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WM Harris

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W. Michelle Harris

Associate Professor

Interactive Games & Media

Rochester Institute of Technology

office 70-2573, phone 475-4487

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Detail of Selected Works for external tenure review

Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

Education

Publications & Presentations

Exhibitions

Honors

Activities

Work Experience

Fall 2003 - presentRochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, NY

Associate Professor

Faculty member in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, School of

Interactive Games and Media. Instruction in new media development, human-computer

interaction, experience design and physical computing.

Summer 2001Wet Electrics

New York, NY

Quality Assurance Analyst

MIDI and serial communication testing specialist for first release of Production

Designer, theatrical show control software.

2000 - AugustOrganic

New York, NY

Information Architect

Produce task analyses, usage scenarios, site architecture maps, and site schematic

prototypes for corporate websites.

1993 - 1999Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Richland, WA

IT Research Scientist

Based on customer needs and an iterative feedback process (using Photoshop mock-ups and

interactive Director prototypes) designed user interfaces for information visualization

and analysis software development projects. Co-wrote white papers and project proposals,

and produced online user manuals.

Development and interface design for web-based collaboration software. Responsibilities

included CGI server development for the web-based Electronic Notebook and the website

registration system, plus website design and development in HTML.

Developed interactive CD-ROMs and presentations in Director and PowerPoint for customers

and for internal strategic use.

As part of the Battelle Technical Assistance Program, conducted training in Director for

a local new media company.

Key contributor to the initial architecture and design of Pachelbel, a WWW-based

structured learning environment which has since been tailored to instruct on a variety of

subjects, such as the information technology capabilities of PNNL.

User interface design lead and member of GIS programming team for the FEMIS, an emergency

management support system integrating several off-the-shelf software tools with a Visual

Basic front end. Led customer group needs analysis, feedback, and software testing

sessions.

Past projects also include developing a data collection application in Director for

detecting threats depicted in Quicktime movies, and creating an appealing, easy-to-use

interface in Visual Basic for a textile product sourcing database from Auburn University.

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1990 - 1993Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

Graduate Assistant, Human-Machine Systems

Designed system which adapts a visually-oriented intelligent tutor into an intelligent

computer assistant for aiding satellite ground control analysts. Upgraded research

software (including a real-time, object-oriented simulation and a tutoring system) to run

in a UNIX Motif environment using the TAE graphical user interface builder and a

combination of C and C++ modules.

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Education

2000 - 2002

M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications

Tisch School of the Arts

New York University

New York, NY

Thesis project: the Soft Wall. A wall of spandex becomes a dance set piece. As a dancer

presses into the fabric, sensors along the fabric's edge send MIDI signals to a laptop to

control sound, lights, and even the video projected onto the Soft Wall.

1986 - 1990

B. S. Computer Engineering (dual Engineering & Public Policy)

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

1986

Gloucester High School (valedictorian)

Gloucester, VA

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Publications & Presentations

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Exhibitions

2012

Reflection & Identity

Dual show

Harris, W., and M. Roman. Exhibited at the Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY.

2011

No Boundaries: New Expressions In African American Art

Group show

Cray, H., S. Dunwoody, W. Harris, and E. Wajed. Exhibited at the Baobab Cultural Center,

Rochester, NY.

2010

Be Here Now Ensemble

Improvisational dance, music and sound-reactive video-projected set

Suarez, J. and ensemble. Performed at the Musselman Arts Triathalon, Smith Opera House,

Geneva, NY.

Be Here Now

Suarez, J. and ensemble. Performed at SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY.

Her Ghosts, Mirrors and Pixels

Solo show of 7 video installation and mixed media artworks

Harris, W. Exhibited at the Four Walls Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.

Barbie Mirror

Interactive video projection

W. Harris. Exhibited at Black History Month Family Day, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester,

NY.

2009

Barbie Mirror

Harris, W. Exhibited at Performance Art Night, Rochester Contemporary Art Center/Multi-

Use Community Cultural Center, Rochester, NY.

RGB Dresses

Harris, W. Exhibited at the Artech Digital Art Exhibition at ArtAwake, Rochester, NY.

2008

Mud Flaps I & II

Mixed media

Harris, W. Exhibited at "Open-Mic Feminist Performance Party" at the Spark Contemporary

Art Space, Syracuse, NY.

Mud Flaps I & II

Harris, W. Exhibited at "Highways & Byways: American Road Culture", a juried show of the

Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY.

SummerLakeEating

Video installation

Fractured Time

Interactive video projection

Harris, W. Exhibited at the Artech Digital Art Exhibition, Rochester, NY.

Artisans Gallery, Arlington, VA.

Wave Shadows

Dance with the Soft Wall - invented fabric instrument to control music, lights, and

projected video

Harris, W. Performed at the NYU/ITP Spring Show, New York, NY.

MicWrapper - Baby, I Love You

Singing with the MicWrapper, an invented MIDI instrument

Harris, W. Performed at the NYU/ITP Spring Show, New York, NY.

2001

Squaring the Circle

Interactive hopscotch design for dance within a multi-video set

Harris, W. Used in performance by the AMDaT dance company in the Maria Hernandez Park,

New York, NY.

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Honors

2009

MuCCC/RoCo Performance Art Night - Barbie Mirror

Borek Performance Art Award

Artech Digital Art Exhibition - RGB Dresses

Most Innovative Entry

Best in Show - Professional

2006

GCCIS Digital Arts Competition - Upper NY Bay: 2001

Most Innovative Entry

1st Place, 3D Installation

2005

U.S. Patent 6,897,866

"Method and apparatus for entity relationship visualization"

2002

U.S. Patent 6,466,211

"Data visualization apparatuses, computer-readable mediums, computer data signals

embodied in a transmission medium, data visualization methods, and digital computer data

visualization methods"

2000 - 2002

NYU Tisch Graduate Fellow

1998, 1996

PNNL Software Creator Award - SPIRE

1998

PNNL Software Creator Award - Pachelbel

1995

PNNL Software Creator Award - FEMIS

1990

NSF Graduate Fellow

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Activities

2004 - present

member, Rochester Contemporary

regional artists' collective

2002 - 2003

member, Del Ray Artisans

regional artists' collective

2001 - 2002

intern, Troika Ranch

Software cuemaster and stagehand for the dance/media performance troupe

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