I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park with an affiliate appointment in the College of Information Studies. I am also a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL), the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), and the founder of the new HCIL Hackerspace and HCIL research lablet: the Makeability Lab. Research in the Makeability Lab is funded, in part, by a Google Faculty Research Award, a 3M Faculty Award, Nokia, the NSF, and the Department of Defense's Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine Research Program.