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<div class=""><b class="">Jennifer Jacobs</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Technology and Computer Science</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">University of California Santa Barbara</b></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Thursday, January 19th</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">2:00pm - 3:00pm</b></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class="">Expressive Computation: Integrating Computation with Manual and
Physical Making</b></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class="">Abstract:</b> </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Computers are increasingly displacing many manual practices in favor of procedural,
generative, and automated production. Despite this trend, computational and manual forms of creation are
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">not</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
mutually exclusive. In this talk, I argue that by developing methods to integrate
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">computational production with manual and physical making,
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">we can dramatically expand the expressive potential of computers and broaden participation in computational production. To support this argument,
I will present research across three categories:</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">1) Integrating physical and manual creation with computer programming through domain-specific programming environments. 2) Broadening professional
computational making through computational fabrication technologies.</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">3) Broadening entry points into computer science learning by blending programming with art, craft, and design. Collectively, my research demonstrates
how developing computational workflows, representations, and interfaces for manual and physical making can enable manual creators to leverage existing knowledge and skills. Furthermore, I’ll discuss how collaborating with practitioners from art, craft, and
manufacturing can diversify approaches to knowledge production in systems engineering and open new research opportunities in computer science.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class="">Bio:</b></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jennifer Jacobs is Assistant Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara in Media Arts and Technology and Computer Science
(by courtesy). At UCSB, she directs the Expressive Computation Lab, which investigates ways to support expressive computer-aided design, art, craft, and manufacturing by developing new computational tools, abstractions, and systems that integrate emerging
forms of computational creation and digital fabrication with traditional materials, manual control, and non-linear design practices. Prior to joining UCSB, Jennifer received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a Postdoctoral Fellow
at the Brown Institute of Media Innovation within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. She also received an M.F.A. and B.F.A from Hunter College and the University of Oregon respectively. Her research has been presented at leading human-computer
interaction research venues and journals including UIST, DIS, SIGGRAPH, and, most prominently, at the flagship ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), where she received two best paper awards and one best paper honorable mention award in
the past four years. As primary investigator, she has received two research grants in 2020 and 2021 from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in computational fabrication for manufacturing and commercial craft.
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<div>Holly Santos<br class="">
Executive Assistant to Michael J. Franklin, Chairman<br class="">
Department of Computer Science<br class="">
The University of Chicago<br class="">
5730 S Ellis Ave-217 Chicago, IL 60637<br class="">
P: 773-834-8977<br class="">
<a href="mailto:hsantos@uchicago.edu" class="">hsantos@uchicago.edu</a></div>
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