Special Lecture
The World as a Palette
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Kimiko Ryokai
Kimiko's research focuses on building new expressive tools that take advantage of people's familiarity with the physical world, and studying how new media expand the interaction space and the change that could be brought out in the way people perceive this extended interaction space. Kimiko will illustrate this research with her project "The World as a Palette," an ongoing effort to design and develop tools that enable people to turn their world into a color palette consisting not only of colors, but also textures, movements, and sounds. The potential of new interactive media that pushes us to actively expand the way we perceive the world and make new meanings will be discussed.
Kimiko Ryokai received her PhD and MS in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT in 1999 and 2005 respectively. At the MIT Media Lab, Kimiko was a member of the Tangible Media Group and the Gesture and Narrative Language Group, where she developed a number of tangible interactive systems to facilitate collaborative and creative learning. Kimiko's work has been presented at CHI, SIGGRAPH, CSCL, IUI, as well as exhibited at international venues such as Ars Electronica, Children's Museum Kyoto, Japan, AIGA, and IDSA (Gold Award). Kimiko is currently at IDEO as an interaction design and human factors specialist.