AWARDS AND GRANTS

Grants:

NSF IIS-1132227 ($199,998) CE21 Planning Grant: Integrating Computational Thinking Into Middle School Curriculum10/01/2011-03/31/2013 (Co-PI)

NSF IIS-1018607 ($499,276) HCC-Small: Human micro-coordination in a world of pervasive computing: understanding emotional, personal, interpersonal and behavioral interconnections 9/1/2010-8/31/2013 (Co-PI)

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)

Awards:

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