Designing for Perceptual Crossing: Applying and Evaluating Design Notions
Eva Deckers
Eindhoven University of Technology
Since 2010 Eva Deckers is working on her doctoral project, ‘How to design for perceptive qualities in systems of interactive systems?’, within the Designing Quality of Interaction Group at the Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Industrial Design. She also pursued her bachelor and master’s degree education in this department and graduated cum laude in 2009. She will defend her doctoral work in May 2013. The work presented here is a direct result of her doctoral work. An important facet of her project is the fact that it has produced a number of iterations in the field of intelligent textiles, including her carpet design PeR, which has been exhibited on several occasions and which resulted in a number of different publications (dqi.id.tue.nl/per). Collaboration with an industrial partner on the development of the intelligent and interactive carpet shows the feasibility and market value of her work. She connects design-research to design-education as a lecturer and coach. She has been the chair of the alumni-association of IDEa since 2010.
Pierre Levy
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
Pierre Lévy is assistant professor in the Designing Quality in Interaction Group at the Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Industrial Design. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering (with a focus on Industrial Design) at the Compiègne University of Technology, France (2001), and gained a PhD with honours in Kansei Science at the University of Tsukuba, Japan (2006). After serving in a post-doctoral position at the Laboratory of Kansei Information Science at the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Science at the University of Tsukuba, he became a researcher and lecturer at Chiba University as well as a lecturer at the University of Tsukuba. He has been an active member of the Japan Society of Kansei Engineering (JSKE), serving currently as an international counsellor of JSKE, a member of the Editorial Board of the Kansei Engineering International Journal, and as a co-organizer of the International Conference of Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research International 2010 in Paris, France. He explores opportunities for applying Kansei science and Kansei philosophy to product and interaction design.
Stephan Wensveen
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
Stephan Wensveen is Associate Professor of Interaction Design (since 2011) at the Mads Clausen Institute. He has an MSc (1995) and PhD (2005) in Industrial Design Engineering from TUDelft. In 2002 he became an assistant professor at TU/Eindhoven and joined the Designing Quality in Interaction group with Prof. Kees Overbeeke. His interest is in using the power of design to integrate research, education and innovation, which he demonstrated as project leader for the /d.search-labs and as initiator and research director of Wearable Senses and the nationally funded project on Smart Textile Services. Many of his papers are part of the standard curricula in interaction design schools and he is co-author of the book ‘Design Research through Practice’. In 2011 he expanded his horizon on multi-disciplinary design and Participatory Innovation when he joined the SPIRE group of Prof. Jacob Buur at MCI.
Rene Ahn
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
René Ahn is an assistant professor in the Designed Intelligence Group at the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He has an MSc (1982, with honours) in theoretical physics. He has been employed at Philips Research Laboratories, and at Tilburg University, where he worked on subjects like automated deduction, computational semantics and the design of intelligent interfaces. In 1998 he joined the Institute of Perception Research (IPO) and in 2001 he gained a PhD from the institute of programming research and algorithmics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His current interests are in adaptive algorithms, reinforcement learning, and embodied interaction and cooperation. He believes that the understanding and application of biological principles is essential to the further development of smart computation and interaction mechanisms.
Kees Overbeeke
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Kees Overbeeke († 2011) was appointed full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) for Intelligent Products and System Design in the Department of Industrial Design in May, 2006. Kees Overbeeke studied psychology at the Katholieke Universititeit Leuven (1974). After working there he moved to the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology where he earned his PhD (1988) in spatial perception on flat screens. He headed the Form Theory Group as an Associate Professor until his move to the Department of Industrial Design of TU/e in 2002. During the academic year 2005-2006 he was invited as the Nierenberg Chair of Design at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design in Pittsburgh. At TU/e he headed the Designing Quality in Interaction group until September 2011. He sadly passed away on October 8th 2011.