Professional and Community Service:
For details and recent work, see the current vita.
- Integrating Education in the Arts and Humanities with Education in Science, Engineering, Technology, and Medicine, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and hosted by the Board on Higher Education and Workforce of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, 2015.
- Nature Climate Leadership Summit, American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment, 2014
- Design + Computing Advisory Panel, UNC-Charlotte, 2012-2013
- Master's Taskforce, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences / Biomedical Sciences, Wake Forest University, 2012-2013
- Working Group on Advanced Manufacturing, Institute for Emerging Issues, NC State University, 2012-2013
- Broadcasting Production and Technology Advisory Committee, Forsyth Technical Community College, 2012
- Advisory Board, Design Computing and Cognition International Conference, 2007, 2008
- Reviewer, William James Foundation Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition, 2007, 2008
- Advisory/Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2006-2007, 2009-2011, 2013
- Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 2006
- Panelist, Emerging Technologies, MIT CIO Symposium, Cambridge, 2006
- Delegate, World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, 2005
- Conference Committee, Interaction Design and Children, 2005
- Key Rapporteur, Learning Enablers, Towards a Learning Society, Brussels, 2005
- eLearningeuropa expert, Pau Education, Barcelona, 2005
- Invitee, Creating, Sharing and Re-using eLearning content, National College of Ireland, 2004
- Program Committee, Story Representation, Mechanism and Context, ACM Multimedia, 2004
- Advisory Board, Liberating Learning, Dublin Digital Hub, 2004
- Program Committee, 8th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia, 2004
- Advisory Board, 6th International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design, 2003-2004
- Program Committee, ACM Technology-Enhanced Learning, 2003
- Vice-Chair, International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, 2002-2004
- International Committee, Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design conferences, University of Sydney, Australia, and University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 2000-2002
- Reviewer, MIT Press, 2000-2001
- Reviewer, Design Computing on the Net, 2000
- Reviewer, Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund, 2000
- Juror, Department of Architecture, MIT, 2000
- Invitee, Digital Childhood: A Research Agenda on Human Development & Technology, 2000
- Session Chair, Adaptive Hypermedia, International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2000
- New Media SIG, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, 1999
- Reviewer, Spatial Cognition II, Springer-Verlag, 1999
- Juror, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1998-2000
- Panel Chair, Parent/Child/Physician Communication, Future of Health Technologies, 1998
- Guest coordinator, Learning Designs, Multimedia Unplugged, neoMuseum, Japan, 1998
- Vision Award Committee, Boston Film/Video Foundation, 1998
- Reviewer, ACM CHI conference, 1998
- Reviewer, IBM Systems Journal, 1997-2001
- Advisory Board, Ocean of Know / Young MacDonald's Farm (NSF-funded informal education consortium, NY), 1997-1999
- Coordinator, Internship Program, MERL, 1997-1999
- Facilitator, 2B1 Foundation (MIT Media Lab project on technologies in 3rd World countries), 1997
- Reviewer, ACM Multimedia conference, 1997
- Board of Special Reviewers, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 1996-2000
- Reviewer, International Conference on the Learning Sciences, 1996
- Mentor, Keypals program, Cambridge Public Schools, 1996
- Juror, Interaction Design Awards, ACM Interactions, 1995-1997
- Reviewer, IEEE Multimedia conference, 1995-1997
- Invitee, NSF Workshop on a Research Agenda for Educational Technology, 1995
- Atelier Gargarian (collective of learning researchers), 1995
- Juror, Rhode Island School of Design, 1994, 2000
- Reviewer, International Conference on Technology and Education, 1993
- Reviewer, ACM SIGGRAPH conference, 1993
- Editorial Board, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press, 1992-present
- Member, Association of Computing Machinery, various years 1992-present
- Mentor, Research Science Institute, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
- Reader, Reading Service for the Blind, Marshfield MA, 1992
- Reader, Radio Reading Service, Baltimore MD, 1977
- Announcer, WBJC, Baltimore MD, 1974