4/15/21
Introducing the Immersive Creation Studio: Producing XR Learning Environments at ASU // Robert LiKamWa

ABSTRACT

Virtual (VR), augmented (AR) and mixed (MR) reality blend physical and digital worlds in unique ways, and together form the concept of extended reality (XR). The Immersive Creation Studio (ICS) in ASU's Learning Futures Collaboratory is an emerging place for students to design such XR experiences at ASU to understand the novel and deeper learning opportunities afforded by these kinds of digitally immersive activities and experiences. To this end, teams of students in the ICS will collaboratively build immersive platforms for learners across the university to explore in XR, create in XR, and learn through XR. Since its inception, students in the ICS have built prototypes for a VR Career Arcade for students to explore potential career pathways, an AR Scavenger Hunt for students to find physical resources for learning, an ASU Fall 2020 Commencement AR app to watch digital events unfold in physical spaces, and other projects that serve as proof-of-concept of the potential for students to build inspiring platforms towards engaged atmospheres of learning. From here, with a deep focus on participatory co-creation of XR experiences, the ICS seeks to involve ASU's students, faculty, and the communities ASU serves to empower the broad subject matter expertise, lived experience, and needs and desires across ASU and beyond.

This talk will discuss the origination of the Immersive Creation Studio (originally branded as the XR @ ASU initiative), the pilot XR project experiences created in our early phase of growth, our plans for the near future, and how students and faculty can get involved in our ongoing mission to shape new ways of learning. ([ Ссылка ])

Bio: Robert LiKamWa is an Assistant Professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. He directs the Meteor Studio research lab, which explores the research and design of software and hardware for mobile Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, and visual computing systems. To this end, Meteor Studio’s research and design projects span three arcs: (i) advanced visual capture and processing systems, (ii) systems for hybrid virtual-physical immersion through augmentation of senses, and (iii) design frameworks for data-driven augmented reality and virtual reality storytelling and sensemaking. LiKamWa is also the director of the ASU Immersive Creation Studio at the Learning Futures Collaboratory, which seeks to imagine learning 3 - 5 years in the future and to build proof-of-concepts and prototypes for such learning platforms. Prior to coming to ASU, LiKamWa completed his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at Rice University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. LiKamWa is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, and a MobiSys '13 Best Paper Award.

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