Along with co-editors Marco Rozendaal and Betti Marenko, our book Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life was published by the Bloomsbury Press Design Book Series. We recently had a book launch event and panel at Dutch Design Week 2021 in the Historic Pavilion in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Check out more coverage…
Achievements
Papers and Workshop @ DIS2020
We had a number of works accepted at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference. Our group’s Olo Radio field study project was accepted and received a best paper honorable mention award! Along with fantastic colleagues at the University of British Columbia, we also had a paper accepted Data Dashboards…
Paper and Workshop @ CHI2020
Along with a fantastic set of colleagues that span Simon Fraser University we had 1 archival paper accepted for publication at the CHI 2020 conference and it received a best paper honourable mention award! Heshmat, Y., Neustaedter, C., McCaffery, K., Odom, W., Wakkary, R., Yang, Z. (2020). FamilyStories: Asynchronous Audio Storytelling…
4 Papers + Best Paper Honorable Mention Award @ DIS 2019
Along with a fantastic set of colleagues that span Simon Fraser University (Canada), University of British Columbia (Canada), and the University of Oslo (Norway), I have had four archival papers accepted for publication — 3 papers and 1 pictorial (i.e., a visual paper) — at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems…
CHI 2019 Best Paper Award
Very happy to announce that our paper on the long-term field study of Olly received a Best Paper Award at CHI 2019. This is the result of a great collaboration among designer-researchers at Simon Fraser University and Eindhoven University of Technology. We’re excited to share our next chapter of slow…
4 Papers Accepted @ CHI 2019
Along with a fantastic set of colleagues that span Simon Fraser University (Canada), Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany), Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland), and Fuji Xerox (Japan), I have had 4 archival papers conditionally accepted for publication at the CHI 2019 Conference…
SFU Emerging Researcher Award
At the end of 2018, I received the Simon Fraser University Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology (FCAT) Emerging Research Award. This award is for demonstrated excellence in early-career research. Only one of these awards is handed out annually and it was an honour to receive it. The award was…
Van UX People’s Choice Award
The Van UX awards happened last week and the People’s Choice Award was won by a project team from my offering the IAT 499 Graduation Project course. The team consisted of Aron Chen, Gabriel Yeung, and Venus Lau for their Inclusive Postpartum Care project with Stevie Nguyen as their industry…
2 Papers + 1 Pictorial @ DIS 2018
Along with a fantastic set of colleagues that collectively span Simon Fraser University, Università della Svizzera italiana Lugano, the University of Tokyo, the University of Melbourne, and Emily Carr University, I have had 1 full paper, 1 note, and 1 pictorial accepted for publication at the DIS 2018 conference in…
CHI 2018 Best Paper HM Award
My co-author Tijs Duel and I received word that our paper on OLO Radio received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2018 — awarded to the top 5% of all submissions (the conference received over 2500 submissions). William Odom, Tijs Duel. 2018. On the Design of OLO Radio: Investigating…