Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Earl Woodruff

Professor and Associate Chair

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development (APHD)
  • Curriculum,Teaching and Learning
• Centres
  • Institute of Child Study (ICS)
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Cognition and learning
• E-Learning
• Emotions and learning
• Emotions and technology
• Gamification
• M-Learning
• Mobile computing
• Play and technology
• Science testing

Office: 416-934-4511
Home: 416-848-1748
Email: earl.woodruff@utoronto.ca
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Gerald Penn

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Computer Science
• Centres
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Archaeological decipherment
• Artificial intelligence
• Automatic text processing
• Automatic translation of languages
• Privacy-preserving technology
• Speech/Voice processing
• Writing systems

Office: 416-978-7390
Languages: German
Email: gerald.penn@utoronto.ca
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Kelly Lyons

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Computer Science
• Centres
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Collaborative systems
• Information systems
• Service science
• Social media
• Women in technology

Office: 416-946-3839
Mobile: 416-518-3937
Website
Email: kelly.lyons@utoronto.ca
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Leslie Chan

Senior Lecturer

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)
• Centres
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Access to knowledge
• Bridging digital and knowledge divide
• Electronic publishing
• Impact of new media on social practices
• Learning with new technologies
• Open access to scholarly literature
• teaching

Office: 416-287-7511
Mobile: 416-414-0288
Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin
Website
Email: chan@utsc.utoronto.ca
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Louis Kaplan

Professor, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga

Professor, Graduate Department of History of Art

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Mississauga
• Centres
  • Centre for Jewish Studies
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Contemporary Jewish art
• History and theory of photography
• Photography and community
• Spirit photography
• Visual culture and identity

Office: 905-569-4646
Mobile: 647-296-0036
Languages: German
Website
Email: louis.kaplan@utoronto.ca
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Ravin Balakrishnan

Chair, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Computer Science
• Centres
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Computer supported collaborative tools
• Human-computer interaction
• Interactive computer graphics
• Interactive technology
• User interfaces

Office: 416-978-5359
Email: ravin@cs.toronto.edu
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