About Kurt
I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. My advisor is Prof. Amy Bruckman.
I do research and design at the intersection of social computing, creativity, and entertainment. My dissertation work, which examines the role of leaders in online creative collaboration, is supported by a CreativeIT grant from the National Science Foundation.
I’ve been working with online entertainment communities for almost a decade. From 2001 to 2007, I worked at FanFilms.com, one of the earliest online hosts of fan-created movies. In 2009, I interned at Newgrounds.com, the Web’s oldest and largest online community of Flash animation enthusiasts. This summer, I’m doing user experience research as an intern at YouTube (Google). I’ve also interned in the Social Computing Groups at Microsoft Research (in 2008) and IBM Research (in 2007).
Affiliations at Georgia Tech
- GVU Center
- ELC Lab
- Adaptive Digital Media Lab
- Human-Centered Computing program
- Web Science initiative
Conferences I’m Attending
- July 25–29, 2010 · SIGGRAPH 2010, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Nov. 7–10, 2010 · GROUP 2010, Sanibel Island, Fla.