Seminar 02P - Augmented Minds, Smart Bodies: Wearable Tech Enters the Academy (separate registration is required)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 | 1:30PM–5:00PM | Meeting Room 140-141
Session Type: Professional Development
This timely seminar will explore the impact of Wearable Technologies on higher education through research in the cognitive sciences. We will study and demo a broad range of devices that promise change, peril, opportunity, and innovation. We will analyze how these increasingly transparent devices reshape the teaching and learning environment as well as institutional culture.


OUTCOMES: Investigate the developments and proliferation of wearable devices * Explore how virtual, visual, and sensory experiences can transform learning * Analyze challenges that wearables pose for privacy and data analytics

Presenters

  • Emory Craig

    Interim CIO, College of New Rochelle

  • Maya Georgieva

    Senior Director, Innovation Center / XR, AI and Quantum Labs, The New School