ROSS aims to provide an innovative cross-disciplinary perspective on physical-virtual codesign. In the past decade computing has progressively moved beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts, evidenced by growing research trends in tangible interfaces; physical computing; ubiquitous computing; and mobile and embedded computing.

As digital applications move from desktop and office workplace settings, they gain relevance within our everyday lives and spaces: homes, classrooms, public spaces, cultural or historical settings, scientific laboratories and beyond. At the same time, as physical objects and spaces gain new computational behaviors, they become increasingly complex: customizable, reprogrammable, repurposable and interoperable.

Rebola, an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design in the College of Architecture, coordinates ROSS with Ali Mazalek and Kenneth Knoespel of the School of Literature, Communications and Culture in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

Read about current projects and upcoming events at ross.gatech.edu.