The Makeability Lab took part in the Drumheller Half Marathon—a wonderful new(ish) tradition hosted by the Allen School's own Race Condition Running Club. CSE ugrads, grads, postdocs, faculty, and staff participated. It was so much fun! The course begins with a short segment down the upper vista, followed by 110 laps around Drumheller Fountain. Runners will enter first loop from the east of the finish line and begin by running counterclockwise. The direction will flip every 20 minutes, and runners must change directions only by rounding the marker placed at the north end of the finish line. Here's a few pictures and my GPS log from the run.

We had a wonderful time this week doing a "lab exchange" with MIT's City Form Lab. On Wednesday, Chu Li and Jon Froehlich gave a talk to the MIT group and on Friday, the MIT group reciprocated and gave a talk to us. Inspirational and fun!

Congrats to Chu Li for presenting our work on Project Sidewalk and sidewalk equity for the World Information Architecture Day in Seattle. Pictures below courtesy of Zhihan Zhang.

Congrats to Stefania Druga for passing her iSchool PhD dissertation defense today on the topic of Creative AI Literacies for Families. I was honored to serve on the PhD committee. Such timely, important work exploring how to develop children and family AI literacy and involve them in AI-assisted creation! Also, best title slide ever, which was generated via DALL E-2 using the new Microsoft Designer—an AI-assisted design tool (how fitting!).    

Announcing Dr. Seokbin Kang—Seokbin successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled Augmented Reality Systems and USer Interaction Techniques for STEM Learning." Seokbin is my last UMD CS advisee and it was an enormous honor working with him.

Thanks also to the amazing commitee, which included Professors David Jacobs, Tamara Clegg, Huaishu Peng, and David Weintrop.

Announcing Dr. Seokbin Kang—Seokbin successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled Augmented Reality Systems and USer Interaction Techniques for STEM Learning." Seokbin is my last UMD CS advisee and it was an enormous honor working with him.

Thanks also to the amazing commitee, which included Professors David Jacobs, Tamara Clegg, Huaishu Peng, and David Weintrop.

We are honored that our video for PrototypAR won the 2019 NSF STEM Video Showcase Facilitators' Award. Congrats team and particularly Seokbin Kang who led the PrototypAR project, including the video.

Today, our video on PrototypAR entitled "PrototypAR: Learning through AR Design and Experimentation" just launched on the NSF video showcase. Please check it out and explore the site for more inspirational "Innovations in STEM Education" videos.

The UW Reality Lab just announced that they are funding our work in augmented reality (AR) and STEM for elementary school learners. Our most recent project in this area, PrototypAR, was just accepted to IDC'19: