Director
Chia Shen (Director, SDR Lab)
Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
chia_shen at harvard.edu / Profile
+1 (617) 384-5831
Researchers
Florian Block (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Florian has just finished his PhD Thesis titled “Reimagining Graphical User Interface Ecologies”. His background is in Human Computer Interaction, and he equally enjoys designing, implementing and evaluating new interactive systems. Florian’s work so far has focused on exploring novel and compelling forms of interacting with graphical interfaces. His work at SDR Lab will concentrate on the use of novel multi-touch technology to create highly interactive and engaging museum exhibits that enable visitors to playfully acquire understanding of important concepts of evolutionary biology.
Brenda Caldwell Phillips (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Brenda is a research psychologist. She is interested in how children and adults acquire knowledge about – and an appreciation for – living things via informal learning activities and direct engagement with the natural world. Her work also includes the study of language and the acquisition of early artifact concepts. Brenda is also interested in how contextual factors, such as living in poverty or having limited access to natural and/or educational resources, influence learning and human mental health. As a member of LOE, Brenda is developing methods to facilitate learning about biological kinds via the use of interactive, multi-touch tables in museum settings.
Yongqiang (Visiting PhD Student)
Yongqiang is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He has good experience in designing and implementing large-scale multi-touch table (uTable ) and presented his work at ITS 2011. He has great interest in multi-user collaboration on interactive surfaces. His work at SDR Lab will concentrate on the maintaining and further development of FloTree, as well as exploring meaningful gestural interfaces at the SDR Lab as an intern.
Alumni and Associates
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| Son Do-Lenh | Alan Dunne | Meekal Bajaj | Micheal Horn | Hao Jiang |
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| Laurence Muller | Bertrand Schneider | Matthew Tobiasz | Daniel Wigdor | Luca Della Toffola |
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| Chenglei Yang | Chua Kien Chuan | Sebastian Velez |