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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 26, 2008
Teri Nagel
College of Architecture
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Computing, sociocultural contexts and product design come together.
Digital applications becoming more relevant.Claudia Rebola is co-directing the recently formed Responsive Objects, Surfaces and Spaces Research Group (ROSS), which links computing, traditional product design and the sociocultural context of digital media technologies.
ROSS aims to provide an innovative cross-disciplinary perspective on physical-virtual codesign. In the past decade computing has progressively moved beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts, evidenced by growing research trends in tangible interfaces; physical computing; ubiquitous computing; and mobile and embedded computing.
As digital applications move from desktop and office workplace settings, they gain relevance within our everyday lives and spaces: homes, classrooms, public spaces, cultural or historical settings, scientific laboratories and beyond. At the same time, as physical objects and spaces gain new computational behaviors, they become increasingly complex: customizable, reprogrammable, repurposable and interoperable.
Rebola, an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design in the College of Architecture, coordinates ROSS with Ali Mazalek and Kenneth Knoespel of the School of Literature, Communications and Culture in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Read about current projects and upcoming events at ross.gatech.edu.
