Using Community Engagement to Drive Co-Creation in Rural China
Wei Wang
Hunan University, Changsha, China
Dr. Wei Wang is Senior Researcher at Hunan University and Visiting Scholar at Queen Mary University of London. He currently leads Human-Centered Design at the HNU Media Lab (Shenzhen) with industrial partners and local startups in interactive technologies and smart hardware. He worked at the Nokia Research Center from 2008 to 2012 as Member of Research Staff, Senior Designer and then User Experience Lead; he participated in and led multiple projects in new HCI technologies and user studies in emerging mobile/wearable platforms and applications, and supported Nokia’s product strategy in growth markets. He has been granted 17 US/EU/CN patents in HCI and information service, and received a Nokia Annual Achievement award in 2010 for the successful technical transfer of Nokia music service based on ethnographic research in Kenya. He is Deputy Director of the Information & Interaction Design Committee, China Industrial Design Association. Wang received his PhD in 2008.
Nick Bryan-Kinns
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Dr. Nick Bryan-Kinns is Reader in Interaction Design and Deputy Dean for Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London, and Visiting Professor of Interaction Design at Hunan University. He leads Interactional Sound and Music at QMUL and has published award-winning international journal papers from his multi-million-pound-funded research. Bryan-Kinns held a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Secondment in recognition of his work on commercializing academic research. He has provided expert opinion for the NSF and the European Commission, and chaired the ACM Creativity and Cognition conference 2009, and BCS-HCI 2006. He is a BCS Fellow, recipient of ACM and BCS Recognition of Service Awards, and founding chair of the ACM Creativity, Cognition and Art Community. Bryan-Kinns is a Chartered Engineer and received his PhD in 1998.
Tie Ji
Hunan University, Changsha, China
China
Professor Tie Ji is Deputy Dean at the School of Design, Hunan University. He leads the Communication Lab at Hunan University as a founding member of DESIS China and LeNS (Learning Network on Sustainability). His research and practice mostly focus upon social innovations and design in rural China, including founding the “New Channel” program in 2009, initiating the “Lotus Prize” Design and Innovation Competition for social engagement, and curating the 2012 Sino-Italian Design Exhibition, and more recently the “Xiang” Culture Maker Joint Exhibition at the 2015 Milan Expo Gate. He is General Sectary of the Teaching Instruction Commission of Industrial Design in the China Ministry of Education.