Special Issue Editorial: Aesthetics of Interaction
Caroline Hummels
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Dr. C. C. M. (Caroline) Hummels (1966) is an associate professor and director of education at the department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She has a background in Industrial Design Engineering (Master and PhD). Her research, education and design activities concentrate on developing a holistic design framework to answer the overall question “How to design for interaction within adaptive and highly dynamic systems with a special focus on aesthetics, resonance, embodiment, social interaction and living learning labs. She developed various installations such as ISH, next to design techniques and processes such as the Reflective Transformative Design Process, interaction maps & mechanisms, and interactive tangible sketching. She is a member of the steering committee of the Tangible Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Conferences (TEI) and she has been a member of a variety of program committees and national Think Tanks since 2001. She has given several keynote speeches as well as dozens of invited lectures and workshops at conferences, international universities and for industry. She has been guest editor of Knowledge, Technology and Policy and worked also as a visiting researcher at Media Lab Europe in Dublin for three months.
Kees Overbeeke
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Netherlands
Dr. C. J. (Kees) Overbeeke (1952) studied psychology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, where he earned his M.A. in 1974. After working there, he moved to the Department of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he earned his PhD in 1988 on spatial perception on flat screens, and where he headed the Form Theory group as associate professor until his move to the Industrial Design Department of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 2002. During the 2005-2006 academic year he held the Distinguished Nierenberg Chair of Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and in 2006 he was appointed full professor at TU/e. He has initiated several new subjects in design research: design and emotion, funology, aesthetics of interaction, rich interaction, and design and ethics. He has published extensively on these subjects in journals, books and conference papers. He initiated the “Design and Emotion” and the “Designing for Pleasurable Products and Interfaces” (DPPI) conferences. He has been a keynote speaker and a member of the scientific committees at several international conferences. He is also an editor and a member of the editorial board of several leading international design journals.