Winslow Burleson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Affective Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab working on Affective Learning Companions. He has also been highly involved with the Context-Aware Computing Group since its inception in 1999. Before coming to MIT he worked in the USER Group at IBM's Almaden Research Center in the department of Computer Science. After completing a Master of Science degree at Stanford University's Mechanical Engineering Product Design Program he served as a lecturer on brainstorming, creativity, and visual thinking within that department. Prior work included curriculum development at the SETI Institute, co-principal investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope's Investigation of Binary Asteroids, and consultant to UNICEF and the World Scout Bureau on Healthy Lifestyles for Youth. He holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Rice University.

Curriculum Vita & Portfolio

MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, 617-308-5875, win@media.mit.edu

Patents:

6,717,528 System and Method for Dynamic Feedback Projection from a Hand-Held Pointing Device

6,570,524 Method for Remote Communication with an Addressable Target Using a Generalized Pointing Device

6,567,032 Method of Directing Communication Between Addressable Targets Using a Generalized Pointing Device

6,522,763 Impact-Resistant Electronic Device

6,195,640 Audio Reader [Eye-Tracking]

6,005,209 Thin Keyboard Having Torsion Bar Keyswitch Hinge Members

5,943,041 Folding Keyboard

5,934,454 Thin Keyboard Having Multiple Hinge Members Per Keyswitch

Pending System and Process for Creating Bookmark Web Pages Using Web Browser Intermediaries

Development, Business, Research, Design, and Academic Resources:

Center for Studies in Creativity Buffalo State College, NY

Quality of Life Research Center

Harvard Business School, Entrepreneurial Management

Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland

Stanford University's Center for Design Research (CDR)

IDEO: Product Design

Future Generations: International Development

Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Tomorrow's Professor

Other Fun:

Sea Education Association

NAUI SCUBA Diving Instructor

New England Aids Ride, Participant, rode 350 miles and raised $2,100, July, 2001