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….
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…
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…
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.
Along with a fantastic set of collaborators, we recently had a pictorial paper accepted and presented at the Creativity & Cognition 2019 conference in San Diego, California. This pictorial offers conceptual and practical insights into how a slow technology research product is created — from initial prototyping and exploration to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…