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…
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2 Honorable Mention Awards at DIS 2016!
I had the incredible good fortune to collaborate with a set of fantastic researchers that produced an accepted paper and an accepted pictorial at the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016 conference in Brisbane, Australia. Both of these works received Best Paper Honorable Mention awards! Erick Odour, Carman Neustaedter, William Odom, Anthony Tang,…
CHI 2016 Best Paper Honorable Mention
The paper I co-authored with my esteemed colleague Daisuke Uriu from Keio University Graduate School of Media Design in Tokyo, Japan won a best paper honorable mention at CHI 2016! Find out more about he project here: Fenestra Design & Field Study Daisuke Uriu & William Odom. (2016). Designing for…
3 Papers Accepted at CHI 2016!
Along with some fantastic collaborators, I had the good fortune to have three papers accepted for the CHI 2016 conference: William Odom, Ron Wakkary, Youn-kyung Lim, Audrey Desjardins, Richard Banks, Bart Hengeveld. (2016). From Research Prototype to Research Product. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. San Jose, USA. CHI…
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…
Banting Fellow Presentation at Special SFU Event
I am presenting on my research on Banting Fellowship research on Developing a Theory and Practice of Slow Interaction Design at a special SFU sponsored event and reception celebrating the work of the newly arrived fellows. I am in incredible company at this event with cutting edge research being represented across biology, chemistry,…
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…
Banting fellowship press release
Simon Fraser University’s press release on my Banting fellowship just came out.
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…
Creativity & Cognition 2015
From 22-25 June 2015 I am at the 2015 Creativity & Cognition conference in Glasgow, Scottland, I’m (i) presenting a paper on Intersecting with Unaware Objects, (ii) charing the Tools and Interfaces session, (iii) seeing some great work, and (iv) drinking Scottish ale.