Noura Howell Joins NC State University
Recent alum Noura Howell, Ph.D. at the School of Information, is joining North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications!
Noura Howell’s work explores alternative meaning-making practices with bodily data through material representations and embodied interactions, such as clothing whose fabric changes color in response to the wearer's physical, mental, or emotional excitement. She has presented widely, including at numerous Designing Interactive Systems, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, and Computer-Human Interaction conferences, at which she has previously won a Best Paper award. At BCNM, Noura mentored undergraduates in research, offering them hands-on experience prototyping the implementation of wearables by programming a microcontroller, designing and building circuits, and integrating technology with clothing. She has shown work at the Worth Ryder Gallery’s exhibition “Vision+Light: Processing Perception,” curated by Asma Kazmi, and collaborated with Sahil Mohan and Stan Clark on a pop-up sculpture. Noura is also a member of the BioSENSE lab. Previously she worked as a human-centered designer and engineer in Singapore, Morocco, and China, as well as at the MIT Media Lab, Intel Labs, and Microsoft. You can see more of her work at http://nourahowell.com