Peter Coppin | Visual explanations / Biographical statement






[Updated Aug. 2007]

      

Peter Coppin is researching ways to use graphic illustrations as simple interfaces to otherwise complex ideas. The purpose of this research is to understand the psychological processes that enable the success [or lack of success] of an illustration.

Previously Coppin developed "remote experiences"/virtual presence experiences for the public and rover science teams. Coppin developed this work as Director of the EventScope Project [www.eventscope.org] within the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University [CMU].

Coppin also directed research and development projects at PlatformDigital, LLC. Platform Digital developed remote experience/virtual presence technologies for various NASA and university customers.

Prior to EventScope, Coppin directed the BigSignal Project at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon. BigSignal was one of the first telescience interfaces for educational audiences. 

Prior to BigSignal, Coppin was a nationally and internationally exhibiting electronic media artist and designer.  In this capacity, Coppin produced work shown at venues such as the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz,  Austria; MIR: Art in Space in Bolzono, Italy; the SIGGRAPH Touchware Exhibition in Orlando, Florida and others.

Occasionally Coppin taught art and technology project classes such as “Telepresence Art and Applications,” listed within departments at Carnegie Mellon such as the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the School of Art, the Entertainment Technology Center and the Robotics Institute.