Date & Time:
January 19, 2023 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location:
Crerar 390, 5730 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL,
01/19/2023 02:00 PM 01/19/2023 03:00 PM America/Chicago Jennifer Jacobs (UCSB) – Expressive Computation: Integrating Computation with Manual and Physical Making Department of Computer Science Seminar Crerar 390, 5730 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL,

Computers are increasingly displacing many manual practices in favor of procedural, generative, and automated production. Despite this trend, computational and manual forms of creation are not mutually exclusive. In this talk, I argue that by developing methods to integrate computational production with manual and physical making, we can dramatically expand the expressive potential of computers and broaden participation in computational production. To support this argument, I will present research across three categories: 1) Integrating physical and manual creation with computer programming through domain-specific programming environments. 2) Broadening professional computational making through computational fabrication technologies. 3) Broadening entry points into computer science learning by blending programming with art, craft, and design. Collectively, my research demonstrates how developing computational workflows, representations, and interfaces for manual and physical making can enable manual creators to leverage existing knowledge and skills. Furthermore, I’ll discuss how collaborating with practitioners from art, craft, and manufacturing can diversify approaches to knowledge production in systems engineering and open new research opportunities in computer science.

Speakers

Jennifer Jacobs

Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Technology and Computer Science

Jennifer Jacobs is Assistant Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara in Media Arts and Technology and Computer Science (by courtesy). At UCSB, she directs the Expressive Computation Lab, which investigates ways to support expressive computer-aided design, art, craft, and manufacturing by developing new computational tools, abstractions, and systems that integrate emerging forms of computational creation and digital fabrication with traditional materials, manual control, and non-linear design practices. Prior to joining UCSB, Jennifer received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Brown Institute of Media Innovation within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. She also received an M.F.A. and B.F.A from Hunter College and the University of Oregon respectively. Her research has been presented at leading human-computer interaction research venues and journals including UIST, DIS, SIGGRAPH, and, most prominently, at the flagship ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), where she received two best paper awards and one best paper honorable mention award in the past four years. As primary investigator, she has received two research grants in 2020 and 2021 from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in computational fabrication for manufacturing and commercial craft.

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