Victoria Petite, a Stevens art and technology major, presents research at annual iDMAa conference

Victoria Petite '09, a Stevens Institute of Technology Art & Technology major, was invited to give a presentation at the annual International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) conference on her Technogenesis Summer Scholars research project, conducted this past summer with Professor H. Quynh Dinh and Professor Ebon Fisher. The conference was hosted in Savannah, Georgia, by the Savannah College of Art and Design, November 5-8. Their research project is titled "Towards a Transmedia Search Engine: A User Study on Perceiving Analogies in Multimedia Data," which was partially funded by the National Science Foundation. The conference theme is "Ideas for the Future," and includes speakers from Schematic's Advanced Interaction Group, Sierra Nevada Corporation, AOL, Autodesk, IBM, and Constellation Communication, among many academics and artists. There will also be Student Showcase Awards and exhibitions of cutting-edge work. For further information, please go to: http://www.idmaa.org/idmaa2008/.

Source: Stevens Institute of Technology