Scholarship | William Bares @ Whitman College Computer Science

My research complements my teaching in the Computer Science program and explores novel interaction metaphors in which creative human artists collaborate with intelligent software assistants and contextualizing computing education in the arts to broaden participation. My Computer Science education research seeks to apply creative applications of computing in an effort to broaden participation in computing and to create accessible forms of interaction.

Haptics for Accessible Graphics in CS 1. To appear in SIGGRAPH Educator’s Forum 2023. William Bares and Jordan Wirfs-Brock.

Left image has a student wearing a haptic vest walking on a floor projection of a Python Turtle line drawing. The right side image depicts the numeric IDs to select which haptic dots vibrate on the vest. The bottom left is a Python code listing to vibrate the vest dots to communicate Python Turtle turns.

A student wearing a haptic vibration vest walks over a floor projection of a Python Turtle drawing. The Python code listing vibrates the haptic dots to correspond to turns made by the Python Turtle.

Motion-Sensor Programming for Accessible Interfaces. In MOCO 2022.

William Bares, Dexter Aichele, Eva Coulon, Nick Hager, Tina Wang, Julian Le, and Abdelrahman Elawadly. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 26, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3537972.3538006

Stage Together: Remote Rehearsal of Theater Blocking. In MOCO 2022.

Stephanie Fulton, Dexter Aichele, Eva Coulon, Mattew Kizer, Anna Conser, and William Bares. 2022. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3537972.3537977

Floor-projected blocking map

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