I just returned back from the University of Oslo department of informatics, where I was an external opponent on Suhas Joshi’s dissertation defence. Professor Mikael Wiburg was also an external opponent. The dissertation defence opposition went for several hours and raised various interesting issues, ideas, and challenges related to putting…
Travel
CHI 2017 Workshop on Design Research
Along with an incredible group of progressive design researchers, I am co-organizing a workshop on Design Research at CHI 2017. You can find more here. Consider submitting something! The Things of Design Research Tom Jenkins, Georgia Tech Kristina Andersen, STEIM Bill Gaver, Goldsmiths William Odom, Simon Fraser University James Pierce, Carnegie…
DUB Seminar at UW
I had a fantastic time visiting University of Washington to give a talk on slow interaction design at their DUB (Design Use Build) research seminar series. It was great to see some old friends that are now based at UW and meet many new students and faculty members.
Slow Interaction Master Class at Newcastle University
I excited to have been invited to teach a Slow Interaction Studio Master Class at the EPSRC Digital Economy Network Summer School hosted at Newcastle University in mid July. This studio-based class will begin with an introduction to slow interaction design by describing its historical origins and reviewing a portfolio of…
Organizing CHI 2016 Workshops on Interaction Design Artifacts and Visual Literacy in HCI
Along with an incredible group of progressive design researchers, I am co-organizing two workshops at CHI 2016. Attending to Objects as Outcomes of Design Research Tom Jenkins, Georgia Tech Kristina Andersen, STEIM Bill Gaver, Goldsmiths William Odom, Simon Fraser University James Pierce, Carnegie Mellon University Anna Vallgårda, IT University of Copenhagen…
Dutch Design Week, exhibits & talk
Along with some great students and my colleague Ron Wakkary, I have a Design United funded exhibit at Dutch Design Week on Unaware Objects. We are exhibiting three highly polished design research products that emerged out of an Industrial Design module on Unaware Objects and Slow Interaction that myself and…
Research Seminar Lecture at Edinburgh University
I’ll be giving a research seminar lecture in the department of design informatics in the Edinburgh College of Art at Edinburgh University in the UK on June 26, 2015. This talk explores several questions related to slowness, temporality, and design by drawing on three research projets I have worked on that…
Special Design United Sponsored Research Colloquium
I’ll be giving a special 3TU Design United sponsored research colloquium lecture in the department of industrial design at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. This talk traces a trajectory of design research projects I have worked on over the past several years that collectively aim to critically and…
2015 Design United Visiting Researcher
As a Design United visiting research, I will be based at the industrial design department of TU/Eindhoven in the Netherlands for one month (27 April – 27 May, 2015), where I’ll be teaching an intensive graduate-level design studio module course on slow interaction and beginning work on some new projects!
CHI 2015
From April 19 – 23, 2015 I will be at the 2015 ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Seoul, Korea. I’m (i) presenting a paper investigating long-term interactions with slow technology in the Reflecting on Design Reflection session (see reference below), (ii) judging the Student Design Competition, (iii) supporting my co-authors…