UB Professor Receives Google Faculty Research Award
March 2, 2015
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Greg Walsh, assistant professor in the University of Baltimore's Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies in the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of a 2015 Google Faculty Research Award for his proposal, "Online Kidsteam: Enabling geographically distributed children to participate in technology design."
For the last two years, Walsh has led UB's intergenerational design team, KidsteamUB, a program that partners city children ages 7-11 with researchers to work together to design new technologies for young people and families. Walsh's proposed research aims to investigate the use of an online social network, Online Kidsteam, to enable children and adult designers to exchange ideas and collaborate on design work regardless of location.
"We're going to use our own design techniques to create new interactions and user experiences for distributed co-design," Walsh said. "I'm extremely excited and humbled to win this award and to see such a predominant tech company begin to invest in thinking about children and creativity."
Google Faculty Research Awards are intended to support cutting-edge research in computer science, engineering and related fields. These highly competitive one-year grants support the work of world-class faculty members at top universities around the world.
Google's innovative award will provide Walsh with $42,046 of unrestricted funds to support his project. Additionally, he will have a project liaison at Google with whom he will discuss research directions, provide project updates and exchange ideas.
Learn more about Greg Walsh and UB's Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences.
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