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- The ATLAS Institute is delighted to welcome Anthony Pinter to the CU Boulder faculty this fall as a teaching assistant professor. He teaches courses on web development, computational thinking and programming, focusing on how data
- Beginning this year, ATLAS faculty member Joel Swanson is promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure in the Herbst Program for Ethics, Engineering and Society. A member of the ATLAS faculty since 2005, Swanson played
- The ATLAS Institute and the College of Music are delighted to welcome Grace Leslie to the CU Boulder faculty this fall as an assistant professor in the ATLAS Institute with a tenure home in the College of Music. Leslie is an
- Watch Teaching Assistant Professor Annie Margaret talk aboutsocial media's role in teen self esteem in this webinar by Forward Together, anorganization that develops resources for parent-to-youth and youth-to-youth communication and relationship building.
- ATLAS Institute'sUnstable Design Lab, directed byLaura Devendorf, willhostits thirdexperimental weaving residency this spring to develop techniques and open-source resources that support collaboration andinnovation across the fiber arts and engineering communities.New this year, the lab will actively work to grow community at the intersection of craft and technology through inviting interested parties to attenda series of experimental weaving talks.
- Fulbright IrelandUSA has announced that CU Boulders ATLAS Institute will host Fulbright Scholar Eoin Whelan, professor of business analytics and society at the National 勛圖厙 of Ireland, Galway, during summer 2023.
- Researchers from ATLAS Institute's Unstable Design, THING, Living Matter and Superhuman Computing labs presented four papers, including three that received Honorable Mention awards, at the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '22).
- Prior psychology findings show humans can communicate distinct emotions solely through touch. In this award-winning work presented at DIS'22, THING Labresearchers hypothesize that similar effects might also be apply to robotic touch.
- Exploring biofoam as a Material for Tangible Interaction, authored by Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Netta Ofer, Shanel Wu, Mary Etta West, Mirela Alistar and Laura Devendorf introducedthe DIS audience to biofoam, a water soluble and biodegradable material thatcan be made conductive.
- An Introduction to Weave Structure for HCI: A How-to and Reflection on Modes of Exchange, authored by Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf, director of the Unstable Design Lab, Sasha De Koninck, an ATLAS-affiliated PhD candidate,and Etta Sandry, weaver-in-residence, received aBest Pictorial Honorable Mention award at theACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '22).