talk: Inter-Disciplinary Research between Computer Science, Creativity and the Arts, 2pm 10/2

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:00:37 -0400
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Appropriately Valuing Inter-Disciplinary Research
between Computer Science, Creativity and the Arts

Professor Celine Latulipe
Software and Information Systems
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2:00pm Friday 2 October 2015, PAHB 132

Scientists and technologists conducting research in creativity and engaging with artists face political pressure to justify their work. A case study of the NSF-funded Dance.Draw project is used to illustrate the problematic aspects of pressure. I argue that a shift in dialogue is needed to appropriately value this type of inter-disciplinary research.

Dr. Celine Latulipe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research involves developing and evaluating novel interaction techniques, creativity and collaboration support tools and technologies to support the arts, and developing innovation computer science curriculum design patterns. Dr. Latulipe examines issues of how to support expression and exploration in complex interfaces and how interaction affordances impact satisficing behavior. She also conducts research into how to make computer science education a more social experience, both as a way of more deeply engaging students and as an approach to broadening participation in a field that lacks gender and racial diversity.