Home page

Featured Projects

Solar System Sonification

Lab:

Students in the Sonification Lab and Center for Music Technology designed Solar System Sonification, an auditory experience of the planets. Using non-speech audio to convey information, they built a musical model of the solar system. Planetariums typically rely on visuals with various levels of speech description, but have not explored using auditory cues to present information about space. Auditory displays, like the ones developed for Solar System Sonification, enable more immersive experiences and make information accessible to people with visual impairments.

Applying Design Studio Pedagogy in STEM Learning

Lab:

Augmented Environments Lab

We use Augmented Reality presentation and sensing technologies to integrate design studio learning models into screen-based classrooms. The goal of this approach is to create STEM learning experiences that encourage creativity, innovation and help build strong peer learning environments. To accomplish this goal we implement room-scale augmented reality technology with projection-based presentation and sensing technologies -- projecting on surfaces and using depth sensing for unencumbered interaction (see http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/roomalive/).

Parent Perspectives: A Framework for Museum Exhibits

Lab:

Culture And Technology Lab (CAT)

The rise of ubiquitous technology has resulted in exponential growth in potential options for the design of interactive museum exhibits. We posit that using a framework of parental beliefs about learning and teaching for design can be useful to the HCI community when creating museum exhibits to facilitate learning. Our study builds upon Swartz and Crowley's framework of parental pedagogical approaches through analysis of 118 observations of social interactions between parents and children at museum exhibits.

Upcoming Events

No items available.

All GVU Events

GVU News

Assistant Professor Dhruv Batra Earns Prestigious ECASE-Army Award

The award will provide $1 million worth of funding over the course of the next five years.
Forbes Releases 2018 US List of Top 50 Women in Tech

Forbes, Dec 12, 2018
Computing Professors Recognized With Prestigious ACM Fellowships

In an announcement made today, Executive Associate Dean Charles Isbell and School of Interactive Computing Professor Amy Bruckman were named as two of 56 ACM Fellows selected for 2018.