Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
& Digital Interface Design
University of the Arts
Art Education & Art Therapy
320 South Broad St.
Philadelphia PA
19102 USA
Email: smilekic@uarts.edu
http://www.uarts.edu/faculty/smilekic
Slavko Milekic holds a medical degree (Belgrade
School of Medicine) as well as Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology
(University of Connecticut). His research interests include digital
design, the psychology of human/computer interaction and building
of WWW-based tools for knowledge transfer. Dr Milekic's innovative,
child-friendly digital environment (KiddyFace) has been already
implemented in a museum setting. He is the co-author and principal
interface designer for the "Theory of Language", a CD ROM-based
text published by the MIT Press. Slavko Milekic has received several
grants from the Lemelson National Program in Innovation, Invention
and Creativity for teaching academic courses in the area of psychology
of human/computer interaction. Dr. Milekic is frequently leading
workshops on the educational uses of technology and human/computer
interface design. He has been engaged as a consultant for the
development of digital tools for art education by a number of
institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dallas
Museum of Art, Please Touch Museum, Phoenix Art Museum and Cleveland
Museum of Art. He currently holds the position of an associate
professor of Cognitive Science & Digital Design at the University
of the Arts.
Slavko will teach [A21]
- Beyond kiosks: multimodal interactions with museum content