CRA - Computing Innovations Fellowship ($120,000) "Research Through Design: Exploring Distributed Communication between Users in Developed and Developing Countries". 09/01/2010-08/30/2012
This funds a post-doc to explore how infrastructural and cultural differences affect communication, economic exchanges, and connectedness between African immigrants and individuals in their countries of origin. (PI)
NSF IIS-0829625 ($119,951) “CPATH CB: Distributed Expertise in Enhancing Computing Education with Connections to the Arts” 09/01/2008-08/31/2011
Pathways to Integrated Undergraduate Computing Education grant for workshops to bring together educators in and out of computing at the middle levels of undergraduate education. (PI)
NSF ESI-0442469 ($75,000) “Planning "Inside Phoebe's Field" 01/01/2005-06/30/2006
Informal Science Education grant for the development and design of prototype traveling museum exhibition. (co-PI)
NSF CNS-0423611($345,101) “Towards Unbounded Display” 08/15/2004-07/31/2009
CNS-CISE Research Resource grant for large displays for comparative HCI studies. (co-PI)
Best Engineering Project, Virginia Tech Campus Research Symposium March, 2006
for “Embodied Data Objects: Tangible Interfaces to Information Appliances”
Gold Medal, I.D. magazine Interactive Design Review June, 2001
for the design of the ReadingWall in the “XFR: experiments in the Future of Reading” exhibition.
Silver Medal, I.D. magazine Interactive Design Review June, 2001
for the design of the ListenReader in the “XFR: experiments in the Future of Reading” exhibition.
Western Home Award, Sunset Magazine / American Institute of Architects October 1995
for the design of my house in Portola Valley, CA