LIVE Learning Innovation Incubator

Vishesh Kumar loves creating playful experiences where people get to tinker and learn together. He accomplishes this through tangible, digital and XR multiplayer games in museums, classrooms, and beyond; as well as social experiences in makerspaces and physical computing experiences in athletic contexts. Vishesh is excited to help empower communities become critically conscious users and creators of technologies that help them pursue their passions and values in collective and responsible manners. He is looking forward to leveraging the rich networking and multi user abilities of Prof. Ledeczi’s work with NetsBlox with multimodal learning experiences that enrich youth reflection on athletics, health, and different kinds of movement. I see this connecting with Prof. Enyedy’s playful embodied learning experiences, Prof. Biswas’s rich and flexible multimodal tools and pipelines, and Prof. Wise’s complex and layered learning analytics. He especially wants to explore how such embodied playful experiences can uniquely support cross-disciplinary learning (connecting STEM domains with XR games as developed by Dr. Molvig) while aiming to include learners of diverse dis/abilities (extending Dr. Kunda’s work with autistic learners).