Performamatics: Experiences With Connecting a Computer Science Course to a Design Arts Course

1. Performamatics: Experiences With Connecting a Computer Science Course to a Design Arts Course Jesse M. Heines Jim Jeffers University of Massachusetts Lowell Learning Conference ’08, Chicago, IL, June 5, 2008

2. Computer Science and Computer Engineering listed as probable major among incoming freshmen. Source: HERI at UCLA.

3. Computer Science listed as probable major among incoming freshmen. Source: HERI at UCLA.

4. Shrinking Women’s Share Note that CS is lumped with IS, which tends to have a larger percentage of women. Source: National Center for Education Statistics and The Chronicle of Higher Education52(19):A35.

5. Reality for Non-CS Fields as presented by Eric Roberts, Stanford Univ., at SIGCSE ’08

6. Reality for CS Fields as presented by Eric Roberts, Stanford Univ., at SIGCSE ’08

7. NSF Challenge “Through the CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) program, NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is challenging its partners – colleges, universities and other stakeholders committed to advancing the field of computing and its impact – to transform undergraduate computing education on a national scale, to meet the challenges and opportunities of a world where computing is essential to U.S. leadership and economic competitiveness across all sectors of society.”

8. A collaboration between the UMass Lowell Computer Science, Art, Music, and English departments in the area of exhibition and performance technologies • Supported by the National Science Foundation, Award No. CNS-0722161

9. Performamatics • The common thread is that many tasks, performed by multiple people, must come together on a tight schedule by a specific date to achieve a desired result • Each team member must “perform” his or her task so that it can be integrated into a final product, regardless of whether that member participates visibly in the culminating event

10. eAMP: Extended Art Media Performamatics Jim Jeffers University of Massachusetts Lowell

11. Music Performamatics Jesse Heines University of Massachusetts Lowell

12. Found Instruments Project • Conceived by Prof. Gena Greher, Dept. of Music, Dir. Music Education

13. Step 1: Find Instruments • Chris (CS), Joe (Music), and Sophanna (CS) playing their found instruments

14. Step 2: Devise Notations • Maggieexplaining hernotation forplaying asteam iron

15. Step 2: Devise Notations • Maggie’s notation

16. Step 3: Test Notations • Maggie showing Sophanna how to play her steam iron notation

17. Step 3: Test Notations • Sophanna trying to play the steam iron using Maggie’s notation

18. Step 4: Write Programs • Sophanna’s computer program for writing Maggie’s steam iron notation

19. Step 5: Test Programs • Maggie and Mike trying Sophanna’s program and recommending revisions

20. Mike’s Jacket Notation

21. Chris’s Jacket Program - 1 • Initial screen

22. Chris’s Jacket Program - 2 • Setting the beat and dragging icons

23. Chris’s Jacket Program - 3 • Selecting an icon & positioning a cursor

24. Chris’s Jacket Program - 4 • Deleting an icon - where’s the cursor?

25. Chris’s Jacket Program - 5 • Inserting icons with keyboard shortcuts

26. Chris’s Jacket Program - 6 • Where did the icon get inserted?

27. Eine Kline Jacket Music

28. Our Contact Information • Jesse Heines Dept. of Computer Science Jesse_Heines@uml.edu • Jim Jeffers Dept. of Art James_Jeffers@uml.edu University of Massachusetts Lowell