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Mark Baskinger is Director of the First Year program and Associate Professor in the School of Design who teaches courses in interaction and industrial design. His interests include exploring new paradigms for interactive objects and interpretive environments, and methodologies of design drawing and visual thinking to promote collaboration. Baskinger is currently a fellow in The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, a laboratory for atypical, anti-disciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersections of arts, science, technology and culture. In addition, he is an affiliate faculty member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon, serves as a researcher with the Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center through Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, is an affiliate faculty member of the Master of Tangible Interaction Design program through Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture (mTID), and has collaborated with the d.search-labs at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands (TU/e). Mark is co-author of Drawing Ideas®: a hand-generated approach for better design published by Watson-Guptill, a division of Random House. An international speaker and workshop leader, he also conducts Drawing Ideas® workshops in conference and business contexts where he makes design drawing methods and visual thinking techniques accessible to a broader audience and demonstrates strategies for using sketching to foster collaboration in design processes. He served as the co-chair for the design community of CHI2009 in Boston and is a co-chair for the studios and workshops track for TEI 2016: 10th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction. He has published papers and articles on the language of designed artifacts, inclusive/universal design, visual “noise” in product design, tangible interaction, UX, and methodologies of visualization. Mark is also a contributing author for UX Magazine. His work has been featured in design publications and international magazines, and has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), I-Space Gallery (Chicago), Krannert Museum (Illinois), and the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery (Pittsburgh). His work is also included in the permanent art collection of the University of Illinois and his sculptural work is available through the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh. He has won numerous design awards from ID Magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDEA) and personally holds multiple product patents. He was also the 2010 recipient of the Henry Hornbostel Teaching Award at Carnegie Mellon. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Baskinger was creative director at Corchia Woliner Rhoda in New York City, and was the lead designer at the Wildlife Conservation Society / Central Park Zoo - Exhibits and Graphic Arts Dept. He also held a visiting faculty position in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois (UIUC). External to his appointment at CMU, he co-directs The Letter Thirteen Design Agency, an interdisciplinary design firm. Baskinger holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois (UIUC).