emerging media and technology
Designing for the User: New Degree Is at the Heart of Growing Tech Field
A bachelor’s degree in user experience design is the newest offering in Kent State University’s College of Communication and Information, aimed at training graduates for one of the fastest-growing career fields.
Augmented Reality in Children's Literature
Students explored new methods of storytelling in during this collaboration between the School of Emerging Media and Technology, Design Innovation and the Reinberger Library Center, creating an augmented reality experience based around children's picturebooks.
Digital Custom Cake Visualizer
A team of students in EMAT"s Interdisciplinary Projects, the senior capstone course, worked on a digital custom cake visualizer for LaLa Custom Cakes in Lakewood. In Interdisciplinary Projects, students work with a community or campus client to solve a technology challenge.
Depthkit 3D Live Action Modeling
For their EMAT Interdisciplinary Projects course, a team of students Kyle Bartlett, Collin Lewis, Kaitlyn Perkovic and project leader John Comi worked with associate professor of dance Marc Rockland to render dancers as 3D models by using a technology called Depthkit. The final video was shown as part of a end of semester dance recital.
EMAT Faculty Wins Distinguished Teaching Award
Richard Ferdig helped create the digital sciences program, which is now the School of Emerging Media and Technology. Six years after the program was started, a graduating doctoral student gave Ferdig a hug and warm greetings. It was at that moment he realized he had that student as a freshman in their first emerging media class.
Pairing Design and Data for Better Healthcare Systems
Hands-on experiences while studying healthcare design and emerging technology at Kent State created a unique, in-demand career path for 2023 graduate Hamid Estejab.
Combined Degree Program Creates Specialized Educational Experience
Kent State University’s combined bachelor’s/master’s degree program allows students to count nine credits of graduate level courses to their undergraduate degrees, providing a faster path to an advanced degree. Cassie Milicia chose this route for her degrees in Emerging Media and Technology.
Students Find Inspiration at Women in Tech Conference
Catherine Smith, a professor in the School of Emerging Media and Technology and School of Information, said she remembers the days of male-dominated tech conferences with so little space for women, even the restrooms were exclusive to men.
Applications Open for New Emerging Media and Technology Graduate Program at Kent State
To meet technology needs of the world, Kent State is now accepting applications for its new graduate program in Emerging Media and Technology (EMAT), launching Fall 2022.
Media and Esports: One Kent State Student's Journey
Esports has transformed online gaming into a spectator sport — and a 2021 report projects the industry will be worth $3.5 billion by 2025.