About the author

The Product Ecology: Understanding Social Product Use and Supporting Design Culture

Jodi Forlizzi
www.goodgestreet.com
School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Jodi Forlizzi is an Associate Professor of Design and Human-Computer Interaction and the A. Nico Habermann Chair of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. She is an interaction designer contributing to design theory and practice. Her theoretical research examines theories of experience, emotion, and social product use as they relate to interaction design. Other research and practice centers on notification systems ranging from peripheral displays to embodied robots, with a special focus on the social behavior evoked by these systems.