KMDI - Knowledge Media Design Institute
Knowledge media are building blocks of a knowledge society
Visiting Professors
- Bill Buxton | 2004-2005
- Aaron Marcus | 2003-2004
- Lucy Suchman | 2002-2003
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Bill Buxton  |
Bill Buxton, KMDIs Visiting Professor 2004/5, is a long time colleague and friend. Bill is the former Scientific Director of the Ontario Telepresence Project (1992-1995), the project in which many of the founding members of KMDI first began working together. Bill is a designer and a researcher concerned with human aspects of technology. His work reflects a particular interest in the use of technology to support creative activities such as design, film making and music. His research specialties include technologies, techniques and theories of input to computers, technology mediated human-human collaboration, and ubiquitous computing. He is currently Principal of his own boutique design and consulting firm, Buxton Design, where his time is split between working for clients, lecturing, and trying to finish a long-delayed book on sketching and interaction design.This fall he is a part-time instructor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design. (OCAD). In association with Bruce Mau Design of Toronto, where he acts as Chief Scientist, Bill has been involved in producing the exhibit on design, culture and technology which opens at the Vancouver Art Galley October 2004. The exhibit, Massive Change: The Future of Global Design has a room devoted to Bills input/interaction device collection.The exhibit goes from Vancouver to the Art Center in Pasadena and will be in Toronto in the Spring of 2005. Bill will be giving a KMDI Distinguished Lecture later in the fall 2004 on Mountaineering and Literacy, one of the many ways in the upcoming year that the KMDI community will benefit from close contact with an exceptional scholar. |
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| Aaron Marcus, KMDIs 2003-2004 Visiting Professor, is the founder and President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). A graduate in physics from Princeton University and in graphic design from Yale University, in 1967 he became the world's first graphic designer to be involved fulltime in computer graphics. Since then he has written over 150 articles; written/co-written five books, including (with KMDI Founder, Ron Baecker) Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs (1990); contributed chapters/case studies to seven books of user-interface design, information appliances, and culture, including three industry Handbooks; and serves on the editorial/advisory boards of five industry publications, including Interactions and User Experience. For the last decade, Aaron has turned his attention to Web, mobile, and vehicle user-interface and information-visualization design, training leaders for centers of excellence, providing guidelines for globalization/localization, and focusing on the challenges of "baby faces" (small displays for consumer information appliances) of ubiquitous devices and cross-cultural communication. He has published, lectured, tutored, and consulted internationally for more than 30 years and has been an invited keynote/plenary speaker at conferences of ACM/SIGCHI, ACMSIGGRAPH, Usability Professionals Association (UPA), and the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, as well as conferences internationally. KMDI is honored to work with this visionary thinker, a well-respected participant in international professional communities associated with Web, user interface, human factors, graphic design, publishing, and desktop software application development. |
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| Lucy Suchman, Professor of Sociology, Cartmel College, Lancaster University, UK is KMDIs first Visiting Professor. For 20 years, Lucy was a principal scientist and manager of the Work Practice and Technology group, a multidisciplinary research group at Xerox PARC. Her 1987 book, Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication, has received international acclaim, and is one of the intellectual foundations of the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). As an anthropologist her work challenged the cognitive-centric assumptions behind the design of interactive systems, using forceful arguments and detailed studies to show that human action is constructed from dynamic interactions with the material and social world. Her subsequent continuing work and influence has drawn many ethnographers and social scientists into the field. In 1988 Lucy received the Xerox Corporate Research Group's Excellence in Science and Technology Award. She was a founding member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and served on its Board of Directors from 1982-1990. In 2002 she received the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. At home with KMDI, Lucy became involved with KMDIs International Public Lecture Series, lectured to students in KMD1000Y, and gave a Special Lecture entitled Reconfiguring Relations at the Interface. We greatly enjoyed her term with us and look forward to future collaboration. | |
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