Visualizing the Future of Augmented Reality Environmental Communication

Dr. Kailan Sindelar’s research explores how Augmented Reality (AR) educational designs and popular educational environmental communication apps like Wildeverse and Rewild misrepresent wildlife and their interactions. In this talk, she will discuss how these applications make little use of the technology and mostly rely on remediating other forms media, such as photography, chat logs, and documentaries.  Finally, she will share strategies for better using affordances of AR to engage with and educate users.

Dr. Kailan Sindelar is an Assistant Professor of Technical Writing at the University of North Florida. She completed her Masters of English with a Concentration in Technical Writing from UNC Charlotte and her Ph.D. in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design from Clemson University. Her research goals are to better understand and leverage environmental communication in emerging technologies to inform future designs through critical analysis, participant observation, and interviews.

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