Lab & Pedagogy — Immersion Lab

Faculty Director, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2016 - Ongoing

Started the Immersion Lab 8 years ago at ArtCenter as a space that provides equal access to emerging technologies for art, design, and research. 

Conduct design research on emerging technology through hands-on prototyping in support of cross-disciplinary course programming, IxD curriculum, and design education materials (lectures, workshops, tutorials).

Developed Technology-Centered Design Research methodology as a design research approach and communication strategy for students. It is a primary research method of understanding emerging technologies and mediums through investigative making to inform UX and 3D interaction design opportunities.  

Curate hardware and software library for investigative study - AR/VR, computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, 3D engines, motion capture, spatial computing, and scanning. 
     
Collaborate across ArtCenter departments and with visiting Industry sponsors to create relevant courses that communicate to a diversity of students, learning types, and skill levels.

Sponsors/Partners — Patagonia, Meta Reality Labs, Unity, Leap Motion, Google Daydream, Gravity Sketch, HTC Vive, National Research Group, Oculus, Size Stream, and Snap Inc Research.

Immersion Lab Featured in Core77 — “ArtCenter's Jenny Rodenhouse on Integrating VR/AR Technologies into Design School Curriculum”. 

1 — Tracking workshop, Virtual Furniture, Sam Giambalvo 
2 — Mixed reality lighting assignment, work by Feather Xu
3 — 3D scanning and rigging workshop in Unity, flowers dancing by Hans Jurisch
5 — Motion capture 
6 — Mixed Reality furniture, turning a chair into a button assignment
4 — Custom AR image trigger workshop,  Applique project by Tianlu Tang & Christopher Taylor, Sponsored studio with Google Daydream team 
8 — Intro to Unity tutorial and workshop  
9 — Studios and topics covered in lab 
11 — Shooting student final documentation
7 — Mixed reality safety, Sensewear by Isabel Li, Lucas Thin, Mingshan Wang, & Duoning Zheng
 
12 —  Intro to Unity non playerable characters, work by Isabel Li, Lucas Thin, Mingshan Wang, & Duoning Zheng
15 — Digital Casting exhibition at ArtCenter DTLA featuring student work of emerging 3D scanning techniques
10 — Human Factors in motion capture, using Kinect Azure 
14 — Students prototyping in lab
13 — Learning from computer vision model, COCO
18 — Everything as Input, using headset as camera to turn anything into an interactive input
17 — Hosted livestream, a car that tours around student projects
16 — Mixed reality tactility workshop  
18 — Raspberry Pi integration with Unity
20 — Students working in lab
21 — Virtual Camput course with CalTech in Second Life
23 — Machined Influencers course poster
19 — Highway as gallery space in Second Life
24 — ARTV video exhibition graphics for hosted live stream of student work from Snap Research Creative Challenge studio  
25 — Student prototyping frog tongue in Unity 
22 — Workshop with video grame actors

HOUSE — Jenny Rodenhouse

designer — educator