creative technologist / technical architect
Education
M.Sc in Computer Science, University of Illinois, 2008B.Sc in Computer Science, University of Illinois, 2004
Research @ Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Skills
Work
- Providing technical consultation for experiential design
- Architecture of software systems for digital activation of interactive signage in physical spaces
- Software development of interactive experiences at T-Mobile signature stores link awards
- Architecture of systems allowing interactive activation of physical spaces using sensors and depth cameras
- Software development of interactive components, audiovisual applications, and custom display software
- DES 2017 APEX Award video
- Dr. Scholl's interactive kiosk development link
- Indoor positioning with Bluetooth Low Energy beacons video
- Can You Use Data to Manipulate Reality? video
- Shipping container concept store video
- Augmented Reality soccer game video
- What Happens When You Pair HoloLens With Kinect? video
- Worked with a team of talented engineers and designers to develop interactive media installations in worldwide locations
- Custom user trackers, hand trackers, and camera rigs
- Research and development in Computer Vision and Natural User Interfaces
- Architecture of reusable software frameworks
- East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (EBCPA) video
- Wonder Wall video
- Body Mirror video
- Alex's Place video
- Our Environment video
- Height and Armspan video
- Thesis project Rain Table, an interactive exhibit and an environment for large scale visualization, simulation, and group interaction with geoscience phenomena, such as water drainage, flow of lava, glacier formation, pyroclastic flow, transfer of sediment, and water pollution using the newly built LambdaTable, a high resolution tiled tabletop display with a multi-user tracking system
- Software development and maintenance of Magic Carpet, a cluster based, interactive high resolution image renderer & API
Public Events
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), 2020 linkThe California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts (CEMEC) at Stanford University and Mills College 2019
Presentation & panel, "Designing Experiences with New Data", SF Design Week 2017
Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco Community Music Center, 2013
Conferences
Rain Table, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009Rain Table, Supercomputing 2007
Magic Carpet, Supercomputing 2007
Magic Carpet, iGRID 2005
Publications
Svistula, D. Rain Table: Scalable Architecture for Group Oriented Visualization of Geoscience Phenomena. 2008, Graduate College, University of Illinois. pdfKirkby, K., Morin, P., Svistula, D., Leigh, J., Johnson, A., Currier, R., Campbell, K. Development of a Visualization Rain Table: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Poster at American GeoPhysical Union Fall meeting 2007, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2007.
Leigh, J., Johnson, A., Renambot, L., Sandin, D., DeFanti, T., Brown, M., Jeong, B., Jagodic, R., Krumbholz, C., Svistula, D., Hur, H., Kooima, R., Peterka, T., Ge, J., Falk, C., Emerging from the CAVE: Collaboration in Ultra High Resolution Environments, First International Symposium on Universal Communication, Kyoto, Japan, June 14-15, 2007, pp. 96-99.
Morin, P., Kirkby, K., Campbell, K., Hamilton, P., Schmidt, B., Svistula, D., Leigh, J., Renembot, L., Johnson, A., Flat Earth, Round Earth: Two New Visualization Systems for Formal and Informal Geoscience Education, GSAAbstracts Programs Vol. 38.7, Philadelphia, PA, October 22-25, 2006.