2008-09-11T01:01:11Z 1 aisling dot kelliher at asu dot edu Aisling Aisling Kelliher http://ame2.asu.edu/faculty/kelliher/ 1 Kelliher Aisling Kelliher is Assistant Professor in Media Communication Systems and Media Theory with a joint appointment with the College of Design and the Arts Media and Engineering Program. She received a B.A. in Communications Studies from Dublin City University in 1996 and a MS in Multimedia Systems from Trinity College, Dublin in 1998. She also received a MS in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 2001 and defended her Phd. at the MIT Media Lab in September, 2006. Aisling's work is engaged with revealing the power of the storytelling act as an expressive, reflective and cathartic experience as it is through this communicative process we come to understand ourselves as individual and social beings. As part of this investigation, she develops everyday software applications for creating and sharing rich-media story compositions. current faculty 6 1 Aisling Kelliher is Assistant Professor in Media Communication Systems and Media Theory with a joint appointment with the College of Design and the Arts Media and Engineering Program. 2009-02-18T21:01:52Z 2008-09-11T01:11:51Z 2 hari.sundaram@asu.edu Hari Hari Sundaram http://ame2.asu.edu/faculty/hs/ 2 Sundaram Hari Sundaram is currently an assistant professor at Arizona State University. This is a joint appointment with the department of Computer science and the Arts Media and Engineering Program. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in 2002. He received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook 1995 and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1993. He is principally interested in problems related to multimedia: segmentation, databases, structure discovery and summarization. His current work focuses on the development of computational models for experiential systems. He is also interested in investigating relationships between natural language, vision, audition and comprehension, as well as representational and algorithmic approximations for real-time multimedia content analysis. He was awarded the best student paper award at the prestigious ACM conference on Multimedia 2002. His PhD thesis was awarded the 2002 Eliahu I. Jury Award for best dissertation. He has received a best paper award on video retrieval, from IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, for the year 1998. current faculty 12 1 Hari Sundaram is currently an assistant professor at Arizona State University, holding a joint appointment with the department of Computer science and the Arts Media and Engineering Program. 2009-02-18T21:02:35Z 2008-09-11T01:14:04Z 2 mdechoud@asu.edu Munmun Munmun De Choudhury http://www.public.asu.edu/~mdechoud/ 3 De Choudhury Munmun De Choudhury is a Ph.D student at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in Arizona State University. She holds a B.Tech degree (2005) in Computer Science & Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India where she had focused on pattern recognition in text and image data. Her desire to analyze human interactions in the physical world, coupled with the tools from traditional computer science has led her to considering 'human communication' as a social media. Therein, her current problems focus on predicting communication flow in a social network as well as detecting the temperture or sentiment of a virtually cohesive community. The key construct that binds her variegated research is 'context sentitivty' in her computational models that involve real human communication. Besides research, Munmun also takes a keen interest in photography, writing, poetry and painting. current student 15 2 Munmun De Choudhury is a Computer Science Ph.D Student at Arizona State University. Her primary research focus revolves around computational modeling of communication dynamics in online media-rich social networks. The goal of this research is to understand large-scale sociological phenomenon as well as to study the connection of media sharing with individuals and communities. 2009-03-17T22:35:45Z 2008-09-11T01:14:40Z 2 yu-ru.lin@asu.edu Yu-Ru Yu-Ru Lin http://www.public.asu.edu/~ylin56/ 4 Lin Yu-Ru Lin is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. Her concentration is in Arts, Media and Engineering. She is interested in computational problems relating to dynamic social network analysis - community dynamics, social information summarization and representation. Her current research is focused on community discovery and summarization of media rich social networks. The goal is to extract human communities that collaborate around certain topics / activities. current student 9 2 Yu-Ru Lin is currently a Ph.D student in CSE/AME. She is interested in problems relating to dynamic social network analysis – community dynamics, social information summarization and representation. 2009-02-18T21:03:52Z 2008-09-11T01:15:23Z 1 ryan.spicer@asu.edu Ryan Alterscapes http://www.alterscapes.org 5 Spicer Ryan Spicer comes to Reflective Living by way of academic training in film theory and production and and a strong personal interest in embedded computing, web development and sensing. As a student working towards a Media Arts and Sciences Ph.D, Ryan investigates how narrative and reflection intersect with business slide presentations. When he's not deep into a programming challenge, he can often be found strapped into a sailplane above southern Arizona or behind the lens of a camera. current student 1 2 Ryan Spicer is a Media Arts and Sciences Ph.D student investigating how narrative and reflection intersect with business slide presentations. 2009-02-18T21:04:13Z 2008-09-11T01:24:13Z 1 david.lorig@asu.edu> David 6 Lorig David is a member of the tech team for the Arts, Media and Engineering program. He is a graduate of the Sculpture program at Northern Arizona University with a background in Theatre. His interests lie in the melding of art and technology. current staff 18 3 David is a member of the tech team for the Arts, Media and Engineering program. 2009-02-18T21:05:00Z 2008-11-19T19:23:35Z 2 shawn.nikkila@asu.edu Shawn 8 Nikkila Shawn Nikkila is currently a MS student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. Shawn’s research activities include finding ways to improve the experience of reading blogs by providing alternative approaches to presenting the information to the user. Specifically, he is interested in visualizing blog posts in a way that only presents information that the reader cares about. Additionally, he is also interested in finding ways to analyze the sentiment of blog contributors over a variety of topics. Shawn hopes to combine his research with his love of gaming by first applying these ideas to gaming blogs and branching off to other subjects from there. When not spending every waking hour working in front of a computer, he enjoys playing on the piano, playing tennis, reading, and playing videogames. current student 59 2 Shawn’s research activities include finding ways to improve the experience of reading blogs by providing alternative approaches to presenting the information to the user. 2009-02-18T21:05:29Z 2008-11-20T20:59:25Z 2 kexu1@asu.edu Ke 9 Xu Ke Xu is current a MS student in Computer Science with Art Media & Engineering concentration at Arizona State University, under Professor Hari Sundaram. He holds a B.E degree in Computer Science & Networking from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. Ke is interesting in exploring the potential useful information by gathering and analyzing from person's daily life and social network. He hopes his work can help people to realize and find more meaningful activities and rich their life. Ke loves baseball and manga, hoping they can be useful in his future works. current student 62 2 Ke Xu is a Master student in CSE with AME concentration at ASU. His research interest includes social network and information visualization. 2009-03-04T20:27:58Z 2008-11-20T21:03:40Z 4 lzhang64@asu.edu Lu 10 Zhang Lu Zhang is currently a MS student in the Department of Electrical Engineering-Arts/media/engineering at Arizona State University. Lu is a member of reflective living group, under professor Hari Sundaram's supervision. Lu's research activities include designning multimedia physical environment, using color and sound to represent abstract information to users. Specifially, he is interested in designning various interfaces by arduino board. Additionally, he is interested in improving the interaction between users and interfaces. Lu tries to control the information sent by interfaces in a specific way based on users' action. current student 65 2 Lu Zhang is currently a MS student in the Department of Electrical Engineering with AME concentration at ASU. 2009-02-18T21:06:15Z 2009-10-06T20:46:28Z 1 heng.chen@asu.edu Heng homepage http://www.public.asu.edu/~hchen101/ 11 Chen Heng Chen is currently a Media Arts and Sciences Ph.D student at Arizona State University, advised by Prof. Aisling Kelliher. She earned a Bachelor degree of Engineering in Digital Media Arts and Technology from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, 2009. Heng joined the Visualization Group at Peking University before she came to ASU and there she worked on social networks visualization. Heng is now a group member of Reflective Living, and her research focus is information visualization, including social networks visualization and HCI design. current student 92 2 Heng Chen is a graduate student pursuing her doctorate in Media Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. She works on information visualization, human-computer interaction and user interface design. 2009-10-06T20:48:37Z 2009-11-04T23:25:47Z 3 silvan.lin@asu.edu Silvan 12 Linn Silvan Linn is an MSD student in the College of Design, with a concentration in AME, advised by Aisling Kelliher. He obtained his BID in Industrial Design from Carleton University in 2008, working on embedded-sensor assistive devices for visually impaired users of walkers. Silvan's primary research interests are in augmented environments, specifically in the context of an urban community; tangible and ambient interfaces; and embedded technology. When not at school, he can usually be found cycling (or fixing his bike), taking photos with weird old cameras, or messing with electronics. current student 95 2 Silvan Linn is an MSD student in the College of Design, with a concentration in AME. His primary research interests are in augmented environments, specifically in the context of an urban community; tangible and ambient interfaces; and embedded technology. 2009-11-04T23:27:04Z