Towards a Next Wave of Wearable and Fashionable Interactions
Oscar Tomico
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands/ELISAVA, Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Oscar Tomico is head of the Design Engineering Bachelor program at ELISAVA Design and Engineering School, and an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, working on soft interactions for the Wearable Senses Lab. Current projects focus on the textile industry and involve stakeholders during the design process to create ultra-personalized smart textile services in the form of soft wearables. He is involved in research projects such as ArcInTexETN (2015), CLICKNL Crafting Wearables (2013), and CRISP Smart Textile Services (2011). He has been a guest researcher and lecturer at the Textile and Design Lab, Auckland University of Technology (NZ), TaiwanTech (Taiwan), the Swedish School of Textiles (Sweden), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (Spain), and Aalto University (Finland). He has co-organized events such as the Waag Careful Designs and Hypercrafting Fashion events (Amsterdam), Baltan Open Lab: Wearable Senses workshops (Eindhoven), Crafting Wearables (Arnhem) and DHUB Smart services, smart production, smart textiles (Barcelona). He has curated exhibitions such as “Systems Design – Eindhoven School” (DHUB, Barcelona), and “Smart Textiles – Wearable Services” (TextielMuseum, Tilburg).
Lars Hallnäs
University of Borås, Borås, Sweden
Canada
Dr. Lars Hallnäs is senior professor in interaction design at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås. He has a background in philosophy and mathematical logic and is docent in logic at Stockholm University. Besides research in design theory he has done research work in mathematical logic, computer science and experimental interaction design. Lars has an education in musical composition and has been active as a composer since the 1970s.
Rung-Huei Liang
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
Dr. Rung-Huei Liang received his PhD in 1997 from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. He is now an associate professor in the Department of Design, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His research interests include interaction design, design fiction and embodied interaction. Following the third wave of HCI, he conducts research projects with a phenomenological approach and advocates poetic interaction design. He is highly interested in experiential qualities such as serendipity, synchronicity, reflexivity, déjà vu, and Mandela effects. He leads the Spatial Media Research Group, which focuses on interaction design, virtual reality, aesthetic computing, and speculative design. He actively participates in academic communities and activities such as ACM SIGCHI, Taiwan CHI, Taiwan Art and Technology Association, DIS, DPPI, and IASDR. He is also involved in leading students to create critical forms of interaction by speculating on technology as a thought experiment.
Stephan A. G. Wensveen
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Dr. Stephan Wensveen is a professor in the department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. He studied Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology, where he was one of the initiators of the ID-Studiolab design research studio. He began his research on the relationships between emotions, expressivity and product design in 1999. He gained his PhD in 2005; his thesis aimed to bridge the tangible interaction, affective computing and product design communities. This PhD work helped to develop design methods and research articles that are now part of many international design curricula. Since 2005, he has served on multiple conference review committees and was keynote speaker at DPPI’07 (Designing Pleasurable Product and Interfaces conference) and SIDeR’08 (Student Interaction Design and Research conference). His current interests are in using the power of design to integrate research, education and innovation, especially in the areas of textiles and electronics.