Answering the call: Sri Kurniawan designs assistive tech to improve quality of life

Illustration of a person wearing a VR headset with flames in the background

Inspired by the accidents she witnessed as an engineer in the oil fields, the CITRIS principal investigator and UC Santa Cruz scholar of human-centered design puts her expertise to work serving vulnerable populations. “Since starting my career, I have been working on a variety of assistive technologies, in the forms of games, computer and tablet … Read more

CHI 2024 UCSC Contribution

CHI 2024, Surfing the World, 11-16 May 2024

The Department of Computational Media at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz will contribute a diverse set of publications to CHI 2024, the flagship annual conference for Human-Computer Interaction and Design.  UCSC Computational Media researchers made a significant impact at CHI 2024. They authored 12 full papers, including a Best Paper Award … Read more

Exploring Generative AI possibilities with Magy Seif El-Nasr, UC Santa Cruz Computational Media Chair

Portrait of Magy Seif El-Nasr

Many conversations about generative artificial intelligence in higher education are about academic integrity and threats to learning. Those issues are serious and challenging. But there is a generative side to generative AI, and some faculty, like Magy Seif El-Nasr, Professor and Department Chair of Computational Media, are helping both students and their fellow educators explore … Read more