WINSLOW BURLESON | SOCIAL INVENTOR
Background
Dr. Winslow Burleson is a social inventor, scholar, researcher, artist, and educator with expertise in Human-Computer Interaction and the Learning Sciences. He has been recognized as a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a pioneering innovator advancing the digital age. The National Academy of Engineering recognized him as one of the “nation's brightest young engineering researchers and educators.” Prior to joining the University of Arizona, he was an Associate Professor at New York University where he served as PI for the NSF Experiential Supercomputing: A Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation Holodeck grant, the only large-scale NSF CISE MRI awarded nationally in 2016. He earned a BA in Bio-Physics from Rice University, MSE in Product Design from Stanford University, and a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. He has authored over 100 scholarly articles, holds eleven patents, and twice received Time Magazine’s Top Inventions of the Year Awards.
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Dr. Burleson is dedicated to helping individuals and teams achieve their full potential. He has accomplished this through the development of personalized learning systems and tools that support creativity. These systems incorporate multimodal sensing, characters, robots, and large-scale immersive environments to facilitate team collaboration and problem-based learning. By utilizing real-time affective, cognitive, and metacognitive sensing and feedback, intelligent tutoring systems designed by Dr. Burleson have been shown to be as effective, or even more effective, than human tutors, while also being more cost-effective and widely available. These systems have impacted tens of thousands of students both domestically and internationally. Additionally, Dr. Burleson's research has been recognized with several patents and best paper awards in leading conferences and journals, making a significant contribution to the advancement of cyberlearning for everyone.
Dr. Burleson is a technology inventor, designer, and evaluator who utilizes behavioral sciences to inform his work, which is brought to life through entrepreneurial endeavors. His research is focused on developing innovative and practical use-inspired interfaces that broaden human experience. These interfaces include flexible displays, wearable computing, assistive technologies, smart homes, human-robot interaction in theatrical settings, and ubiquitous computing designed to foster teamwork in novel collaborative environments and encourage reflection and well-being in natural settings. Dr. Burleson collaborates with academic, industry, and community partners both domestically and internationally, including the ASU Flexible Display Center, the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, Mayo Clinic, LEGO Foundation, and Google and IBM Research, among others.
Dr. Burleson has established himself as an international academic ambassador for transdisciplinary innovation. With over 100 collaborations to his name, he has worked with a diverse array of organizations, including the Exploratorium, Pompidou Centre, and Macarthur Award-winning choreographer Elizabeth STREB's SLAM studio, as well as Phillips, IDEO, Design Continuum, and iRobot, National Geographic Society, Design that Matters, and Future Generations. Twice, these collaborations have resulted in Best Inventions of the Year awards from Time Magazine. Dr. Burleson is also working to establish Inventors' Workshops, a collection of open-access online and community resources that promote a grassroots vision for a U.S. and International Innovation Corps. Through this initiative, he aims to equip the next generation of leaders and innovators to tackle global challenges, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
