Toward Intuitive Design Interfaces

Speaker
Ellen Do
Associate Professor, Computational Design, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

How would tomorrow’s designers interact with computers? Design and Human-Computer Interaction are crucial components of information technologies in daily life and color our experience of computation and communication.

Computational Design Lab (CoDe Lab) at the Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture is a collaborative research studio aimed at fostering and developing ideas that will shape the future of design and information technology. The research projects at the CoDe Lab include (1) Design Tools such as sketch and gesture interfaces with embedded knowledge, (2) Collaboration, Communication involving coordination and constraints, and (3) Computationally Enhanced Environments such as physical computing and responsive environments.

Speaker's Bio

Ellen Yi-Luen Do is an Associate Professor of Computational Design in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, Ellen was 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 Honors Program. Prior to UW, Ellen worked at University of Colorado at Boulder (94–99) as a researcher and lecturer for the Sundance Lab for Computing in Design and Planning. She joined Carnegie Mellon’s faculty in September 2004. Her research focuses 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.

Speaker's Website
http://code.arc.cmu.edu/