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Dr. Jonathan Bohlmann is a professor of marketing and innovation in the Department of Business Management at North Carolina State University. He researches innovation adoption, and has co-taught the pioneering, multidisciplinary Product Innovation Lab for years. We spoke about how he turned from aerospace engineering to management, and the growing importance of UX in product design. Jon is on twitter at @jbohlmann.

Dr. Anne McLaughlin is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University. She is a cognitive psychologist focused on learning, the elderly, and applications of games. We spoke about her pivot from journalism to psychology, and a trial early in her career than put her in the national limelight.

We preview our meetup with Josef Spjut, research scientist at NVIDIA. At his September 7th meetup, Josef will present a few early prototype applications designed to reduce distraction, including AR for wayfinding, augmented online shopping, and ideas for annotating the world around us.  In this teaser, Josef talks about his early training in architecture and computer graphics, and his work on realizing real-time ray tracing. Josef is on Twitter at @josefspjut.

Dr. Derek Ham is an assistant professor in the College of Design at North Carolina State University. His VR project "I Am A Man" won an Oculus Launch Pad award. In this podcast, he discusses how virtual reality and augmented reality technology can expand the possibilities of interaction design.

Dr. Kenya Oduor is the founder of the consulting firm Lean Geeks and an Adjunct Professor at North Carolina State. She is a user-centered solution architect and people leader with past experience at LexisNexis and IBM. In this podcast, she discusses trust in technology, as well as the importance of user experience.  She also explains the value and challenges of multi-disciplinary teams.  Kenya is on Twitter at @koduor.

In this bootleg recording of our December 8th meetup, Jay Dawkins, the CEO of PublicInput.com and CityZen, spoke about how technology is shaping participatory democracy. Jay Dawkins is a transportation engineer turned civic tech entrepreneur. PublicInput.com helps residents participate in shaping their cities, where things are still getting done. CityZen helps public agencies use social media and news websites to engage more residents online. Jay is on Twitter at @dawkinsjay.