Diane Gromala

Diane Gromala (born 24 February 1960) is a Canada Research Chair [1] and a Professor in the Simon Fraser University School of Interactive Arts and Technology.[2] Her research works at the confluence of computer science, media art and design, and has focused on the cultural, visceral, and embodied implications of digital technologies, particularly in the realm of chronic pain.[3][4]

Diane Gromala
Gromala in 2011
EducationUniversity of Michigan, Yale University, Plymouth University
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science - HCI, Virtual Reality, Health Research, Design
InstitutionsSchool of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University

Education

Gromala received her bachelor's degree (BFA) in Design & Photography from the University of Michigan in 1982, her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from Yale University in 1990, and her PhD in Human Computer Interaction from Plymouth University in 2007.[2]

Career

From 1982-1990, Gromala worked in industry as art director for MacWorld and Apple Computer. Gromala was one of the first artists to work with immersive virtual reality (VR), beginning with Dancing with the Virtual Dervish.[5] Co-created with choreographer Yacov Sharir in 1990 at the Banff Centre for the Arts' Art & Virtual Environments residency, this piece has been exhibited worldwide from 1993-2004. Gromala subsequently designed immersive VR for stress-reduction, anxiety-reduction, and pain distraction during chemotherapy at Georgia Tech. Gromala's work has been used in over 20 hospitals and clinics.

Diane Gromala gives TEDx talk: Curative Powers of Wet, Raw Beauty

Gromala is the Founding Director of the Chronic Pain Research Institute, an interdisciplinary team of artists, designers, computer scientists, neuroscientists, and medical doctors investigating how new technologies—ranging from virtual reality and visualization to social media—may be used as a technological form of analgesia and pain management.[6] With Jay Bolter, Gromala is the co-author of Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency.[7] This book was based on her experience as the Art Gallery Chair for SIGGRAPH 2000, which had the greatest number of interactive artworks in its history. Her work is widely published in the domains of Computer Science, Interactive Art and Interaction Design. Her pioneering virtual reality work has been featured on the BBC, CNN, the Discovery Channel, and the New York Times.

Gromala was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin; the University of Washington, where she headed the New Media Research Lab and was a member of the Human Interface Technology Lab (HITLab); and at graduate programme for Information Design at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication and Culture (LCC), and a member of the renowned GVU (Graphics, Visualization & Usability) Center. She is currently a professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada.[8]

Awards

In 2017, Gromala has awarded the Grand Prize at Stanford University’s Brainstorm VR/AR Innovation Lab competition, along with colleagues Faranak Farzan and Sylvain Moreno.[9]

Selected publications
  • Bolter, Jay; Gromala, Diane (2003). Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262025454.
  • Cole, Amelia W.; Quesnel, Denise T.; Pekçetin, Serkan; Gromala, Diane; O'Brien, Heather; Antle, Alissa N.; Riecke, Bernhard E. (2017). Integrating Affective Responses and Gamification into Early Reading Acquisition Software Applications. Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 73–85. doi:10.1145/3130859.3131433. ISBN 978-1-4503-5111-9.

References
  1. "Diane Gromala, CRC". Canada Research Chairs. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  2. Diane Gromala. "Faculty Website". Siat.sfu.ca. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  3. Barry Shell. "Virtual reality helps pain victims". Simon Fraser University. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  4. SFU News. "Dr. Diane Gromala - Beyond Pain". Youtube. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  5. SFU News. "Dr. Diane Gromala - Beyond Pain". Youtube. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  6. Chronic Pain Research Institute
  7. Bolter, Jay David; Gromala, Diane (2003). "Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency". Book. MIT Press. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  8. Gerda Breuer and Julia Meer., ed. (2012). Women in Graphic Design. Berlin: Jovis. pp. 461, 463. ISBN 9783868591538.
  9. "Research team lands "best pitch" at Stanford's VR Brainstorm Lab - SFU News - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2018-09-22.

Further reading
  • Gerda Breuer and Julia Meer., ed. (2012). Women in Graphic Design. Berlin: Jovis. pp. 461, 463. ISBN 9783868591538.
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