Filling the Pipeline: K-12 Outreach in Human Centered Design
Andrew Davidson, University of Washington, United States
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Andrew Davidson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington. He specializes in physical computing, prototyping, HCI, and user-centered design. Davidson also directs the HCDE K–12 Outreach Program. He is a former high school computer science and web design teacher.
Prior to his academic career, Davidson worked in the technology industry for more than twenty years. He had technology and engineering management roles in companies such as Digital Productions (ground-breaking computer graphics for Hollywood entertainment) and Philips Interactive Media (pioneering interactive entertainment platforms).
As an educator, Davidson has taught in and chaired academic programs at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and at the seminal (but now extinct) Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, in Italy.
Davidson holds an MSE in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied computer graphics and perceptual color spaces. He did graduate work in photography at the State University of New York, and received a BA in Mathematics from the University of Rochester.
