An energetic performer/educator, Bean has conducted workshops at numerous universities and technology conferences across the country. For the past five years, she has also developed a variety of interactive media experiences while teaching at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. That work resulted in several museum exhibits including the Jam-O-Drum at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Zeum in San Francisco, the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA and Give Kids the World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Bean's work has also appeared at SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies in 2000 and 2001. She has been a contributing writer to Electronic Musician Magazine and was a "musical interactivist" at Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto for two years.

Bean has been on sabbatical from Carnegie Mellon this past year and consulting on entertainment technology for a variety of companies, including the new theater at Rhythmix Cultural Works. She will also be teaching a class called the "Joy of Drumming" this fall at RCW.