Film, Art, Design
After graduating from the UCLA Film program in 1996, I went on to work
in a variety of roles in the film industry in Los Angeles. My
experience included commercial art direction, production sound on
independent features for Sony Pictures Classics & HBO Films. This
portion of my career was punctuated by several years as a camera
operator and lighting director on television shows for CBS (Big Brother) , Fox (54321) & ESPN. Before returning to Stanford, I moved back to my hometown of Boston, and taught filmmaking at Boston University while designing websites on the side.
Learning Goals
I was hoping to gain a better understanding of how people make sense
of their experience, enhance my own design process, demystify
technology and be able to employ it as a tool, and extend my aesthetic
senses.
Courses
Fall – Quarter 1
ED 333A – Analyzing Functions and Needs in Learning Environments
ED 229A – Seminar in LDT
CS 376 – Research topics in HCI
ART 16 – Light as a Sculptural Element
Winter – Quarter 2
ED 229B – Seminar in LDT
ED 295 - Learning and Cognition in Activity
CS 247 - Interaction Design Studio
ME 377 - d.school bootcamp
Spring – Quarter 3
ED 229C – Seminar in LDT
ART 160 - design 2
ED 377X - Designing Learning Spaces
MS&E 430 - ExTools - Experience Prototyping
ART 177- Wireless
Summer – Quarter 4
ED 229D – Seminar in LDT
See Project Portfolio
Internship
HCI Group – Professor Scott Klemmer, School of Engineering. I helped out with a study on opportunistic programming and mash-up designs. I learned quite a bit about design research and discovered new techniques for making sense out of data. It was great to be exposed to the methodologies of a different department.
Master’s Project
PEEK/RE:Search: A mobile / collaborative research tool to facilitate
discovery and support curiosity in informal learning environments.
Peek/RE:Serach
I am currently working as a Fellow at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford . I am helping redesign the schools collaborative innovation spaces including a prototyping theater where students and faculty can test and display large scale work. In addition, I guest lecturer for the d.school's design process classes and workshops and am helping to launch the d.school's first long term design project: K-12 education.
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