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Dennis Cheatham

Educational Credentials

• MFA, Design: Innovation Studies, University of North Texas
• BFA, Design Communication, Texas Tech University
• B.A., English, Texas Tech University

Biography

Dennis Cheatham is an Associate Professor of Design in the Department of Art and is an Affiliate Faculty member in Emerging Technology in Business and Design. He serves as a Research Fellow at Miami's Scripps Center for Gerontology. Dennis’s research explores ways to design products, services, and systems to produce relevant and meaningful experiences. His current work focuses on advance care planning and topics in aging, including improving personalized resident experiences in assisted living communities and enriching programming for people with dementia. Dennis practiced design for fifteen years as a creative director, graphic designer, and interaction and experience designer in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design-Innovation Studies from the University of North Texas, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design Communication, and a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Texas Tech University.

Teaching Areas

• Experience Design
• Interaction Design
• Design Research
• Innovation Studies
• Generative AI

Select Publications

• Cheatham, D. (2023). . Journal of
  Futures Studies.
• Cheatham, D. (2023). . In A. Marcus, E. Rosenzweig, and M. M. Soares (Eds.), Design, User Experience, and Usability: 12th
  International Conference, DUXU 2023 (pp. 388–400). Springer Nature.
• Cheatham, D. (2023). . In A.
  Larocchi (Ed.), Applying Education in a Complex World: Teaching and Learning (pp. 131–141). Amps
  Proceedings Series.
• Heid, A. R., Heppner, A., Cheatham, D., VanHaitsma, K., & Abbott, K. M. (2022).
  . Gerontology & Geriatrics
  Education, 1–14.
• Cheatham, D. (2019). Rewarding Risk: Exploring How to Encourage Learning that Comes from Taking
  Risks. Teaching and Learning Design: Re: Research, Volume 1, 1, 105.
• Cheatham, D. (2018).
  . Graphic Design Journal, 7, 62-73.
• Cheatham, D. (2017). . Dialectic, 1(2), 75-100.
• Cheatham, D. (2017). . Iterations: Design Research and Practice Review, 1(5), 22-27.
• Cheatham, D. M. (2017, October 31-November 3).
  . Proceedings: IASDR 2017: Re: Research, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Cheatham, D. M. (2015, November 19-22). .
  Proceedings from , Oxford, Ohio.