Graduate Positions for Fall ’24

  • Posted on 14th November 2023

Dr. William Odom is looking for new graduate students to join our group in Fall 2023. 2 funded, competitive PhD positions are available. Masters positions are also available. The Homeware Lab is a design research group at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at the SFU Surrey…

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Graduate Positions for Fall ’23

  • Posted on 8th November 2021
Graduate Positions for Fall ’23

Dr. William Odom is looking for new graduate students to join our group in Fall 2022. 1 PhD position and 2 Masters positions are available. These positions are funded and highly competitive. The Everyday Design Studio http://eds.siat.sfu.ca is a design research studio at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology…

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Designing Smart Objects Book

  • Posted on 4th November 2021
Designing Smart Objects Book

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…

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Graduate Positions for Fall ’21

  • Posted on 26th November 2020
Graduate Positions for Fall ’21

Dr. William Odom and the Everyday Design Studio is looking for new graduate students to join our group in Fall 2021. Positions are funded, limited, and highly competitive. The Everyday Design Studio http://eds.siat.sfu.ca is a design research studio at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) in Vancouver, Canada….

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Papers and Workshop @ DIS2020

  • Posted on 4th June 2020
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…

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Paper and Workshop @ CHI2020

  • Posted on 4th June 2020
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…

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Graduate Positions for Fall ’20

  • Posted on 5th November 2019
Graduate Positions for Fall ’20

Dr. William Odom and the Everyday Design Studio is looking for new graduate students to join our group in Fall 2020. Positions are funded, limited, and highly competitive. The Everyday Design Studio http://eds.siat.sfu.ca is a design research studio at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) in Vancouver, Canada….

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Keynote at Aarhus University

  • Posted on 14th October 2019
Keynote at Aarhus University

August 16 2019 I gave a keynote address at the 2019 Summer Participatory Information Technology Symposium at Aarhus University in Denmark. The day’s programme focused on exploring the role(s) of creative, artistic, and/or design-oriented practice-based research in Human-Computer Interaction Design research. I was excited to share some of my ongoing…

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“Coolest Course” at SFU

  • Posted on 22nd July 2019
“Coolest Course” at SFU

My recent re-design and offering of the IAT 333 Interaction Design Methods course at SFU was recently highlighted by Maclean’s magazine as one of the “coolest courses” at Simon Fraser University. The magazine only featured two courses total (the second is also from my department). My offering of Interaction Design…

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Slow Interaction at ATÖLYE Design Studio

  • Posted on 5th June 2019
Slow Interaction at ATÖLYE Design Studio

Excited to share recent slow interaction design projects at ATÖLYE Design Studio as a part of their invited design lecture series in Istanbul, Turkey on 19 June. This talk is co-sponsored by the Koç University Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

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