“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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CHI 2019 Best Paper Award

  • Posted on 19th March 2019
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…

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Introducing the Homeware Lab

  • Posted on 15th December 2018
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…

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Van UX People’s Choice Award

  • Posted on 4th December 2018
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…

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