After years of being on the receiving end of unusable, or difficult to use technology, I decided that I needed to become part of the solution and started taking computer courses part-time in 2003.  Some of the graduate courses I’ve taken include VR for Education and Training, HCI, Ubicomp, Visualization, Distance Education and Online-Communication Tools, and Artificial Intelligence for Game Development.

This is a very exciting area of research and I am delighted to see that I am not alone in my thinking. Some of my graduate projects involved developing prototype applications for large touch screen displays/tables.

Working with children and teens for over 20 years as a school psychologist has provided me with insights about ways multi-touch tables and large displays/windows could be used in education, in schools, at home, and in communities. 

Since I joined the NUI group, I have kept up with many of the member’s projects and progress, and I have also written about NUI group success stories on my blogs, along with video clips and images.  I have been invited to speak at a few conferences or on panels, too. 

If you would like more about what I’ve been thinking (or dreaming) about, take look my blogs:
http: //interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com
http://tshwi.blogspot.com
http://techpsych.blogspot.com

Lynn