Recent UArizona Course Offerings:
INFO 696E Seminar: Societal Grand Challenges – Transformative Design and Sociotechnical Innovation
This seminar will explore the identification and potential resolution of societal grand challenges. Topics will include the framing of wicked and superwicked problems as well as progress toward UN Sustainable Development Goals. Transformative design’s iterative collaboration and transdisciplinary potential will be applied to a series of project-based activities ranging in scale from personal to global. Evolving strategies to foster sociotechnical innovation ranging from collaborative participatory design, creativity support tools and collective intelligence to Network Improvement Communities and co-evolution of knowledge frameworks will be advanced to leverage emerging exponential technologies in ways that foster human flourishing for all.
ISTA 416 / INFO 516: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction
The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) encompasses the design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive computing systems. This course will provide a survey of HCI theory and practice. The course will address the presentation of information and the design of interaction from a human-centered perspective, looking at relevant perceptive, cognitive, social, and emotional factors. Topics will include theories of interaction, practical design guidelines, technological concerns, and case studies. As a central theme, the course will promote the processes of usability engineering, introducing the concepts of participatory design, requirements analysis, rapid prototyping, iterative development, and user evaluation. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluation strategies will be discussed.
Mentoring Highlights:
Prof. Burleson served as an inaugural Data Science Fellows Faculty Mentor for Dr. Gustavo Almieda.
At UArizona, Prof. Burleson recently mentored undergraduates Madeleine Brown and Riley Zuckert.
Fellow, Burleson worked with Prof. Mark Henderson and his Global Resolve to advance humanitarian engineering curriculum and sociotechnical innovation to societal grand challenges.
Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP):
Prof. Prof. Burleson served as the Founding Executive Director, for UA Vertically Integrated Projects and helped found VIP at NYU. He currently serves as faculty lead for multiple VIP teams and mentors capstone and Honors College students. Read More
Computer Research Association:
The CCC-NSF-CRA A Roadmap for Education Technology (2010) report articulates a comprehensive vision of education technology towards 2030 and identifies specifically what the education community and policymakers might do to realize that vision. Read More
MIT TerraScope:
At MIT, working with Professor Kip Hodges, Prof. Burleson contributed to MIT’s TerraScope program. Read More
SETI Institute:
As a Curriculum Developer at the SETI Institute, Prof. Burleson received the NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award for work with SETI Education developing project-based K-12 STEM curriculum titles, such as Voyages Through Time and Life in the Universe.