Joshua Fisher
Associate Professor Of Emerging Media Design And Development
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Fisher is an Associate Professor and practitioner who builds community-centered immersive systems that blend storytelling, spatial computing, and applied AI across education and public spaces. With nine years of focused experience in XR, interactive narratives, and usability research, he designs and prototypes AR/VR experiences and training simulations using A-Frame and Unity with real-time feedback systems. He has led curriculum and lab development at institutions like Ball State, Columbia College Chicago, and Georgia Tech, and directs VR storytelling and usability labs while co-chairing an XR certificate program. His work emphasizes ethical AI and equitable access—he’s developed XR workforce workshops for low-income and small-town communities and integrates qualitative insight into UX practice. Equally at home guiding graduate research or shipping production XR deployments, he pairs storytelling vision with rigorous evaluation to scale tools that serve people and their stories. Based in Chicago, he brings a rare mix of academic research, hands-on engineering, and community-centered impact.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Digital Media, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Digital Media at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster’s Degree Writing and Publishing, Master’s Degree Writing and Publishing at DePaul UniversityB.A. English Political Science, B.A. English Political Science at Illinois State University
French, Korean
Github Skills (10)
react2
stock2
javascript2
webgl1
webar1
threejs1
python1
webxr1
augmented-reality1
aframe1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jadlerfisher/The-Nature-of-Code-Unity-Remix
Mar 2020 - May 2022
Dan Shiffman's Nature of Code Remixed for Unity
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 141 commits in 2 years 2 months
remixedunitynaturenature-of-code
jadlerfisher/InvisibleCampus-old
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:120 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
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