About Our Lab

In the Scientists’ Discovery Room Lab at Harvard University, we create and study interactive visual systems for science, education, informal science learning, digital humanities, and medical applications. In these pages, you will see our ongoing endeavor in a set of multidisciplinary research projects. We explore what the large collections of today’s online science data can offer in terms of communicating science to the public, why playful and engaging touch and tangible interactions might benefit education and informal science learning, as well as how new interaction modalities can be used in patient rehabilitation.

Contact information

Chia Shen
Director, SDR Lab
Maxwell Dworkin 115
chia_shen at harvard.edu

Kathryn Higgins

Faculty Administrator

Maxwell Dworkin 133

Email: khiggins at seas dot harvard dot edu

Office Phone: 617-496-0126

Office Fax: 617-495-8612

News and Featured

Wall Street Journal Health articlePress Release on "Life on Earth"Vector (Children's Hospital Boston's science and clinical innovation blog) and medGadget (internet journal of emerging medical technologies) report on our Multi-touch Rehabilitiation Intervention games.Chia Shen will give a keynote at the IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010 (International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing).Chia Shen was a keynote speaker at the 6th Joint Conference on Harmonious Human Machine Environment in the ancient city Luoyang, China.The SDR Lab featured in the Harvard gazette Read article.Chia Shen was an invited speaker at the 2009 Interactive Tabletop and Surfaces conference in Banff, Canada. 15-16 March 2010: Chia Shen is an invited speaker to the China Symposium on HCI in Bejing, China.