Loren Olson is a clinical associate professor at the School of Arts, Media and Engineering. His research work is in the areas of mixed reality rehabilitation, interaction architecture, and media systems for education. Prior to joining the School of Arts, Media and Engineering, he spent 16 years creating animation and effects for film and television. His awards include eight Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards.
Recently, a focus of his work has been the creation of a tool for peer review in the classroom with David Tinapple. CritViz is an online framework for supporting real-time critique, conversation, and peer ranking of creative work in the classroom. In creative classes where student work cannot be entirely graded on objective criteria, classes often arrange critique sessions to provide direction and feedback to students, raise their level of performance, and teach them to give and receive constructive criticism. Critiques usually work best in classes small enough to sustain a single discussion. However, faced with the challenge of teaching large undergraduate digital art and computer programming classes of 50+ students, a solution was needed to allow faculty to orchestrate critiques in large classes whose size normally prohibits them. While leveraging the participatory web seemed to be a sound approach, no existing tools effectively served this purpose. Accordingly, CritViz was created to scale up critiques for large classes. Through CritViz’s countdown timers, assignment uploading, and randomized peer feedback, we can now run effective critiques in much larger classes and have seen changes in overall classroom “motivational structure.”
Loren Olson co-directs the Digital Culture Summer Institute. DCSI is a 3-week summer day program for junior high and high school students. The program engages young students with a variety of creative digital projects that captivate students artistic and technical sides via a series of short project-focused modules such as digital music production, computational photography, electronic musical instrument construction, game design and making, digital fabrication, and projection mapping. Core to our educational mission is the idea that key 21st century STEM skills such as computational thinking, problem solving, creative coding, collaboration, innovation, and information literacy can be taught in a highly effective manner by using creative challenges as an intrinsic motivator. By engaging students in creative digital arts projects they are naturally driven to acquire many new complex skills that they might otherwise consider unapproachable.
B.S. Computer Science, Arizona State University 1988
Rikakis, T., Tinapple, D., and Olson, L. (2013). The Digital Culture Degree: A competency-based interdisciplinary program spanning engineering and the arts. Accepted for publication in proceeding of Frontiers in Education Conference 2013.
Sadauskas, J., Tinapple, D., Olson, L. & Atkinson, R. (2013). CritViz: A Network Peer Critique Structure for Large Classrooms. In . Jan Herrington et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2013 (pp. 1437-1445). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Tinapple, D., Olson, L. and Sadauskas, J. (2013). CritViz: Web-Based Software Supporting Peer Critique in Large Creative Classrooms. In Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology, Volume 15, Number 1, January 2013. 29-35.
Tinapple, D., Sadauskas, J., & Olson, L. (2013). Digital culture creative classrooms (DC3). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children – IDC ’13 (pp. 380–383). New York, NY, USA: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/2485760.2485803
Lehrer N., Rajko S., Siwiak D., Wallis I., Baran M, Chan M., Kidane A., Koziupa T., Olson L., Tinapple D. Thrii, ACM Multimedia 2010.
David Birchfield, Ellen Campana, Sarah Hatton, Mina Johnson-Glenberg, Aisling Kelliher, Loren Olson, Christopher Martinez, Philippos Savvides, Lisa Tolentino, and Sibel Uysal. 2009. Embodied and mediated learning in SMALLab: a student-centered mixed-reality environment. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies (SIGGRAPH '09). ACM, New York, NY.
Y. Chen, H. Sundaram, T. Rikakis, L. Olson, T. Ingalls and J. He (2008), "Experiential Media Systems - The Biofeedback Project, in Multimedia Content Analysis: Theory and Applications", A. Divakaran (eds.), Springer Verlag, Oct. 2008.
Isaac Wallis, Todd Ingalls, Thanassis Rikakis, Loren Olson, Yinpeng Chen, Weiwei Xu, Hari Sundarum. "Realtime Sonification of Movement for an Immersive Stroke Rehabilitation Environment." International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2007), Montreal, Canada, 2007.
Yinpeng Chen, He Huang, Weiwei Xu, Richard Isaac Wallis, Hari Sundaram, Thanassis Rikakis, Todd Ingalls, Loren Olson, Jiping He; "The Design of a Real-Time, Multimodal Biofeedback System for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation." ACM Mulitmedia 2006.
Yinpeng Chen, He Huang, Weiwei Xu, Richard Isaac Wallis, Hari Sundaram, Thanassis Rikakis, Todd Ingalls, Loren Olson, Jiping He; "A Real-Time, Multimodal Biofeedback System For Stroke Patient Rehabilitation" (demo paper) ACM Multimedia 2006.
J. James, T. Ingalls, G. Qian, L. Olson, D. Whiteley, S. Wong, T. Rikakis,.”Movement-based Interactive Dance Performance.” Proceedings of SIG ACM Multimedia 2006. Santa Barbara, California
He Huang, Todd Ingalls, Loren Olson, Kathleen Ganley, Thanassis Rikakis, Jiping He; “Interactive, Multimodal Biofeedback System for Task-Oriented Neural Rehabilitation”; IEEE-EMBC 2005, Shanghai, China.
D. Whiteley, G. Qian, T. Rikakis, J. James, T. Ingalls, S. Wong, L. Olson “Real-Time Tracking of Multiple People from Unlabelled Markers and Its Application in Interactive Dance,” Proceedings British Machine Vision Conference. Oxford, UK, September 5-8. 2005.
H. Huang, K. Ganley, T. Ingalls, L. Olson, T. Rikakis, J. He, “Multimodal Biofeedback as a Training Tool Following Stroke,” Society for Neuroscience. Program No. 989.25. 2005.
Huang H, He J, Rikakis T, Ingalls T, Olson L. “A new framework of biofeedback system for neural rehabilitation.” Biomedical Engineering Society Fall meeting. 2004.
H. Huang, J. He, T. Rikakis, T. Ingalls, L. Olson, “Design of biofeedback system to assist the robot-aided movement therapy for stroke rehabilitation,” Society for Neuroscience. Program No. 181.18. 2004.
G. Qian, F. Guo, T. Ingalls, L. Olson, J. James, T. Rikakis, “A Gesture-Driven Multimodal Interactive Dance System,” IEEE, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. Taibei, Taiwan, China. June 27-30. 2004.
T. Ingalls, T. Rikakis, J. James, G. Qian, L. Olson, F. Guo, S. Wong, “A Movement Recognition Engine for the Development of Interactive Multimedia Works,” The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour. Motion, Emotion and Cognition - ConGAS Symposium on Gesture Interfaces for Multimedia Systems. University of Leeds, UK. March 29-30. 2004.
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 230 | Programming for Media Arts |
AME 435 | Mobile Development |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 535 | Mobile Development |
CSE 580 | Practicum |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 230 | Programming for Media Arts |
AME 430 | Mac Development for Media Arts |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 494 | Special Topics |
CSE 580 | Practicum |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 598 | Special Topics |
AME 599 | Thesis |
AME 792 | Research |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 230 | Programming for Media Arts |
AME 435 | Mobile Development |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 493 | Honors Thesis |
AME 535 | Mobile Development |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 230 | Programming for Media Arts |
AME 430 | Mac Development for Media Arts |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 492 | Honors Directed Study |
AME 494 | Special Topics |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 598 | Special Topics |
AME 792 | Research |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 230 | Programming for Media Arts |
AME 435 | Mobile Development |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 493 | Honors Thesis |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 535 | Mobile Development |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 230 | Programming for Media Arts |
AME 430 | Mac Development for Media Arts |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 494 | Special Topics |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 598 | Special Topics |
AME 792 | Research |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 230 | Programming for Media Arts |
AME 435 | Mobile Development |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 535 | Mobile Development |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 790 | Reading and Conference |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 230 | Programming for Media Arts |
AME 430 | Mac Development for Media Arts |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 494 | Special Topics |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 598 | Special Topics |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 792 | Research |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 230 | Programming for Media Arts |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 494 | Special Topics |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
AME 598 | Special Topics |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 430 | Mac Development for Media Arts |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 485 | Digital Culture Capstone I |
AME 486 | Digital Culture Capstone II |
AME 494 | Special Topics |
AME 499 | Individualized Instruction |
AME 590 | Reading And Conference |
AME 592 | Research |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 598 | Special Topics |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
AME 484 | Internship |
AME 592 | Research |
AME 593 | Applied Project |
AME 599 | Thesis |
AME 684 | Internship |
AME 792 | Research |
AME 799 | Dissertation |