From Kauaʻi, now working from Oʻahu. I have a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (c/o 2024). My research interests are Human Computer interaction, Interactive Media, Virtual/ Augmented Reality Dev, Learning Technologies, Games, and Animation.
Director of:
the Center for Indigenous Innovation in Data and Emerging Technologies (CII-DET) at the University of Hawaiʻi Office of Indigenous Innovation (OIKI).
Create(x) Lab @ the Academy of Creative Media @ the University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu.
See more @: uhcreatexlab.com
Featured Projects
Indigenous Data Hub Project
Makawalu Visualization Env.
Kilo Hōkū
Wao Kiʻi
Publications
Kobayashi D, Theriot R, Kawano N, Lam J, Wu E, Seto-Mook T, Gonzalez A, Uchida K, Guagliardo A, Noe K, Leigh J. The Design and Development of the Destiny-Class CyberCANOE Hybrid Reality Environment. Electronics. 2021; 10(4):513. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10040513
Achilles Beros, Monique Chyba, Kari Noe. Co-evolving cellular automata for morphogenesis. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems – B, 2019, 24(5): 2053-2071. doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2019084
Nurit Kirshenbaum, Dylan Kobayashi, Ryan Theriot, Kari Noe, and Jason Leigh. 2018. Flying a Broom in a Hybrid Reality Room: Eliciting Physical Interaction. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 189. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3267782.3274683
Karjala, P., Lodes, D., Noe, K., Sikkink, A. (2018) “Kilo Hōkū – Experiencing Hawaiian, Non-Instrument Open Ocean Navigation through Virtual Reality” Presence Special Issue on Virtual and Augmented Reality in Culture and Heritage.
Available at: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/pres_a_00301Noe, Kari (2018) “Virtual Reality and Visualization in Research and Cultural Preservation, Mānoa Horizons: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/horizons/vol3/iss1/2
Conferences
Noe, K. (2021) “Wao Kiʻi, A Mixed Reality Exhibition Space for Pacific Island Cultural Heritage Visualization.” SIGGRAPH 2021, Diversity Equity & Inclusion Summit, Online Conference.
Due, M., Bushnell, J., Noe, K., Falck, E., Taylor, A. (2021) “Reframing Education Through Indigenous Lenses.” Games for Change Festival 2021, Online Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrnrWvj1BeU
P. Karjala, D. Lodes, A. Sikkink, K. Noe and J. Leigh, “Learning Hawaiian Open Ocean Navigation Methods with Kilo Hōkū VR,” 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2021, pp. 444-445, doi:10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00104.
Karjala, P., Noe, K., Sikkink, A., Lodes, D. (2020) “A Demonstration of Kilo Hōkū-Implementing Hawaiian Star
Navigation Methods in Virtual Reality” CHI 2020 Interactivity/Demos, Honolulu Hawai’i. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3334480.3383156(CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19) Noe, K., & Ching, J. (2020) “Digitizing Detours, A Virtual Reality Archive of Decolonial Stories.” NAISA 2020, Toronto Canada.
(CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19, To be Rescheduled) Noe, K., Tangiyv, D.M., Nikatani, K., Palanca, J. T. (2020) “A Virtual Language Companion: Vocabulary Acquisition Through Spaced Repetition in Virtual Reality.” CALICO, Seattle Washington
Noe, K., Corbett, J., Laiti, O., & Marino, M. (2019, May). Ethnoprogramming: Decolonizing Computation through Indigenous Languages. 60-minute panel of talks at the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Noe, K., Glow, B., & Sikoak, J. (2019, June). Waterways: Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art. 20-minute Kilo Hōkū Presentation followed by a 30-minute artist roundtable discussion at the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX), Concordia University, Canada.
Brown, M., LaPensée, B., Noe, K., Noe, K., & Brown, T. (2019, July). Indigital Play: Indigenous Video Games and VR Room. Helped showcase various computer and virtual reality video games and experiences created by indigenous developers at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Conference, University of Waikato, New Zealand.