Kevin Brooks
Kevin is a principle staff researcher for Motorola Labs and a professional oral storyteller. At Motorola, Kevin researches new user-interface technologies and expresses these technologies as connected user-centered experiences, creating “technology stories” that incorporate elements of audio, video, graphics, written language and computer programming. As a writer and performing oral storyteller, Kevin tells personal tales from his urban childhood in the 60s to his present-day role as a parent himself, and he has been a featured performer at many storytelling festivals, conferences and other venues.
Kevin received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, where his area of research was computational narrative and interactive cinema. He has also studied engineering, computer science, creative writing and film production as an undergraduate, receiving a BS in Communications from Drexel University and an MA in Documentary Film Production from Stanford University.
Kevin has several published papers and has given numerous workshops on storytelling and interactive story design. In 2006 he released his first CD of stories, entitled Kiss of Summer.