About the author

Designing Objects with Meaningful Associations

Daniel Orth
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Daniel Orth is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Technology Sydney. His research focuses on designing for product attachment and the intersection between physical and digital products. Daniel previously worked as an industrial designer, developing design solutions with global retail clients. His research interests include emotional design, self-identity, product consumption and human-centred design.

Clementine Thurgood
Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Australia

Clementine Thurgood is a Lecturer in Design Factory Melbourne and the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology. She was previously a postdoctoral research fellow in the Design Innovation Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney. Clementine obtained a bachelor’s degree (hons) in psychology and psychophysiology and a PhD in Experimental Aesthetics from Swinburne University of Technology. Her research interests include design innovation, design methods and tools, design thinking and aesthetics.

Elise van den Hoven
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Australia

Elise van den Hoven is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Technology Sydney and Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Design of the Eindhoven University of Technology. She has two honorary appointments: honorary senior research fellow at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, and associate investigator with the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. Elise is the project leader of Materialising Memories, a research program that aims to design for improved reliving of personal memories. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, interaction design, tangible and physical interaction, people-centred design and supporting human remembering activities.