The Learning Environment Lab in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is home to a multidisciplinary team of researchers studying physical and online environments that support learning experiences. We are exploring four areas: (a) improving online learning experiences through data driven interaction design patterns, (b) increasing learning and decreasing distraction associated with wall sized information displays in classrooms, (c) improving learning experiences in design studio environments, and (d) increasing design agility through design studio pedagogy.
The 2023 Global Design Futures Network Symposium and Workshops are being held at the Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center in Bali, Indonesia November 16-19, 2023. Global Design Futures Network (GDFN) was …
Peter Scupelli is giving a lecture titled "Dexign Thinking: Finding Design Opportunities in Societal Transitions" at the Connections Lecture Series in Doha, Qatar on November 14, 2023 Time: 4:00 to …
Peter Scupelli will be a visiting researcher in design futures methods at the Politecnico di Milano. Peter will also co-teach Design Futures-related methods in the Ephemeral Design course with Professors …
September 1, 2023 1:42 PM
Peter Scupelli will present a paper titled “Teaching to transfer Causal Layered Analysis from Futures Thinking to Design Thinking” at the 2023 IASDR conference held in Milan, Italy October 9-14 …
February 2, 2023 3:03 PM
Peter Scupelli gave the closing keynote lecture titled “Some experiential dexign thinking for alternative metaverses” at the “REFLECTING on the Metaverse through Experiential Futures,” as part of the Design Thinking …
August 5, 2022 4:20 PM
Peter Scupelli will be a visiting professor in design at the Politecnico di Milano. Peter will be co-teaching Design Futures related methods in the Ephemeral Design course with Professors Anna …
October 15, 2021 7:50 PM
Peter Scupelli will present a paper titled "Teaching Designers to Anticipate Future Challenges with Causal Layered Analysis" at the 2021 IASDR conference held in Hong Kong December 5-9 at TThe …
October 15, 2021 8:21 PM
Peter Scupelli is presenting a keynote lecture titled "Futures in Design Education?" at the second International Conference Design Futures held at Tsinghua University. The conference is online on the weekends …
July 29, 2021 11:17 AM
On July 29, 2021, Peter Scupelli gave an invited lecture at the Future Pioneer 未来塑造力·先锋行动 summer program organized by Tsinghua University and OCT Innovation & Research Institute. There are 164 …
July 6, 2020 5:51 PM
Peter Scupelli is presenting a paper titled "Teaching to Find Design Opportunities for Behavior Change Through Causal Layered Analysis" for the Human-Computer Interaction International Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark July …
July 5, 2020 5:40 PM
Peter Scupelli gave a Keynote Lecture at the "Designing the Futures: Methodology, Tools, and Practices" Digital Salon organized by Tsinghua University on July 5, 2020. The lecture was titled "Dexign …
January 18, 2020 9:21 PM
Peter Scupelli is presenting a paper titled "The Faster Ones Don't Always Win: Dexign Futures Thinking for Innovation in Urban Contexts" at the United Nations 1oth World Urban Forum in …
August 27, 2019 7:19 AM
The School of Design's Peter Scupelli will be presenting a paper at the IASDR Conference in Manchester, UK on September 2nd. He will be presenting "Teaching Futures: Trade-offs Between Flipped …
June 6, 2019 2:42 PM
Peter Scupelli is presenting a paper titled "Teaching to Dexign Futures in China: A Vision for a Blended Learning Pedagogy to be Deployed at Scale" at the International Conference The …
June 6, 2019 2:31 PM
Peter Scupelli is leading a team at the “Re-Designing Education to Shape a Better World” symposium in Florence, Italy on June 21-23, 2019. During the 3-day symposium educators and designers …
March 11, 2019 3:25 PM
Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 8:00am to Saturday, March 16, 2019 - 3:30pm The School of Design's Peter Scupelli will be attending training for the Climate Reality Leadership Corps on March 14th. The …
March 11, 2019 3:22 PM
Peter Scupelli gave a talk titled "Teaching to Future - Tradeoffs Between Flipped Classroom and Design Course Pedagogies." at the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing in the College of …
October 21, 2018 12:37 PM
Peter Scupelli taught a workshop for 40 university design educators at Tsinghua University October 21, 2018 as part of the Design 3.0 International Forum held in Beijing, China. The workshop …
October 10, 2018 2:36 PM
Peter Scupelli is presenting a talk at the Design 3.0 Forum in Beijing China on October 19. The forum is organized by Tsinghua University and KAIST University. Design 3.0 Forum aims …
June 1, 2018 5:54 PM
Peter Scupelli delivered a keynote speech titled "Olympic projects as desirable futures" at the "China National Arts Fund Initiation and forum: Training innovative art and tech talents for the 2022 …
June 1, 2018 5:49 PM
Peter Scupelli taught the Design Thinking and Futures Thinking workshop June 7-9, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The workshop was called "Using the Flipped Classroom to Teach Design Thinking …
January 24, 2018 3:52 PM
Kristin Hughes and Peter Scupelli are keynoting for the US2020 STEM Collaboratory workshop Thursday, February 1, 2018. About the US2020 Challenge The US2020 STEM Challenge is a competition for communities that …
September 22, 2017 7:02 PM
Thursday, October 5, 2017 - 8:00am to Friday, October 6, 2017 - 5:00pm Peter Scupelli will be at the Summit for Design Research at the IIT Instititute of Design on …
September 22, 2017 2:49 PM
Peter Scupelli to present a paper titled "Opening a Design Education Pipeline from University to K-12 and Back" at the IASDR 2017 conference in Cincinnati. (more…)
July 20, 2017 5:44 PM
Futures of Education Charrette Peter Scupelli is joining two dozen leading thinkers, tech visionaries, librarians and change-agents to help imagine a new universe of collaborative systems that could transform the …
May 24, 2017 5:45 PM
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center recently approved the lab's request for supercomputing resources, which will be used for the lab's research on Creative Workplace Alchemies: Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning to …
March 14, 2017 11:09 AM
Paul Inventado will present a paper at the 22nd European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP) 2017 in Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany. EuroPLoP is the premier European conference on patterns and …
March 14, 2017 10:53 AM
Peter Scupelli will present a paper at the Viking Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (Viking PLoP) 2017 in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The conference has long roots going back to 2002 when …
January 25, 2017 3:26 PM
Peter Scupelli gave a talk on "How might design educators teach to Transition Design?" at The Glasgow School of Art's 2nd Annual Winter School Design Summit in Scotland. The theme of …
August 16, 2016 12:20 PM
Peter Scupelli and Paul Inventado presented posters at the first Teaching and Learning Summit for faculty and graduate students hosted by Carnegie Mellon University’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational …
August 16, 2016 10:45 AM
Peter Scupelli gave a talk on the opening plenary panel 2016 a2ru National Conference at the University of Colorado in Denver. The theme of this year's conference was ArtsRx: Creative Venture, Wellbeing & the New …
June 22, 2016 6:16 PM
Peter Scupelli wrote a chapter on"Creative Workplace Alchemies: Individual Workspaces and Collaboration Hotspots" in the newly published book, Architecture and Interaction.
June 22, 2016 11:34 AM
Peter Scupelli and Paul Inventado presented papers at The 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2016) in Raleigh, North Carolina. 1. Inventado, P.S., Scupelli, P., Van Inwegen, E., Ostrow, K. Heffernan, …
June 22, 2016 2:00 AM
Peter Scupelli presented a paper he co-authored with Judy Brooks and Arnold Wasserman on "Making Dexign Futures learning happen: A case study for a flipped, Open-Learning Initiative course" at the 2016 …
June 22, 2016 1:30 AM
Peter Scupelli presented papers at the 50th Anniversary Design+Research+Society Conference 2016, hosted by the University of Brighton in the UK. The papers featured were: 1) Scupelli & Hanington: Design Studio Desk and …
June 22, 2016 1:00 AM
Peter Scupelli and Paul Inventado presented their paper, "Media-type Selection Design Patterns for Problem-solving Content and Support in Online Learning Systems" at the 21st European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP) …
May 28, 2016 2:16 PM
Paul Inventado co-authored a book chapter "Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: Potentials and Possibilities for Online Education" with Ryan Baker in Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning: Foundations and Applications.
April 16, 2016 6:04 PM
Peter Scupelli gave a talk on "Improving Online Learning Experiences with Big Data, Design Patterns, Randomized Control Trials, and Online Repositories" as a guest lecturer at the HAN University of Applied Sciences …
April 11, 2016 8:10 AM
Peter Scupelli and Paul Inventado presented "Design Patterns for Math Problems and Learning Support in Online Learning Systems" at the Viking Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (Viking PLoP) 2016 …
March 20, 2016 5:33 PM
Peter Scupelli gave a talk on "Post-HCI worlds: Exploring design spaces with environments, values, narratives, and time horizons." as a guest lecturer at the PSI Workshop 2016 at Virginia Tech University's Center …
February 29, 2016 5:45 PM
Peter Scupelli and Austin Lee gave a talk on "Teaching Interaction Design in Physical, Digital, and Hybrid Environments" at the Interaction Design Education Summit 2016, interaction16 (IXDA) Conference in Helsinki, Finland. Summary: Over …
October 27, 2015 3:36 PM
Paul Inventado and Peter Scupelli presented "A Data-driven Methodology for Producing Online Learning System Design Patterns" at the 22nd Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Abstract: Online learning …
October 27, 2015 3:32 PM
Paul Inventado and Peter Scupelli led a focus group discussion on “Developing an open, collaborative design pattern repository” at the 22nd Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Abstract: …
October 16, 2015 8:29 PM
Paul Inventado and Peter Scupelli presented “Addressing MOOCs’ Sustainability Issues Using Data-driven Design Pattern Production” at Learning with MOOCs II – 2015 in Teachers' College Columbia University, New York. Abstract: Despite …
August 23, 2015 9:00 AM
Peter Scupelli presented a paper he co-authored with Judy Brooks and Arnold Wasserman on "Learn!2050 and Dexign Futures: Lessons Learned Teaching Design Futures" at the Industrial Designers Society of America …
July 31, 2015 6:04 PM
Paul Inventado virtually presented “Promoting Online Learning System Design Quality: Utilizing Design Patterns Produced by Data-driven Approaches” at the Learning Analytics workshop in Prague, Czech Republic. Abstract: Many students benefit from …
July 11, 2015 3:54 PM
Peter Scupelli and Paul Inventado presented "Data-Driven Design Pattern Production: A Case Study on the ASSISTments Online Learning System" in a writing workshop 20th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP) 2015 in …
June 15, 2015 7:56 PM
Paul Salvador Inventado and Peter Scupelli's paper entitled "Towards an open, collaborative repository for online learning system design patterns" has been published in eLearning Papers #42. Abstract: Design patterns are …
November 14, 2014 9:00 AM
Studio-based design education is changing to include multidisciplinary design teams, geographically distributed teams, information technology, and new work styles. In this research, we describe the graduate design studio redesign in …
October 24, 2014 9:00 AM
Studio-based design education is changing to include multidisciplinary design teams, geographically distributed teams, information technology, and new work styles. In this talk, I describe the graduate design studio redesign in …
July 16, 2014 7:23 PM
Paul Inventado co-authored a book chapter "Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics" in Learning Analytics: From Research to Practice.
July 8, 2014 5:05 PM
Peter Scupelli and Paul Inventado facilitated the Data-driven Design Pattern Development (3DPD) Workshop which was held in conjunction with the 21st Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLOP 2014). Abstract: …
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