Fashion Thinking: Fashion Practices and Sustainable Interaction Design
Yue Pan
www.panyuetia.com
Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Yue Pan is a design researcher with an interest in fashion, sustainability, HCI and design. She has recently graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a doctoral degree in School of Informatics HCI/d program. Her dissertation addresses the role of fashion (not clothing) in affecting people’s consumption attitudes and behaviors in their daily lives and provides mechanisms that allow designers to use fashion as a positive force to promote sustainability, especially in the context of HCI and interaction design. She has more than five years experiences in conducting qualitative user research and is proficient in a variety of user research methods and design methods. She will join Citrix as a design researcher in the fall of 2014.
David Roedl
http://www.davidroedl.com/
Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
United States
David Roedl is a PhD candidate of the Human-Computer Interaction Design program in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. His research involves studying the design of everyday technology and its effects on culture and the environment. His current work explores creative cultures of DIY repair and reuse and their potential to resist designed obsolescence. Previously, he has studied and designed software for promoting residential energy efficiency.
Eli Blevis
http://eli.informatics.indiana.edu/
Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
United States
Eli Blevis is an Associate Professor of Informatics in the Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCI/d) program of the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the HCI/d program. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic School of Design. His primary area of scholarship, and the one for which he is best known, is sustainable interaction design. This area of scholarship and his core expertise are situated within the confluence of human-computer interaction as it owes to the computing and cognitive and ethnographic sciences, and design as it owes to the reflection of design criticism and the practice of critical design. His scholarship also engages design theory, digital imagery and visual thinking, and design learning.
John Thomas
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-jcthomas
Problem Solving International, San Diego, USA
United States
John C. Thomas received his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Michigan and managed a research project at Harvard Medical School on the psychology of aging. He joined IBM Research, where he worked in human-computer interaction for a dozen years, including a stint at IBM CHQ, where he spearheaded efforts to improve IBM’s user experience. He left IBM to start the Artificial Intelligence Lab at NYNEX, where he served as Executive Director for twelve years. In 1998, he rejoined IBM Research to work in knowledge management and human-computer interaction. For several years, he managed a group on the business uses of stories and storytelling. He has over 250 invited presentations and publications in the fields of AI, HCI, and psychology. John currently works as a consultant in strategic innovation and customer experience.