I love making things: websites, posters, software, scarves, jewelry, cookies...
anything I can wrap my head around or get my hands on!
education
currently at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
research assistant in the high-low tech group at the media lab
first year ph.d. student in media arts and sciences
previously studied at Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University
certificate in graphic design
graduated from University of California at Santa Cruz (College Nine)
b.a. in computer science, concentration in computer graphics
minor in electronic music
studied abroad with Semester at Sea
publications
LilyPond: An Online Community for Sharing E-Textile Projects
Emily Lovell and Leah Buechley
In Proceedings of Creativity & Cognition (2011)
Living Wall: Programmable Wallpaper for Interactive Spaces
Leah Buechley, David Mellis, Hannah Perner-Wilson, Emily Lovell, and Bonifaz Kauffman
In Proceedings of the Multimedia (2010)
CopyCAD: Remixing Physical Objects with Copy and Paste from the Real World
Sean Follmer, David Carr, Emily Lovell, and Hiroshi Ishii
In Adjunct Proceedings of User Interface Software and Technology (2010)An E-Sewing Tutorial for DIY Learning
Emily Lovell and Leah Buechley
In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (2010)
projects
Getting Hands-On with Soft Circuits (pdf - or order from Lulu)
A workshop guide for educators interested in sharing the expressive and computationally engaging field of e-textiles with their middle and high school students.
LilyPond (website)
A budding e-textile web community that fosters creative collaboration through
the sharing of personal projects. Related: Introductory E-Sewing Tutorials
Virtual Kaleidoscopes (website)
An exploration into rendering/animating planar and spherical kaleidoscopes.
graduate coursework
Technology for Creative Learning (Mitchel Resnick)
Design for Empowerment (Leah Buechley)
New Paradigms for Human-Computer Interaction (Pattie Maes & Hiroshi Ishii)
Applying Cognitive Science to Learning and Teaching (Tina Grotzer, at Harvard Ed)
Technology and Self: Science, Technology, and Memoir (Sherry Turkle)
