Many cities in the Southwestern US have recognized the significance of shade for healthy urban environments and developed tree and shade master plans with city-wide canopy goals to reduce heat vulnerability. The City of Tempe’s Urban Forestry Plan envisions 25 percent tree canopy cover by 2040 with emphasis on “shading sidewalks and paths, cooling people and reducing radiated heat from hard surfaces”.

Advance the knowledge of green infrastructure and low-impact development design process and social-ecological outcomes in the hot and arid environment to be sustainable and resilient

Addressing the issues of the built environment surrounding homeless shelters and spaces in Maricopa County.

In the last 50 years, the rise of computing and artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our society. Futuristic applications such as autonomous vehicles are now driving on Arizona roadways, websites can now recognize and identify faces in an image, and our stock trading is driven by machine learning algorithms.

Sounding Out Spaces explores how we can use digital means to participate directly in our environments, leading to novel and inclusive experiences. This research proposes an approach to incorporating both acoustic and environmental factors within a large-scale multichannel sound installation.

From augmented reality and autonomous vehicles to computational photography and the Internet of Things, applications built on real-time, high-quality visual sensing are becoming central to everyday computing. All of these applications exhibit two competing demands: complex, domain-specific sensing capabilities on one hand and energy efficiency on the other.

Computer vision and machine-learning techniques have revolutionized our world in recent years. However, for robust operation, these techniques need very large amounts of data and annotation. This requirement places real limits on their utility in critical situations where access to data may be limited.

Training the next generation of STEM researchers in visual media experiences from new forms of imaging to augmented and mixed reality requires integrating knowledge from several disciplines and effectively communicating that information to students and trainees.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology applied to images and video is transforming society with broad applications to many social and economic sectors. To develop a citizenry that will participate in this technological revolution, it is essential to develop learning experiences for K-12 learners on the foundations of AI literacy in order to adequately prepare the workforce of the future.

Documenting the acoustic ecology of protected, pristine environments such as National Parks in order to develop new tools to track a measure climate impact from the sound recording database. The project also runs listening workshops and field recording workshops for the public.

This project aimed to develop tools to track climate impact from sound recordings alone.

As the populations of both the United States and Japan grow older, it becomes increasingly critical to understand how cultural discourses about older women (who make up the vast bulk of the older population) affect individuals’ lives, as well as to understand how women work with and around those discourses as they age.

A primary intention of the project was to address issues related to wellbeing and quality of life in populations of older adults.  Particularly in the U.S., older adults often grapple with issues related to social isolation and lack of meaningful exchanges with young people.

Our goal was to better understand the ways in which universities and their internal and external networks can support and advance the careers of artists who have been historically under-represented, particularly in the Southwest in both higher education and cultural institutions.

What does a thriving arts ecology look like in Arizona? What are the conditions necessary to support deep collaboration between artists, culture workers and community leaders that center arts-engaged practice as a means to address wider civic challenges?

The purpose of this project is to explore how to establish compatibility between design and build academia and community theory and practice, and learning and playing while looking at the relationship between culture and play.

To design a long-term partnership with visual artist James Turrell to accelerate completion of Roden Crater and pilot innovative transdisciplinary education at a world-renowned site for human inspiration and learning

Sound Explorations addresses two pressing issues across music learning and teaching: 1) A need for support in expanding the types of musical engagement and learning that occur in K-12 and after school settings and 2) A need to address youth’s unequal access to quality formal and informal music learning across the United States.

The Map(ing) project, established in 2009, was a biennial event that investigates the personal and cultural histories of Native American and Indigenous artists. Each year five artists are invited to work collaboratively with students from ASU’s School of Art.

Career success for arts alumni can take on an assortment of forms, including the success associated with maintaining a desired career in the arts. However, there is little research focusing on the career patterns of arts alumni who stay in the arts after graduation compared to arts alumni who leave.