Previous Seminars
On putting 'the thing' into the internet of
things.
May 17, 2016. Diane Michelfelder, Macalester College. UID
Blue Room, 13.15.
The title of this talk may seem unusual, if not
perplexing. After all, doesn't the Internet of Things have enough
things already? Drawing upon the work of thinkers as diverse
as Albert Borgmann and Franco Berardi, I will make two passes at
this question. The results will converge on the idea that we should
just stop talking about the Internet of Things. This idea does not
originate with me. What I hope to do here is to give some new,
philosophical reasons for why it is a good idea, as well as to
explore what a few of the implications for designing things might
be.
To do good/design
April 7, 2016. UID Auditorium, 10.00-
12.00.
A panel talk with Cameron
Tonkinwise, Director of Design Studies, School of
Design, Carnegie Mellon University, Maria Hellström
Reimer, Professor in design in theory and
practice, Malmö Högskola and Tuuli
Mattelmäki, Associate Professor, School of Art, Design and
Architecture, Aalto University.
Design and agency in healthcare
March 15, 2016. UID
Auditorium, 10.00-12.00.
Panel talk with Alastair Macdonald, professor
at the School of Design, Glasgow School of Arts and Jodi Forlizzi, professor at
the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon
Univeristy. Moderator: Erik Stolterman
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 Jodi
Forlizzi is a Professor in the Human-Computer
Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon University, and a CIO and Co-founder of Pratter, a health
care startup. Her research ranges from understanding the
limits of human attention to understanding how products and
services evoke social behavior. She designs and researches systems
ranging from peripheral displays to social and assistive robots.
Her current research interests include designing educational games
that are engaging and effective, designing services that adapt to
people's needs, and designing for healthcare. Jodi is a member of
the Association for Computer Machinery Computer-Human Interaction
Academy and has been honored by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center
for excellence in design research. Jodi has consulted with Disney
and General Motors to create innovative product-service
systems.
 Alastair Macdonald is a
Professor and the Senior Researcher in the School of Design at the
Glasgow School of Art. He heads a team of researchers and doctoral
students with a focus on design-led research for age, health and
care. His expertise is seen as integral, rather than consultative,
to the make-up of multi-disciplinary research teams and his team's
methods integrated into the design of the over-arching research
methodologies used. Recent work encompasses end-of-life-care for
dementia, countering malnutrition in older hospital patients, and
visualization tools for use in stroke rehabilitation and infection
prevention and control training within the UK's National Health
Service. His approaches often subvert traditional healthcare
hierarchies and processes enabling new voices to emerge to help
shape the development of innovative interventions in these contexts
where he is particularly interested in exploring and testing
design's legitimacy and credibility.
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Christopher Alexander, Between Love & Hate
October 2, 2016.
Lecture with Molly Wright Steenson,
Associate professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Design,
Pittsburgh.
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User-Centered Design: Past, Present, and Possible Futures
October 8, 2016. UID Auditorium.
A Conversation with Elizabeth "Liz" Sanders, Associate
Professor at the Design Department at The Ohio State University
(OSU) and Ron Wakkary, Professor in the School of
Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University
(SFU).
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