Daragh Byrne
Associate Teaching Professor
School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University.
Core faculty for MSCD and PhD CD.
Courtesy appointments in the School of Design and the Human Computer Interaction Institute.
Afflilated facilty with the IDeATe network, Block Center for Technology and Society, and CyLab.
Co-Lead of the TRACES Lab. Co-founder and platform lead for a2ru's Ground Works.
Pronunciation: Dah-rah (silent ‘gh’) ·
Pronouns: he/him. ·
Google Scholar · ResearchGate · ORCID 0000-0001-7193-006X.
Drawing on my background in computing, my teaching and research involves building systems and technologies to ask questions about emerging media and what it means for human experience. In this work, I value human-centered, arts-integrative and multidisciplinary ways of working and work closely with closely with architects, designers and artists. This work focuses on topics including data and human experience, the maker movement, and the internet of things. I also build capacities through innovative pedagogies and platforms that build communities of practices and to enable others work in these ways.
My current NSF-funded research focuses on leveraging the internet of things to support documentation in maker-based learning contexts (#1736189, $464,678.00) and the recently launched Ground Works initiative: a partnership between CMU and the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) to extend this project and deliver a new online platform for arts-integrative scholarship. Previous work has included the MakeSchools Alliance, an effort to catalog Making in higher education, and the NSF-funded XSEAD project, a community platform for arts-integrative practice.
I defended my Ph.D. at Dublin City University in August 2011, holds a M.Res. degree in Design and Evaluation of Advanced Interactive Systems from Lancaster University and a B.Sc. in Computer Applications from DCU. I was previously an Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Arts, Media and Engineering between 2011-2013 before moving to Carnegie Mellon University.
PhD in Multimedia Systems, focus on Digital Storytelling and Experience Capture
Dissertation: Semi-Automatic (Auto)Biographies within Lifelog Collections
Committee: Gareth Jones (advisor); Frank Nack (University of Amsterdam), Monica Ward (DCU)
M.Res (Distinction) in Design and Evaluation of Advanced Interactive Systems
Dissertation: Visualisations for Face-to-Face Collaboration System
Committee: Prof. Tom Ormerod, Prof. Alan Dix
B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Computer Applications
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Associate Teaching Professor, School of Architecture & the Integrated Innovation Institute
Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Architecture & the Integrated Innovation Institute
Intel Special Faculty for Physical Computing, Responsive Environments and Emerging Media, School of Architecture & IDEATe Network
Position funded by the Intel Corporation
Intel Integrative Design Fellow, School of Design & IDEATe Network
Position funded by the Intel Corporation
Research Scientist, School of Design (with Aisling Kelliher & Thanassis Rikakis)
Position funded by the NSF Grant No. 1141631: XSEAD
School of Arts, Media & Engineering, Arizona State University, USA
Assistant Research Professor
Position funded by the NSF Grant No. 1141631: XSEAD
Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL), University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Interaction Designer
Irish Progressive Services International (IPSI) Ltd., Dublin, Ireland
Web Developer and Lead Graphic Designer