Rona Sadan
MS, TMS '20
ATLAS Institute
rona.sadan@colorado.edu

Rona Sadan holds a Bachelor of Arts in interactive communication from the media lab (miLAb) in the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. Rona's interest lies in the encounter of technology, craft and education. She seeks to explore how bringing physical and digital worlds together can benefit the learning experiences among children. She is advised by Michael Eisenberg, professor of computer science.

For more information about Rona, view her LinkedIn page. Alumni pages are not always updated after graduation.​

 

Publications

  • Kearney Newman, Ricky Marton, Janice Higuera, Aarjav Chauhan, Rona Sadan & Heather Underwood. 2020. Designing for Women: Radio-Based Seed Saving Education for Widowed Female Farmers in India. In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Humanitarian and Technology Conference (Seattle, Washington (hybrid/virtual)–Oct. 29, 2020). DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342955.
  • Sadan, Rona. 2020. A "Low-Floor" Multimeter: Supporting E-textile Debugging by Revealing Voltage and Continuit.  In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '20). DOI: 10.1145/3328778.3372713. (Portland, Oregon–March 11-14, 2020).

 

 

In the news

Female Indian farmers
Seeding change: MS students' paper on cycles of poverty in rural India accepted by international conference

Dec. 17, 2020

When three first-year ATLAS master's students in the Social Impact track of the Creative Technology and Design program learned of the staggering suicide rate of male farmers in rural India and the suffering that ensues for their surviving family members, they wanted to explore effective interventions.