Kristina Hooper Woolsey
Apple Computer Multimedia Lab
Casual Multimedia: The use of imagery in everyday activities
January 20, 1993
Human Computer Interaction is increasingly engaged with the social-cultural context that people live in everyday. The city, in all its grit and glory, provides a complex and rich context in which to understand the challenges technologies face when they are adopted by people in the real world. In this presentation, I discuss three on-going research initiatives from my group at Cornell Tech in New York City which grapple with interaction in the urban context: Trashbots in the City, Urban Fingerprinting, and Communal eXtended Reality. These projects highlight different aspects of urban interaction--culture, scale, engagement--which demand new approaches from researchers and practitioners in HCI. In this talk, I will also champion the perspectives that HCI brings to the already crowded urban landscape.
Kristina Hooper Woolsey, director of the Apple Computer Multimedia
Lab, was trained as a cognitive scientist. Over the past twenty
years she has extended this perspective into the development
of image-based technologies in learning.
Dr. Woolsey received her Ph.D. in cognitive science from the
University of California at San Diego and her B.A. in cognitive
psychology from Stanford University. In addition, she was the
recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship in architecture from
the University of California at Berkeley.
Prior to joining Apple Computer, Dr. Woolsey was a faculty
member at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a visiting
professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then
worked at Atari's Research Lab in Sunnyvale, California, where
she was promoted to Director of Research and Development.
Dr. Woolsey joined Apple Computer in 1985, and co-founded
the Multimedia Lab in 1987. As a member of the Advanced Technology
Group, she applies her multimedia production experience to research
on the casual use of multimedia in our daily lives. In 1992,
she was named one of Apple's Distinguished Scientists, a small
group that offers its expertise throughout the company.
She is co-editor with Sueann Ambron of two books on multimedia:
Interactive Multimedia: Visions of Multimedia for Developers,
Educators & Information Providers and Learning with Interactive
Multimedia: Developing and Using Multimedia Tools in Education
(Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press, 1988 and 1990). She has
been lead designer or executive producer of a number of recent
multimedia titles, including Life Story (Wings for Learning,
1992), The Visual Almanac. (Optical Data, 1990), Interactive
NOVA: Animal Pathfinders (Scholastic, 1991), and GTV: A Geographic
Perspective on American History (Optical Data, 1991). |
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