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…
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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…
Introducing the Homeware Lab
As founder and director, I’m excited to announce the Homeware Lab — a 1200 square ft world-class design research lab and studio that offers world-class facilities to the design and study of radically new kinds of forms, materials and technologies for the emerging Internet-of-Things paradigm. The term Homeware aims to…
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…
Design 3.0 Forum in Beijing
I recently gave a distinguished invited presentation at the Design 3.0 Forum in Beijing. The event was held at Tsinghua University and co-organized with KAIST Industrial Design (the founders of this annual event). More about the event below: Design 3.0 Forum aims to raise and discuss the challenging issues in…
Graduate Positions for Fall ’19
Dr. William Odom and the Everyday Design Studio is looking for new graduate students to join our group in Fall 2019. 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….
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…