Jobs

Employer: California College of the Arts

Title: Chair, Graduate Program in Design

Start Date: January 01, 2006

Employer: Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Title: Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director

Start Date: January 01, 2005

End Date: January 01, 2006

Employer: Art Center College of Design

Title: Chair, Media Design Program

Start Date: January 01, 2002

End Date: January 01, 2006

Employer: various

Title: Consultant and Speaker

Start Date: January 01, 1999

Notes: clients such as Cheskin Research, AT&T, Nielsen Norman Group, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Leapfrog, and the Macarthur Foundation

Employer: Purple Moon

Title: Founder, Vice President of Design, Member of the Board of Directors

Start Date: January 01, 1996

End Date: January 01, 1999

Notes: tranmedia company devoted to preteen girls

Employer: Interval Research Corporation

Title: Research Staff Member

Start Date: January 01, 1992

End Date: January 01, 1997

Notes: managed a four-year research and development effort to understand relationships between gender and technology among children and teens

Employer: various

Title: Consultant in Interaction Design

Start Date: January 01, 1987

End Date: January 01, 1992

Notes: clients such as Apple, LucasArts Entertainment, Epyx, American Interactive Media, Broderbund, Citibank, Carnegie Mellon University, Fujitsu Labs, Paramount New Media, Song Pictures, and the Communication Research Institute of Australia

Employer: Telepresence Research, Inc.

Title: Co-founder, President

Start Date: January 01, 1990

End Date: January 01, 1991

Notes: provided research and development in virtual environments and remote presence systems

Employer: Activision, Inc.

Title: Director of Product Development, Learning and Creativity

Start Date: January 01, 1985

End Date: January 01, 1987

Employer: Atari, Inc

Title: Research Staff Member, Manager of Software Marketing

Start Date: January 01, 1980

End Date: January 01, 1984

Collaborators

Apprenticeships

No apprenticeships on record

Awards

Name: Equity Award

Description: American Association for Higher Education

Date Received: January 01, 2004

Name: Chrysler Award Nominee

Date Received: January 01, 2002

Name: National Design Award in Product Design Nominee

Description: Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Date Received: January 01, 2002

Name: Big Brothers, Big Sisters Achievement Award

Date Received: January 01, 2001

Name: World of Today and Tomorrow Award

Description: Girls Scouts of Santa Clara, CA

Date Received: January 01, 1999

Name: Top 25 Women on the Web

Description: Webgrrls

Date Received: January 01, 1998

Name: 25 Most Influential Working Women

Description: Working Woman

Date Received: January 01, 1997

Exhibitions

No exhibitions on record

Notable Projects

No projects on record

Education

Institution: The Ohio State University

Department: Department of Theatre, theory and criticism

Degree: PhD

End Date: January 01, 1986

Notes: Dissertation: Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System

Institution: The Ohio State University

Department: Department of Theatre, acting and directing

Degree: MFA

End Date: January 01, 1975

Institution: DeFauw University

Department: Speech and Theatre

Degree: BA magna cum laude

End Date: January 01, 1972

Licensing

No licenses on record

Professional Affiliations

No affiliations on record

Publications By

Title: Design Research: Methods and Perspectives

Publisher: MIT Press

Date Published: January 01, 2004

Title: Utopian Entrepreneur

Publisher: MIT Press

Date Published: January 01, 2001

Title: Computers as Theatre

Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Date Published: January 01, 1991

Notes: revised in 1993

Title: The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design

Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Date Published: January 01, 1990

Publications About

No publications about on record