Abstract
Design and Human-Computer Interaction are crucial components of information technologies in daily life and they color our experience ofcomputation and communication. The age of ubiquitous/pervasive/ambient computing is upon us. What does this mean to us when we have computingwithout computers, where information processing has diffused into everyday life, and virtually become invisible? Over the years Ellen have been working in a collaborative and interdisciplinary research studio aimed at fostering and developing ideas that will shape the future of design. Her work crosses the boundaries of design and human-computer interaction, cognitive science and studies of design. She will discuss recent work in building intelligent tools for design and HCI, including freehand sketching and other 'intuitive' interaction modes, and computationally augmented artifacts and environments. Ellen is committed to building better design tools, from understanding the human intelligence involved in the design process and leading to the improvement of the interface with computers. Her research explores new modalities of communication, collaboration, and coordination, as well as the physical and virtual worlds that push the current boundaries of computing environments for design.About the Speaker
Ellen Yi-Luen Do is an associate professor in the College of Architecture and the College of Computing at Georgia Institue of Technology, and director of a design computing and cognition lab called ACME Creativity Machine Environment (ACME Lab). Before joining Georgia Tech, she was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (04-05) where she co-directed the Computational Design Lab, and on the faculty at University of Washington(99-04) where she co-directed the Design Machine Group, and served as Faculty Advisor for the MS program in Design Computing, and the University's Honors Program. She worked on the development of computer aided design tools to support freehand drawing as an interface to knowledge based tools. She has conducted empirical studies of design drawing and constructed computer software to integrate knowledge based applications with freehand drawing. She has also worked in the areas of computer based visual analysis tools.For more info, visit http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ellendo |
Human Computer Interaction