Touching a Stranger: Designing for Engaging Experience in Embodied Interaction
Mads Hobye
Malmö University
Mads Hobye (b. 1980) is a PhD student in interaction design at the Medea Collaborative Media Initiative, Malmö University, Sweden, and co-founder of the Illutron collaborative interactive art studio. He focuses on how digital material can be used for exploring social transformative play situated in the context of everyday life. He has done several large-scale installations and working prototypes, which he is using as a basis for his PhD research. More information is available on Hobye’s work at www.hobye.dk.
Jonas Löwgren
http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo
Malmö University
Sweden
Jonas Löwgren (b. 1964) is professor of interaction design and a co-founder of the School of Arts and Communication (K3), Malmö University, Sweden. He specializes in cross-media products, interactive visualization and design theory of digital materials. Löwgren has taught interaction design in university courses and in companies since the early 1990s and initiated the influential two-year master’s program in interaction design at Malmö University in 1998. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and three books, including Thoughtful Interaction Design (with Erik Stolterman, MIT Press), and a vast range of general-interest and pedagogical material. His design portfolio comprises some 50 projects in explorative research and professional contexts. More information on Löwgren’s work is available at webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/.