throughout an Iterative Design Process, Steven P. Dow, Blair MacIntyre, Jaemin Lee, Christopher Oezbek, Jay D. Bolter, and Maribeth Gandy. In IEEE Pervasive Computing (Special Issue on Rapid Prototyping), November, 2005.

The Design and Testing of a Force Feedback Dental Simulator, Geb Thomas, Lynn Johnson, Steven P. Dow, and Clark Stanford. In the Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2001, pp 53-64.

An Initial Evaluation of the Iowa Dental Surgical Simulator, Lynn Johnson, Geb Thomas, Steven P. Dow, and Clark Stanford. In the Journal of Dental Education, December 2000, Vol. 64, pp 847 - 853.

Experiences Employing Novice Wizards in a Gallery Setting, Steven P. Dow and Blair MacIntyre. In International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC08), Pittsburgh, PA, 2008.

AR Karaoke: Acting in Your Favorite Scenes Maribeth Gandy, Blair MacIntyre, Peter Presti, Steven P. Dow, Jay D. Bolter, Brandon Yarbrough, Nigel O'Rear. In International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR05), Vienna, Austria, Oct. 6-8, 2005.

A Sketch Interface to Support Storyboarding of Augmented Reality Experiences Peter Presti, Maribeth Gandy, Blair MacIntyre, and Steven P. Dow In Extended Abstracts of SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Aug., 2005.

Wizard of Oz Interfaces for Mixed Reality Applications, Steven P. Dow, Jaemin Lee, Christopher Oezbek, Blair MacIntyre, Jay D. Bolter, and Maribeth Gandy In Extended Abstracts of Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'05), Portland, OR, USA, Apr. 2-7, 2005, pp 1339-43.

Family Health Heritage, Sarah Reeder, Jodi Forlizzi, Steven P. Dow. In Interactions, Jan-Feb 2013.

Research notebook: How design practices affect results, Steven P. Dow. In The Link magazine, Carnegie Mellon, Dec 2012.

How Prototyping Practices Affect Design Results, Steven P. Dow. In Interactions, May 2011.

Damn It Jim, I'm a Gamer Not a Therapist, Steven P. Dow. In Ambidextrous, June 2009.

Micro-volunteering: Helping the Helpers in Development, Michael Bernstein, Mike Bright, Ed Cutrell, Steven P. Dow, Elizabeth Gerber, Anupam Jain, and Anand Kulkarni. In Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW’13), San Antonio, TX, USA, 2013.

User Engagement in Physically Embodied Narrative Experiences, Steven P. Dow. In ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (CC’2007), Washington, DC, USA, 2007.

The Effect of Parallel Prototyping on Design Performance, Learning, and Self-Efficacy, Steven P. Dow, Alana Glassco, Jonathan Kass, Melissa Schwarz, and Scott R. Klemmer. CSTR-2009-02, 2009.

Shepherding the Crowd: Managing and Providing Feedback to Crowd Workers, Steven P. Dow, Brie Bunge, Truc Nguyen, Anand Kulkarni, Scott R. Klemmer, and Bjoern Hartmann. In extended abstracts of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’11), Vancouver, BC, CAN, 2011.

Using Crowds to Study Creativity, Steven P. Dow. In New Paradigms for Using Computer (NPUC’10) and CrowdConf’10, 2010.

AR Façade: An Augmented Reality Interactive Drama, Steven P. Dow, Manish Mehta, Blair MacIntyre, and Michael Mateas. In Extended Abstracts of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST’07), Newport Beach, CA, U.S.A., Nov. 5-7, 2007.

Making Tracking Technology Accessible in a Rapid Prototyping Environment, Maribeth Gandy, Blair MacIntyre, and Steven P. Dow. In Extended Abstracts of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR’04), Arlington, VA, U.S.A, Nov. 2-5, 2004, pp 282-3.

Prototyping Applications for the Physical World Using Integrated Capture/Playback Facilities, Steven P. Dow, Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, and Jay D. Bolter. In Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP’04), Nottingham, U.K., Sept. 7-10, 2004.

DART:  The Designer’s Augmented Reality Toolkit, Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, Jay D. Bolter, Steven P. Dow, Brendan Hannigan. In Extended Abstracts of the Conference on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST’03) and the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR’03), 2003.

Continuous Sensing of Gesture for Control of Audio/Visual Media, Sha Xin Wei, Giovanni Iachello, Steven P. Dow, Yoichiro Serita, Tazama St.Julien, Juilen Fistre. In Extended Abstracts of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC’03), White Plains, NY, U.S.A., October 21-23, 2003.

Demonstrations of Expressive Softwear and Ambient Media, Sha Xin Wei, Yoichiro Serita, Jill Fantauzza, Steven P. Dow, Giovanni Iachello, Joey Berzowska, Yvonne Caravia, Delphine Nain, Wolfgang Reitberger. In Extended Abstracts of Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP’03), Seattle, WA, U.S.A, October 12-15, 2003.

Mobile ADVICE:  An Accessible Device for Visually Impaired Capability Enhancement, Robert Amar, Steven P. Dow, Rick Gordon, Rafay Hamid, and Chad Sellers. In Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Computer-Human-Interaction (CHI’03), Ft. Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A., April 5-10, 2003.

Building a Family Health Heirloom Sarah M. Reeder, Steven P. Dow, and Jodi Forlizzi. In Workshop on Heritage Matters at the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'12), Austin, TX, 2012.

Shepherding the Crowd: An Approach to More Creative Crowd Work Steven P. Dow and Scott R. Klemmer. In Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation at the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'11), Vancouver, BC, 2011.

The Ethics of Online Video Analysis for Systematic Observation of Behavior Malte F. Jung and Steven P. Dow. In Workshop on Ethics, Logs and Videotape at the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'11), Vancouver, BC, 2011.

How Does Reality-Based Interaction Affect Users? Steven P. Dow. In Workshop on Challenges in Evaluating Usability and User Experience of Reality-Based Interaction. In Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'09), Boston, MA, 2009.

Understanding Engagement: A Mixed-Method Approach to Observing Game Play, Steven P. Dow, Blair MacIntyre, and Michael Mateas. In Workshop on Evaluating User Experience in Games. In Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'08), Florence, Italy, 2008.

New Media Collaborations through Wizard-of-Oz Simulations, Steven P. Dow and Blair MacIntyre. In Workshop on HCI and New Media Arts: Methodology and Evaluation. In Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'07), San Jose, CA, 2007.

Reflecting on Production Tools and Methods for Mixed Reality Design Steven P. Dow and Blair MacIntyre. In Workshop on What is the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction? In Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'06), Montreal, QC, CAN, April 24-27, 2006.

Tools for Designing Computational Spaces, Steven P. Dow, Maribeth Gandy, and Blair MacIntyre. In The Future of User Interface Design Tools Workshop. Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'05), Portland, OR, Apr. 2-7, 2005.

Designing for Place in Urban Cemeteries, Steven P. Dow and Susan Wyche. In Engaging The City: Public Interfaces As Civic Intermediary Workshop. Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'05), Portland, OR, Apr. 2-7, 2005.

Prototyping Applications with Tangible User Interfaces in DART Maribeth Gandy, Steven P. Dow, and Blair MacIntyre. In Toolkit Support for Interaction in the Physical World Workshop at IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vienna, Austria, April 2004.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL Group (Boston, MA)
University of Iowa, Computing Conference (Iowa City, IA)
Northwestern University, Segal Design Institute (Evanston, IL)
Carnegie Mellon, Robotics Institute (Pittsburgh, PA)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
Google Research (Mountain View, CA)
University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division (Los Angeles, CA)
Nokia Research (Palo Alto, CA)
Indiana-Purdue University, School of Informatics (Indianapolis, IN)
Iowa State University, HCI program (Ames, IA)
Accenture Technology Labs (San Jose, CA)
U Michigan, School of Information (Ann Arbor, MI)
Georgia Tech, GVU Center (Atlanta, GA)
McGill University, School of Information Studies (McGill, QC)
Carnegie Mellon, HCI Institute (Pittsburgh, PA)
UC Merced, Cognitive Science (Merced, CA)
IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA)
U Washington, DUB Group (Seattle, WA)
Abode Advanced Technology Labs (San Francisco, CA)
U Michigan, School of Information (Ann Arbor, MI)
HP Labs, Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab (Palo Alto, CA)
Mines-Paris Tech, Centre de Gestion Scientifique (Paris, France)
Université de Paris-Sud and INRIA (Paris, France)
Hasso Plattner Institute, Human Computer Interaction Lab (Potsdam, Germany)
Stanford DesignX Meeting, Center for Design Research (Palo Alto, CA)
Stanford Symbolic Systems Lecture Series (Palo Alto, CA)
Nokia Research (Santa Monica, CA)
DePaul University, College of Digital Media (Chicago, IL)
Carnegie Mellon University, HCI Institute (Pittsburgh, PA)
U of Pittsburgh, Dept of CS and Learning Research & Development Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
RIT Dept of Interactive Games and Media (Rochester, NY)
UC Berkeley, Berkeley Institute of Design (Berkeley, CA)
Penn State, College of Information Sciences and Technology (University Park, PA)
Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, & Design (Palo Alto, CA)
Google Tech Talk (Mountain View, CA)
Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley (Mountain View, CA)

Iowa State University, HCI program (Ames, IA)
UC Berkeley, Berkeley Institute of Design (Berkeley, CA)
DePaul University, College of Digital Media (Chicago, IL)
UC Berkeley, Berkeley Institute of Design (Berkeley, CA)

Stanford University, Media-X Workshop, Teaching My Avatar New Tricks (Palo Alto, CA)

Willow Garage (Menlo Park, CA)
UC Santa Cruz, Dept of Computer Science (Santa Cruz, CA)

Intl Conference Engineering Design, Design Thinking Workshop (Stanford, CA)
Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program, summer meeting (Palo Alto, CA)
Center for Design Research, DesignX Meeting (Palo Alto, CA)
Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program, winter meeting (Palo Alto, CA)
Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program, intro event (Potsdam, Germany)

Microsoft Research, (Cambridge, UK, July 15th, 2009)
UC Santa Cruz, Intro Game Design (Santa Cruz, CA, Jan 30th, 2009)
Nokia Research (Palo Alto, CA, January 22nd, 2009)
Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (Redwood City, CA)
Hasso Plattner Institute, Introductory HCI Course (Potsdam, Germany)

Department of Informatics at UC Irvine (Irvine, CA)
Department of CS at Columbia University (New York City, NY)
School of Computer and Information Science at U of South Australia (Adelaide, Aus)
HIT Lab NZ at Univ of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Creativity and Cognition Studios (Sydney, Australia)

HIT Lab NZ at University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand)
School of Computer and Information Science at U of South Australia (Adelaide, Aus)
Literature, Culture & Digital Media at BTH (Karlskrona, Sweden)
New Media Studies at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)
Fine Arts Cultural Studies at York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Intel’s People and Practices Seminar Series (Hillsboro, OR)

National Science Foundation (2012)

Papers Co-Chair, Creativity & Cognition (2013)
Papers Associate Chair, Design Sub-Committee, CHI (2011-13)
Papers Associate Chair, DIS (2012)
Work-in-Progress Papers Associate Chair, CHI (2009)

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI (2006-13)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer Support Coooperative Work (2008-10, 2013)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS (2012)
Workshop on Human Computation in Digital Entertainment, HCIDE (2012)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST (2007, 2010, 2012)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, C&C (2007, 2009, 2011)
ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (2008, 2011)
Mobile HCI (2011)
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, TOCHI (2010, 2012)
International Journal of Design (2010)
ACM Conference on Pervaisve Computing (2010-11)
ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (2010)
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (2010)
Virtual Reality Journal (2010)
Journal of Multimedia Systems (2009)
Journal of Computers and Graphics (2009)
IEEE Conference on 3D User Interfaces (2009)
ACM Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2009)
Evaluating User Experience in Games, chapter review (2009)
ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (2008)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (2007-09)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (2007, 2009)
IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine (2007)
Emerging Technologies of Augmented Reality: Interfaces and Design (2007)
Communications of the ACM (2006)

Kurt Luther, CMU HCI Institute, Postdoc Co-Advisor (2012-2013)
Chris MacLellan, CMU HCI Institute, Co-Advisor (2012-2013)
Sarah Reeder, CMU HCI Institute, PhD student (2011-2012)
Kenneth Goh, Tepper School of Business PhD Student, Proposal Committee (2012)
Tat Koon Koh, Tepper School of Business PhD Student, Proposal Committee (2012)
Nancy Chen, CMU MHCI independent study (2012-13)
Namrata Kannan, CMU MHCI independent study (2012)
Julie Shim, CMU undergrad intern (2013)
Alan Herman, CMU undergrad intern (2012)
Chris Reid, CMU undergrad intern (2012)
Soyeon Hwang, CMU undergrad intern (2012)
Audris Wang, CMU undergrad intern (2012)
Jordy Zagdanski, CMU MHCI independent study (2012)
Linda Le, CMU MHCI independent study (2012)
Kevin Ho, CURIS Undergraduate Research (2011)
Matthew Chan, Research volunteer (2011)
Brie Bunge, CURIS Undergraduate Research (2010)
Julie Fortuna, CURIS Undergraduate Research (2010)
Truc Nguyen, CURIS Undergraduate Research (2010)
Dan Schwartz, SymSys Undergraduate Research (2010)
Rachel Lopatin, SymSys Undergraduate Research (2010)
Renata Aryanti, Masters Research (2010)
Alana Glassco, SymSys Undergraduate Research (2009)
Jonathan Kass, CURIS Undergraduate Research (2009)
Melissa Schwarz, SymSys Undergraduate Research (2009)
Kate Heddleston, Undergraduate Research (2009)
Sauvik Das, Intel Opportunities Scholar’s Program (2006-08)
Uzo Okafor, Intel Opportunities Scholar’s Program (2006-07)
Andrew Durso, Intel Opportunities Scholar’s Program (2005-06)
Anthony Thomas, Intel Opportunities Scholar’s Program (2005-06)

Head of PhD Admissions Committee, HCII, Carnegie Mellon (2013)
Organizer, Z-Axis Speaker Series, HCII, Carnegie Mellon (2011-13)
Committee Member, PhD Admissions, HCII, Carnegie Mellon (2012)
Committee Member, BHCI Admissions, HCII, Carnegie Mellon (2012)
Organizer, HCI Institute party planning committee for CHI (2012)
Organizer, Seminar on People, Computers and Design, Stanford (2010-11)
Graduate Student Council, College of Computing, Georgia Tech (2005-08)
  Faculty Recruiting Committee (2007-08)
  Representative for the School of Interactive Computing (2005-07)
  Representative for the Human-Centered Computing PhD Program (2005-06)
  GVU Coffee and Cookie break organizer, Georgia Tech (2006-07)

Ambidextrous: Stanford's Journal of Design (Assistant Editor, 2009-10)
Hawkeye Engineer: University of Iowa, College of Engineering, Student Magazine (Managing Editor, 1998-99)

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI, 2005)
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing for User eXperience (DUX, 2005)
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR, 2004)
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp, 2004)
IEEE Virtual Reality (VRST, 1999-2000)
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES, 1998-99)

Association for Computing Machinery (2007-13)
CHI*Atlanta (2003-04)
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, U. Iowa Chapter President (2000)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (1998-2000)

Co-PI, National Science Foundation Grant, "Strategies for Crowdsourcing Complex Design Work"

Co-PI, National Science Foundation Grant, "Engaging Interdisciplinary Students in Innovation Education through Crowd-Based Technologies"

Recipient of Stanford Postdoctoral Association’s best research award (only 8 selected from 1800 postdocs)

Co-recipient, Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Grant

Program Fellow, National Science Foundation, East Asia and Pacific Science Institutes

Outstanding Paper Award, Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment

Co-recipient of Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center (GVU) Seed Grant Award

University of Iowa Honors Thesis: Virtual Dentistry: the Forces Behind the Pain

Recipient, Institute of Industrial Engineering Award for Technical Writing

Award for Excellence, University of Iowa, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Recipient, Lloyd A. Knowler Quality Engineering Scholarship

Dean’s List, University of Iowa

Researchers Explore How Creative Collaborations Form, The Tartan

Successful Online Collaborations Require More than Shared Interests, L'Atelier

Big Data Approach Promises New Tool for Social Science Research, CMU Press Release

UC Irvine's Beall Center Showcases InterSense Technology, InterSense Press Release

Avant-garde video-game blog earns art exhibition at UC Irvine’s Beall Center, Hugh Powell and Tim Stephens

Big Joy Stick, Big Fun at the Beall Center, Elizabeth Watkins, New University Newspaper

Augmented reality relationship game plays with your emotions, EnGadget

New games mixing virtual, physical worlds, Greg Bluestein, Associated Press

Step into a Soap Opera, Jason Bronis, Associated Press (Video)

Reinventing the virtual world, Alyssa Abkowitz, The Creative Loafing

Augmented Reality Façade: Visitors encounter two virtual autonomous characters in a physical room and interact using natural speech and gestures.

Grand Text Auto Exhibit (Beall Center for Art & Technology, Irvine, CA)
GVU Center 15th Anniversary Celebration (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA)
The New Face of Computing Symposium (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA)
Living Game Worlds Symposium (Atlanta, GA)

Four Angry Men: Participants see virtual jurors through a head-mounted display and can switch between different points of view by physically moving between chairs.

TTI / Vanguard meeting and NextGens Technologies Conf (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA)
GVU Center Convocation Day (Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA)

The Voices of Oakland: Visitors move through an historic cemetery grounds wearing location-sensitive headphones and listen to actors portray compelling individuals who are buried below.

Sunday in the Park (Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA)

Who is Watching? HDE Security. A fabricated bathroom video surveillance system distributes images in the public space challenging people to explore issues of privacy and security (with Engin Erdogan and Julie Hoffman).

LCC Digital Media demo day (Wesley New Media Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA)

La Regina / Expressive Softwear: Dancers wear garments with tiny computers that continuously sense movements and alter the audio-visual space (with Topological Media Lab).

LCC Digital Media demo day (Wesley New Media Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA)

Available upon request.

Last updated March 18, 2012