Gerhard Fischer

Gerhard Fischer (http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/) is a Professor of Computer Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the Director of the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a member of the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Academy. His research is focused on: social creativity; design; meta-design; new conceptual frameworks and new media for learning, working, and collaboration; human-computer interaction; cognitive science; distributed intelligence; domain-oriented design environments; and universal design (assistive technologies). Gerhard has been involved in creativity research for more than a decade. His colleagues and he have developed several socio-technical environments supporting creativity and they have published numerous papers about their research.

Recently, he co-organized (with Ben Shneiderman) a NSF Workshop on "Creativity Support Tools" (June 2005; http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CST/); another NSF workshop on "Synergies Between Creativity and Information Technology, Science, Engineering, and Design: Defining a Research Emphasis" (November 2006; http://l3dswiki.cs.colorado.edu:3232/CreativIT/10) and served as the Program Chair of the 6th Creativity & Cognition Conference (June 2007; http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/).