Arceneaux’s research focuses on discovering Black people omitted from the graphic design history canon. She’s also interested in the visual representation of Black people in the media and popular culture, primarily through the lens of stereotypes.
Author
Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design, from the 19th through the 21st Century
Her essay “A Black Renaissance Woman: Louise E. Jefferson” is a part of a collection of essays in the book Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History, which releases in October of 2021 by Princeton Architectural Press.
Armstrong explores how machine learning might be leveraged through interface design to support decision making, lower barriers to access, and grant agency to users.
Recent collaborations: SAS, Redhat, IBM, Sealed Air, WebAssign, Advance Auto Parts The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences
Edited 1, 10, 100 Years: Form, Typography, and Interaction at Parsons, a forthcoming book on the history of the Parsons School of Design’s Communication Design program.
Launched readings.design, a free online library of design texts.
His work and writing has been featured in Eye Magazine, Architectural Digest, Curbed, The Architect’s Newspaper, and Design Observer.
Design pedagogy and curriculum, especially within online learning environments
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Multidimensional (2D, 3D, 4D) interface strategies for visualizing multivariate data, including the visual translation of scientific research for non-specialists
Co-Principal Investigator on Virtual Reality to Improve Students’ Understanding of the Extremes of Scale in STEM, funded by the National Science Foundation, with PI Karen Chen and Co-PI Cesar Delgado. This project is developing and testing an educational virtual environment — Scale Worlds — that allows students to grow up to the size of the unobservable universe or shrink down to the Planck length, as they learn about scale and improve their numeracy.
Theory development, visual analysis, empirical investigation, and production of complex visual displays for STEM education.
Theory development and empirical investigation of visual metaphor in advertising.
Classification and evaluation of visual representations in multimedia.
“A Taxonomy of Cognitive Image Functions for Science Curriculum Materials: Identifying and Creating ‘Performative’ Visual Displays,” International Journal of Science Education (2021), with co-authors Delgado, Tang, Bordas, and Norville.
“Anticipating Gaze-Based HCI Applications with the Tech Receptivity Interval: Eye Tracking as Input,” Visible Language (2020), with co-authors Tober, Littlejohn, and Hill.
“Aspects of Visual Metaphor: An Operational Typology of Visual Rhetoric for Research in Advertising,” International Journal of Advertising (2019).
Audience interaction and visual storytelling on issues of borders, traditional culture, diaspora, and effects on communities in transition
Scholarship
Participatory design
Design and social innovation
Public sociology
Essays and presentations
Design Philosophy Papers
Design and Culture
European Sociological Association
A4 Museum (Chengdu)
TU Delft
Chicago Art Institute
Recent selected venues and dissemination:
United States: Davis Gallery- exhibition and program: Center for Design and Material Culture University of Wisconsin (Madison) upcoming.
Book chapter-Springer Verlag Series “Frontiers of Sociology and Social Research, in What People Leave Behind; “Rethinking Cultural Probes in Community Research and Design as Ethnographic Practice.” 2022.
Living Histories DSI project begun in Kefalonia Greece, 2019- continuing.
“Expanding on the capabilities of cultural probes through interaction principles for long-term interventions in communities.” University of Rome European Sociological Association, Qualitative Research Network, Conference, Rome, Italy. 2021.
Exhibition and exploratory research in Chengdu, China and hosted by A4 Museum December/January. 2019/2020.
Exhibition- Centre de design, Montreal. 2019.
Solo exhibition in United States at Charlotte and Phillip Haynes Gallery, Wake Forest University. Catalog introduction by Elizabeth Guffey. 2018.
Solo exhibition “Social Capital,” Dukakis Center (Boston and Thessaloniki Greece) and Institut Francais. Thessaloniki Greece. 2017.
