Spatial AI & UX: Computing Beyond Screens

Join us for coffee with a demonstration and conversation around spatial computing.

Join Spatial Pixel and the School of Visual Arts Interaction Design Program (ixD) for a lecture on Natural Interactions & Multimodal AI.

presented by: spatialpixel https://spatialpixel.com
Speakers: William Martin & Violet Whitney

Spatial Pixel is building a new kind of spatial computing – one for your space, not for your face.

Spatial Computing is often seen as an interaction that occurs on an individual's screen, such as with smart glasses or an augmented reality device. However, some of the most spatial interactions leverage mixed reality and spatial awareness in the physical world, enabling more collective, social, and embodied interactions in our environments.

About the Speakers!

Violet Whitney co-leads Spatial Pixel, an AI research and design studio building spatial computing.

She teaches tangible and spatial computing courses at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Michigan. At Columbia, she helped launch a new master’s program called Computational Design Practices. Outside of academia she co-leads a group called Architechie, a meetup network for urban tech.

Violet has been a Director of Product and an Associate Director of Design at Sidewalk Labs, the Google initiative focused on building future cities. There she started Delve, an AI product for neighborhood development (now part of Google Maps), developed computer vision applications for pedestrian tracking, and worked with teams on leveraging LLMs for urban-scale problems.

William Martin co-leads Spatial Pixel, an AI research and design studio focused on empowering people with digital and spatial agency.

He serves as director of AI at Consensys, a blockchain/web3 tech company known for the MetaMask crypto wallet, and as adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University. Trained as an architect, he is currently researching "spatial AI," applying generative artificial intelligence to spatial reasoning, design, and experience.

He was lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture, assistant professor at the New York Institute of Technology, and instructor at General Assembly. He also served as head of product at Floored, a tech startup that built interactive VR marketing tools for real estate, engineer at data science startup Ufora, product lead at Pivotal Software and VMware, and director of product management at Recycle Track Systems.