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INNOVATION SPACE


My journey began in a compact lab I called the Ice House Innovation Space, serving as Inventor-In-Residence creating the early models and prototypes in my Case Studies. The university named it JMU X‑Labs before moving the facility to a purpose-built complex on their main campus where I launched the Concept Visualization Studio. In an expanded role, I mentored students and led faculty seminars in product concept visualization, interaction design, interface gamification, and software prototyping. At the height of X‑Labs popularity, I moved my workstation to an NMR Facility at the east campus Physics & Chemistry Building where I designed and developed ChemSim‑VR. As expected, conditions there were ideal for prototyping educational software, with faculty providing subject-matter expertise and students supplying end user feedback. The poster below encouraged everyone at James Madison University to visit the original Innovation Space at the Ice House Building in downtown Harrisonburg.