Publications

Due to copyright issues, I haven't put all of these publications online. If you are interested in reading any of them or learning more, please feel free to contact me.

Using Near Real-Time Mission Data for Education and Public Outreach: Strategies From the Life in the Atacama E/PO Effort. Primary author with Peter Coppin, Michael Wagner, Karl Fischer, Luisa Lu, W. Ronald McCloskey, David Seneker, Nathalie Cabrol, David Wettergreen, and Alan Waggoner. Published at the Thirty Sixth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 2005.

Entertaining AI: Using Rules from Improvisational Acting to Create Unscripted Emotional Impact. Unlisted author with Brenda Harger. Presented at the Game Developers Conference, March 2005 [session description here].

EventScope: Bringing Remote Experience of Mars to the Public through Telepresence. Primary author with Peter Coppin, Michael Wagner, Karl Fischer, Luisa Lu, W. Ronald McCloskey, and David Seneker. Published at the Tenth Annual IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, October 2004.

Emergent Stories in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: Using Improvisational Techniques to Design for Emotional Impact. Co-authored with Brenda Harger, David Jimison, Ben Smith, and Shanna Tellerman. Published at the Third International Conference on Entertainment Computing, September 2004.

A Dice Game in Third-Person Augmented Reality. Co-authored with Richard Colvin, Ted Hung, David Jimison, and Ben Johnson. Published at the Second IEEE International Augmented Reality Toolkit Workshop, October 2003.

Classes
I've had the good fortune to teach a class, and I've got one coming up this fall.

Virtual Presence: Art and Applications [link]
Co-taught with Peter Coppin
Carnegie Mellon University - Spring 2006
Description: This class was an interdisciplinary graduate-level seminar exploring the use of interactive virtual representations of real places (i.e., the Earth, Pittsburgh, etc.) for educating, engaging, motivating, and/or serving segments of the public.