The experimental work going on at RISD recently caught the attention of The International Herald Tribune/The New York Times, which mentioned it in a recent article referring to the spring semester “g-speak studio.” Taught by Digital + Media faculty member Amber Frid-Jimenez and research assistant Kate Hollenbach MFA ‘11 GD, the studio (actually called Embodied Computation: Design for Fashion, Information and the Body) introduced grad students from different disciplines to the world’s first spatial operating environment (SOE), which allows users to do amazing things with computers by merely gesturing with their hands. The g-speak (g is for “gesture”) SOE is being developed by Oblong Industries, which approached RISD about beta-testing it with art and design students and generously donated one of the first systems to the school. You can find out more about the project here.