The Rigor and Repurposing of Academic Research & Being Your Authentic Self w/Reality Canty

Reality Canty joins NOMADS: The HCI Podcast to share, in his own words,  his experiences in life including  "excelling in school, commandeering the urban streets, fly fishing on Alaskan riverbanks, earning a PhD, starting several companies, and prevailing through worlds of challenge makes [him] a different". Now a User Experience Researcher at Google, Real gives us insight on applying the rigor of academic research to the fast-paced iterative world of design research in industry and talks about owning his identity and living true to one's values in life in the face work.

Connect with Real:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/realitycanty/ 

Links and Things:

• The Spook Who Sat By The Door (movie): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/movies/spook-who-sat-by-the-door.html
• Google invests $10 Billions to promote Education in India https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/13/google-makes-education-push-in-india/
• Situated Cognition: Origins: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/situated-cognition
• Rural Population in India: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.RUR.TOTL.ZS?locations=IN
• Mental Models and UX: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/mental-models/
• Mythic Quest (series) - Women in Gaming: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8879940/episodes?season=1&ref_=tt_eps_sn_1
• Distribution of game developers worldwide from 2014 to 2019, by gender: https://www.statista.com/statistics/453634/game-developer-gender-distribution-worldwide/
• Level up on diversity: Three changes to get more women into games: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-09-14-level-up-on-diversity-three-changes-to-get-more-women-into-games
• Indians on TV, Master of None (series): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4658458/?ref_=ttep_ep4

About US:
Sunny and Connie are grad students majoring in Human-Computer Interaction and are passionate about designing experiences to empower people around the world.