Original bio (update below):
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:
Main blog:
http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

Other blogs:
http://techpsych.blogspot.com
http://tshwi.blogspot.com

Update:
I am currently working full-time as a school psychologist, as I put my studies on hold due to the economic downturn a few years ago.  My main school is a program for students with significant disabilities, including autism.  At this school, we have a number of large touch-screen computers, a couple of multi-touch tablets, and interactive whiteboards in every classroom.  (I also work at a magnet high school for technology and the arts.)

When I’m not at my “day job”, I am usually doing something related to technology, and continue to write about NUI-related technologies on my Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.  I’ve featured the work of many NUI-group members and am always delighted to learn about new projects and share them on my blog. I usually get an increase in visits to my blog when I feature a video of innovative technology in action and welcome contacts from NUI-group members.

Over the past two years, I’ve participated as a workshop organizer for ACM-CHI.  The title of this year’s workshop is “Educational Interfaces, Technology, and Software”, and is part of the Child-Computer Interaction community. Here is the link to the workshop’s website:  https://sites.google.com/site/eist2012/

I’m a co-editor of a special theme issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing on Child Computer Interaction. To learn more, take a look at the PUC’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150548291515458

Lynn