Projects concluded
- HYPE: an integrated knowledge management environment, for DaimlerChrysler. Since January 2001
- Anticipatory Systems. Ongoing research pursued at Stanford University (March-June 1999, summer 2000) and California Institute of Technology (summer 2000)
- Methods to optimize visualization, Research Coalition, Ministry for Science and Education NRW. 1998-20
- City Guide to Wuppertal, in collaboration with Rundschau Publishing. 2001
- Anticipation. Investigation of the main topics in Anticipation for an interactive multimedia presentation book, DVD, Website (www.anticipation.info). 1999-2001
- VISION 2010. Research project on mobility in the context of an information society. DaimlerChrysler AG, Research Center, Berlin. January-November 2000
- Family Building (Wipperfuerth, Germany). A multimedia knowledge transfer project. Since 2000
- From WAP to UMTS. Begun in Spring Semester 2000 (results posted on the Web)
- MP3: New Applications. Begun in Spring Semester 2000 (results posted on the Web)
- Anticipation applied aspects: trust, new computer architectures, with Norman Group, Solingen, Germany. 1998-2000
- The Civilization of Illiteracy, 1980-1996
- Bosnia-Herzegovina: a multimedia CD-ROM project to raise awareness of the values of this historically multicultural country, 1995-1996
- Image preservation and access (El Lissitzky, Gaudi, Frank Stella). 1990-1994
- Docent and MetaDocent a Hypercard tool for creating hyperstacks, for search of text and visual databases, and for authoring (at Belser Knowledge Services, in collaboration with Incredible Interactivity). December, 1990-1992. After prototype in Hypercard was finished, porting to MS-DOS and UNIX was pursued
Author and principal investigator, Visualization, 1985-1989
- Creating Effective Advertising. Book contracted by Consultant Press, New York, 1990-1994
- Understanding Prehistoric Images in the Posthistoric Age: A cognitive project, 1991-1994
- Conversion of hypercard to CD-ROM (at Belser Knowledge Services, in collaboration with Museum Graphics), 1990-1992
- High-definition storage systems for library preservation and retrieval (at Belser Knowledge Services, in collaboration with REBO and SONY), 1989-1992
- Author and principal investigator Models of the Mind, Ludwig Maximilan University, Munich, Germany,
1987-1991
- ARKETEK computer- based modular design and learning environment. Finalist for the international competition Design the Future, Tokyo, Japan. November-December 1990
- Multi-media platforms for instruction, Art & Design Division, Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, January-June 1990
- Author and principal investigator, Design Machine, Ohio State University. 1986-1989
- Author and principal investigator, The Intelligence of the Photographic Eye, Ohio State University, 1987-1988
- Author and principal investigator, Artists and Computers-the Synergy of Change, Ohio State University,
1985-1988.
- Author and co-investigator, Graphics for the Supercomputer, Ohio State University, 1985-1988
- Co-author (with Betty Collings), Computer Graphics/Sculptural Geometry. The Artists Organization, Columbus, OH, 1987-1988
- Author and principal investigator, Computers in Art and Design Education, Rhode Island School of Design, 1983-1984
- Author and co-investigator, Iconic interface, Apple Computer, Inc., 1982
- Author and co-investigator, The Semiotics of the Visual, Rhode Island School of Design and Semiotic Society of America, 1981-1982
- Author and principal investigator, Sign and Value, Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1980-1981
- Author and principal investigator, The Semiotics of the Energy Crisis, Kodikas/Code and RWE, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1979-1980
- Author and co-investigator, Semiotics of Advertisement. University of Essen, Germany, 1979-1980
- Author and principal investigator, The Semiotics of Computer-Aided Human Activity, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1984
- Author and co-investigator: Teletext/Videotexfrom Alpha-Mosaic to Alpha-Geometric, Design Implications, Colony Communications, Providence, RI, 1982-1985
- Author and co-investigator, The visual metaphor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1981
- Author and principal investigator, Aesthetics of computer graphics, AAIF Research Grant, 1979-1982