Supercomputer Applications
Notes for Imagining the Future
Dr. Carrie Heeter
Friday, April 5th 8th Period
About Dr. Heater
Dr. Heeter is a Director of the Comm Tech
Lab (http://commtechlab.msu.edu/), Creative Director of Virtual
University (http://vu.msu.edu/), and a Professor of
Telecommunication at Michigan State University. She lives
and works from her home in San Francisco. In a short sketch
about herself she says: "Posing as an inventor, artist and
researcher, I explore the potential of emerging communication
technologies to create new kinds of experiences. Particular
domains of experience I care most about include
enhancements of learning, personal relationships, and
creativity." She was a Winner of the 1995 Discover Magazine
Software Innovation of the Year award.
More About Dr. Heater's Presentation
- Dr Carrie Heeter will first give 15 min presentation.
She will send us rich media content with Flash and
audio, which we will distribute to all schools on CD.
On the day this will be played on each site as the
quality of transmitted video/audio would not be good
to view this remotely.
- we will have Q&A session and the topics will be
children's garden and "space pioneers" that Dr. Heeter
is currently working on.
Our task is to familiarize ourselves with the solutions
and/or descriptions offered in the web sites. On
the day we will take part in discussions where we
will suggest extensions of this or similar work, or
combining it with some other systems that we know
of. The main web sites are:
Children's garden is a web site that has won about
15 awards and is an unusual spatial presence interface
packing about 633 links into a small screen, integrating
real and virtual. One of the kids tour in the garden is: