about Anya Product design is not just the conception and design of a product that looks good, but also an incorporation of the manufacturability, distribution, marketing, brand identity and cost structure of a product, balanced with an understanding of consumer needs, wants, and social contexts. My product designs relect market and customer need, innovation, and intense research. I strive to use technology in new, exciting and useful ways. An extensive past in marketing, sales and analysis contribute to my well rounded understanding of product development and design skills. I hope you enjoy my portfolio and I look forward to any comments or feedback you may have. To contact Anya A'Hearn please email: anya@anya-design.com

Dr. Sabit Adanur, Professor Auburn University Department of Textile Engineering 115 Textile Building Auburn, AL 36849-5327 U.S.A. Ph: 334 844-5497 Fax: 334 844-4068 e-mail: sadanur@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.aburn.edu/~adanusa RESEARCH NSF CAREER Air-Jet Weaving - Air and yarn velocity dynamics in air-jet weaving Virtual 3D - Computer aided design of engineered fabric structures EPSCoR - Recycling of PVC coated PET fabrics Geotextiles - Design and characterization ...

Davide Agnelli (Italy) people.interaction-ivrea.it/d.agnelli Expertise Computer science / artificial intelligence / information design Education Masters in Interaction Design, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Ivrea, Italy (2004) Masters in Computer Science Engineering (Computer Vision Lab), University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (1999) Bio During his studies Davide's research focus was on evolutionary systems and computer-based vision. Over the next three years, he worke ...

kristina andersen... ...works with interactions and concepts to create unusual objects, protocols and experiences using iterative processes informed by games and play. she holds an MA specialising in wearable computers, an M.Sc [distinction] specialising in tangible objects in virtual spaces, and was a research fellow at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IT), where in collaboration with Margot Jacobs and Laura Polazzi she worked on the FARAWAY project. the latter researches and creates in ...

Urs Anliker Research Interests Wearable Computing Power Management Context Awareness Contact E-mail uanliker@ife.ee.ethz.ch Phone +41-1-632 06 94 Fax +41-1-632 12 10 Office ETZ H61.1 Address ETH Zurich Electronics Lab Gloriastrasse 35 CH-8092 Zurich Publications AMON: A Wearable Multiparameter Medical Monitoring and Alert System U. Anliker, J.A. Ward, P. Lukowicz, G. Tröster, F. Dolveck, M. Baer, F. Keita, E. Schenker, F. Catarsi, L. Coluccini, A. Belardinelli, D. Shk ...

Junichi Arai Born 1932, Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. A master textile designer at play: Arai brings hands-on workshop to Parsons.(Junichi Arai)(Brief Article) Publication: Daily News Record; Author: Nannery, Matt ... Eminent Japanese textile designer Junichi Arai is pushing the limits of textile design ... bonding and computer technology. Arai, who was in New York recently to give ... fabric in white, silver and black. Arai laminated aluminum to one side of ... ART NOTES: T ...

Susan P. Ashdown Associate Professor, TXA 327 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Phone: (607) 255-1929 Fax: (607) 255-1093 spa4@cornell.edu Current Research Activities The focus of my work is the interaction between design and technology, and the changes in the way that apparel is designed, produced, and distributed using new and developing technologies. Specific areas of research include sizing and fit of apparel. The range of anthropometric variation of the population is of interest, as wel ...

Virginia Tech E-Textiles Laboratory Who are we? We are computing researchers who are interested in realizing the potential of e-textiles. The current and past faculty members and students are listed below. Our current support is provided by the DARPA E-Textiles program and the NSF ITR program. We are all associated with the VT Configurable Computing Laboratory in 3015 Torgersen Hall on the Virginia Tech campus. Peter Athanas Office: 2040-B Torgersen Mailing Address: 302 Whittemore (0111) V ...

Ingrid Bachmann is an interdisciplinary installation artist and an occasional writer and curator, whose interests span obsolete technologies and new digital media. Currently she is researching models of emergent behaviours in embodied systems and networks from the field of Artificial Life to create generative and interactive artworks. She is the co-editor of Material Matters, a critical anthology of essays that examines the relations of material to culture. She is currently the Graduate Programme Director, Studio Arts at Concordia and the acting Director for the Interactive Textiles and Wearable Computing Lab of Hexagram.

Camille Baker Lead Curator New Forms Festival Vancouver, British Columbia, CA (url) http://www.newformsfestival.com Posts to Rhizome 23 Member Since forever Last Updated August 4, 2003 Biography Camille Baker is a Masters Candidate in the Computing Arts and Design Sciences Graduate Program(due to complete April 2004), School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University. Currently, she is working full time for the unversity as a Media Developer(summer 2003) and the New ...

Arek Banasik research partner Arek is an independent artist and designer based in New York and Montreal. His work and research involves computational graphics, interaction design, reactive fashion, responsive furniture, music and sound. In 1994, he co-founded a multi-disciplinary design studio in New York called io/360 where he helped launch the field of computation design. Before it was acquired by Rare Medium in 1998, his work was featured in publications such as ID Magazine, Blueprint, Nikk ...

Sumit Basu, Ph.D. MIT EECS; MIT Media Laboratory Background I am now a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA working in the Knowledge Tools group. Until September 2002, I was a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT, working with Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland at the Media Lab. My research is focused on Communicative Computing, the quantitative analysis of human communication. This is made up of three areas: machine perception, huma ...

Laura Beloff, born 1964 in Finland. -works and lives in Oslo; Norway Awards 2002 Vida 5.0, Spain, honorary mention 2000 File-festival, SaoPaolo, third place 1995 The Top of the Year -Graphic Desing, Honorary Mention 1994 Finnish State and Ministry of Culture's Art Award Group Exhibitions 2004 Trondelag Contemporary Art Center, Trondheim 2004 Ars Electronica Festival, Linz 2004 ISEAexhibition, Tallinn 2004 The Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo 2003 Gallery Otso Espoo 2003 Russi ...

bio: Joanna Berzowska is an Assistant Professor of Design Art and Digital Image/Sound at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work and research deal primarily with "soft computation": electronic textiles, responsive clothing as wearable technology, reactive materials and squishy interfaces. She is the cofounder of International Fashion Machines in Boston, where she developed the first electronic ink wearable animated display and Electric Plaid, an addressable color-change textile. She recei ...

Samantha Bittman E-Textile Designer and Developer Samantha comes to IFM in Seattle to work full-time after interning for the company during 2003 and 2004 in Cambridge, Mass. She received her BFA in Textile Design from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. While attending RISD, she focused mainly on jacquard weaving and pattern making. She is also experienced in fabric silk-screen, machine knitting, hand weaving, and various CAD systems. After graduation, she spent time studying painting and drawing at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and improving her Web development skills at The College of Dupage. She brings to IFM to patience necessary for hand-tufting.

In August 2004, Kerry will complete her Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Her formal education has encompassed the fields of Cognitive Science, Psychology, Computer Science and Interaction Design. Her enjoyment of the physical aspects of design has led her to additional classes in electronics, wood working, weaving, metal working and drawing. Kerry has nine years of professional experience incorporating user-centered research, web application and physi ...

V. Michael Bove, Jr. Principal Research Scientist Director, Consumer Electronics Laboratory Group: Object-Based Media Office: E15-368B Phone: (617) 253-0334 Fax: (617) 253-7240 E-mail: vmb@media addresses are formatted username@media.mit.edu URL: http://www.media.mit.edu/~vmb Biography V. Michael Bove, Jr. directs the Media Lab's Consumer Electronics Laboratory (CELab) program, and heads the Object-Based Media research group. Bove is the author or co-author of over 50 jou ...

Diana Burgoyne - Biography After completing her BFA at University of Victoria, Diana Burgoyne went on to take an MFA at UCLA before returning to Canada. She has exhibited in New York City, San Francisco, Berlin, France, Holland and throughout Canada. She teaches a coarse called "Creative Electronics" at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and is a PH.D candidate in Interactive Arts at The Technical University of British Columbia. Artist Statement Thematically, my work responds to relations ...

Dario Buzzini (Italy) people.interaction-ivrea.it/d.buzzini Expertise Product and interaction design Education Masters in Interaction Design, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Ivrea, Italy (2004) Degree in Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy (2001) Bio Dario was active in the design field both in Italy and abroad. In Italy he worked for the Turin-based studio Nucleo and for Benetton's Fabrica. He studied product design for one year in Lisbon ...

Laurie Carlson, Premiere Lumia Artist™ Laurie Carlson is the premiere Fiber Artist who learned to weave at the age of 10. She studied textiles at the University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth earning her Master of Fine Arts degree in the Artisanry program in 1998 as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Textile Design/Weaving in 1976. Ms. Carlson continues an affiliation with UMass/Dartmouth at the Opto-Acoustic Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, researching applica ...

Biography Hussein Chalayan is an internationally-regarded fashion designer who is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitude to new technology. Born in Nicosia, Cyprus, Hussein was educated both in Cyprus and Engalnd. In 1993, his graduate collection from Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design was exhibited in the window of Browns in London; the first student since John Galliano. Hussein began designing commercially in 1994 and in 1 ...

Welcome to my homepage. My space on the world wide web :) I am a graduate student in Computer Engineering at the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering here at Virginia Tech. My area of interest is Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing, more of which you can find here. My advisors are Dr. Jones and Dr. Martin. Take your time and go through my site, which contains some more information about me, my research and my past work experience Please feel free to contact me . Your suggestions and comments are always welcome.

Line Ulrika Christiansen Line Ulrika Christiansen received her bachelor''s degree from Designskolen Kolding in Denmark with a focus on Interactive Multimedia. In spring 1999 she was involved in the production and design of the documentary CD-ROM ''Emotion and immersion in the interactive experience”. From 2000 to 2001 she worked with the architectural and interior company in Copenhagen, MC arkitekter – Moving Concept where she was responsible for graphical presentations and website ...

Brian Patrick Clarkson Personal Information MIT Media Lab E15-383, 20 Ames St. Cambridge MA 02139 USA Phone: +1 617 253 0370 FAX: +1 617 253 8874 e-mail: clarkson@media.mit.edu web: http://www.media.mit.edu/~clarkson Date of Birth: June 7 1975 Citizenship: USA Educational Background Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) PhD in Media Arts and Sciences Advisor: Prof. Alex P. Pentland Thesis: Life Patterns: structure from wearable sensors (2/99 to 9/02) Masters of ...

elise co Bio Elise Co is a doctoral candidate and research assistant at the MIT Media Laboratory, working in the Aesthetics and Computation Group (ACG) under professor John Maeda. Before arriving at the lab, she studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she graduated with a BS in 1998. During her undergraduate career, Elise developed interests in computer science and technology alongside her architectural training; this simultaneous focus on design and computati ...

Grace Colby Senior Advisor Grace Colby is a founder of Art and Technology Group, where she established the design department and served as Vice President of Design. She was a key member of the senior management team that transitioned the company from a small design/technology company of 12 people to a major software product company with over 150 employees. Grace Colby is a graduate of the Media Lab and the prestigious Visible Language Workshop led by Muriel Cooper. Today, Grace brings her combined experience in design, business and technology to a select design technology ventures, including IFM.

Barrett Comiskey Board Member and Asian Business Advisor Barrett Comiskey, a co-founder of E-ink, brings his extensive experience in developing and commercializing new technology and display materials to IFM. After pioneering the original E-ink research at the MIT, he then co-founded E-ink (1997), where he led the development and manufacturing of its electronic ink and took a on business role, structuring major Asian alliances. Barrett speaks French, Spanish, and Mandarin, and has over 24 issued US Patents. He has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal Marketplace, Wired, Fortune, and has recently been selected by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer for 2002.

LIA COOK works in a variety of media; usually combining weaving and painting, photography and digital technology. Her work explores the sensuality of fabric and the human response of touch. Most recently she has been working on a series of large-scale childhood portraits that explore unmediated sensual/emotional experiences. These familiar but sometimes illusive images are embedded in the structure of cloth; up close they dissolve into particles of vibrant color and texture.

about the designer ... Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. She founded the business to create her own "dream job" as a light-up clothing designer. Janet's eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion, art, and technology. She learned to sew at age 7, and installed miniature lights in her own dollhouse. Over the years, her costume-making hobby began to incorporate electronics, with illuminating results. Do you need to be a ...

Richard W. DeVaul MIT Media Lab Wearable Computing Researcher Toshiba Fellow Ph.D. Student, Human Design Alumnus of the Aesthetics and Computation Group I'm a 32 year old Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Lab. I'm working on new human-computer interaction techniques for wearable, mobile, and portable applications. My Ph.D. thesis work is focusing on the use of subliminal visual cues for just-in-time memory support. The short version is that I can improve your performance on a memory recall ta ...

Frances Dorsey Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada Seashell linen, copper wire 10 x 19 x 30 cm 2002 Frances Dorsey, born in 1948, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, holds a MFA, 1991, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; an AOCA, 1989, from Ontario College of Art, Toronto; and a BA, 1971, from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. In 2001 Dorsey received a Canada Council Creation Grant and a Nova Scotia Arts Council Grant. Woven fabric is ordinarily susceptible to gravity and lacks i ...

Expertise Graphic design / web design Education Masters in Interaction Design, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Ivrea, Italy (2004) Bachelor in Design, Visual Communication Department,Belazel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel (1997) Bio In 1999 Tal founded the design studio NastyPixel offering a different approach to web design, branding, motion and interactive games. Concurrently, with two more associates, Tal initiated the online music station www.theplaystation. ...

Emily DuBois Textiles - weaving 583 East H St Benicia, CA 707-745-0829 Born in New York, Emily has been a lecturer at UC Davis and a visiting lecturer at San Francisco State University. Her post graduate studies were at the Indian Institute of Handloom Technology. Her work is well known in the textile field, especially in Asia (Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Emily's work has been shown in Galleries in the United States, Europe and Asia. Collections including her work are IBM; Hewlett Packard; ...

Lucy E Dunne Department of Computer Science, A0.11 University College Dublin, D6 Ireland Phone: +353.87.261.9206, E-mail: lucy.dunne@gmail.com http://www.lucydunne.com Areas of Specialization - Functional Apparel Design - Wearable Technology Publication First Author 2004 ‘Subtle Garment Integration of Technology: A Case Study of the Business Suit’, Proceedings of the First International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing, Bremen, Germany. 2002 ‘Smart Systems: Wearable Integration of ...

Joshua Edmison: Project Description: Design of a simulation framework and prototype of a wearable shape sensing garment for application in situational/context awareness, gait analysis, and gesture movement recognition.

Configurable Computing Lab Christopher Einsmann Position: Graduate Research Assistant - M.S. Academic Status: M.S. Student in Computer Engineering Interests: E-textiles, digital design; snowboarding, soccer, biking Contact: ceinsman@vt.edu

Anders Ernevi technology assistant Electrical Engineering (MSc) pending Anders is about to complete his masterâs degree in electronics at Chalmers University of Technology. He is currently finishing his master's thesis together with Daniel Eriksson (also working at PLAY) at ToyLabs ITR AB. His work at PLAY involves the development of concepts and prototypes designed by other PLAYers. In his spare time Anders is a keen electronics widgeteer and guitarist. He also has a background working at VOL ...

Laura Foster Nicholson, 1982 Fibers BIO Laura Foster Nicholson is a textile artist known for handwoven brocaded tapes-tries. Educated at Kansas City Art Institute (BFA) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA), she has lectured, taught classes & workshops, and exhibited extensively in the US, Canada and Italy. Grants and awards include an NEA fellowship, the Le-one di Pietra prize at the 1985 Venice Biennale of Architecture, three Illinois Arts Council fellowships, and a grant from the Graham Founda ...

Naoto Fukasawa "Good design means not leaving traces of the designer and not overworking the design. If you overdo the desgin it will tough the beholder's consciousness." I think that when people and things are within the boundaries of counsciousness they are at their farthest from heaven." Naoto Fukasawa was the head of IDEO's Tokyo office until early 2003. He now leads his own design studio, also in Tokyo. As a designer, he has created home and office products for NEC, Matsushita, Epson, Muji, and many others, and his "Personal Skies" exhibit was installed at the Museum of Modern Art in 2001. For more samples of Naoto's work see: Without Thought: e-Fashion http://www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=50178

megan lee galbraith exploring fashion design via computational methods & materials current projects twirl 03.18.03 master's thesis: embedded systems for computational garment design elroy 11.26.01 iris 03.31.02 sk1n 03.18.03 fuzzy logic & embeddable devices peppermint 09.13.01 nylon 03.04.02 saturnpants 07.31.02 04.27.03 || wear me rotherham, UK belly 09.28.01 a! diseno guanajuato, mex 09.02.02 lectures workshops & exhibitions 11.18.02 nyc, ny scribble 01.24.02 silhouette 05.22.02

PLSJ is Anne Galloway PhD candidate, technology researcher, ethnographer & designer, raised in the tropics, current inhabitant of Ottawa in the Land of Ice & Snow, lover of avocados and olives, the music of Medeski, Martin & Wood and My Bloody Valentine, strange places, brilliant & otherwise hardcore people This is my research blog, and I also blog at Space and Culture Contact me : anne at plsj dot org Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology 7th Floor, Loeb Building Carleton University 1125 ...

Francine Gemperle (left) is a Design researcher and project leader with the Interaction Design Studio at ICES. She received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon's School of Design in 1996. Francine's interest in humanity is the driving force behind all of her design work.

Ryan Genz Earning his undergraduate degree in the fields of Studio Art and Anthropology from the University of Maine, Ryan was a key figure in the developing media lab ASAP Media Services. Following, he worked several years creating Interface Design, Research, and Information Architecture with Signal Interactive, a leading Chicago development team. Featured Projects Sound Projects Compilation How can the use of sound enhance interactions? Jan, Ryan, Sergio, Livia, Magnus, Deepak, ...

Dr. Tushar K. Ghosh Professor TATM Phone: 919-515-6568 Email: tghosh@tx.ncsu.edu Address: 2401 College of Textiles Box 8301 Room: 3311 Research Interests: Mechanics of fibrous assemblies Electro-Textiles (Fiber/Textile based electrical devices) Design and analysis of technical textiles Dynamics of textile processes Technology of fabric formation in particular, weaving technology Biography: Tushar K. Ghosh, Professor, College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, h ...

// news November 2004: With danah boyd and Michele Chang, I'll be running a workshop called "Representations of Digital Identity" at CSCW 2004 in Chicago. Please submit, if that's your cup of tea. August 2004: I'll be speaking on a panel at DIS called "Designing for Hackability." As well, I'll be presenting some preliminary results from digital street game. I'll be looking at design opportunities in mobile work practices with the Technology and Social Practice group at FXPAL from June until S ...

Claudia Güdel 1972 born in Zurich, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Education / Internships May 2001 Workshop ‘Interactivity as a choreographic phenomenon’ at the choreographic center in Essen, D Jan. 2000 Invitation to the 10. International Zermatt Symposium on ‘Creative Leadership in Economics, Arts and Science’, CH 1998 - 1999 HyperStudio Basel, Multimedia Design & Management, Basel Jan. 30 1998 Diploma of the ...

Michael Hawley, Director of Special Projects and founder of MIT's GO Expeditions program, has a passion for exploration. On the faculty of MIT for nearly a decade, Hawley has worked on a wide array of creative projects with students in Electrical Engineering, and in the Media Lab where he held the Alex. W. Dreyfoos professorship. He cofounded Things That Think, a groundbreaking research program that explores the limitless ways digital media will infuse everyday objects. He also founded and l ...

Franziska Huebler Franziska Huebler received her Diploma in Fine Art from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany. Her interest in computers changed from fine art to science when she enrolled herself in the Computer Science course at the University of Hamburg. Having run her own studio in Hamburg, she moved to New York City where she worked as a Senior Designer for clients such as Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), David Bowie, the New York Yankees, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ...

vitae Education: Masters in HCI (expected on Aug, 2004) Human Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University B.A. in Multimedia Design (Feb, 2003) School of Film & Multimedia, Korean National University of Arts Part-time: March 2003 ~ July 2003 Teacher at Korean Animation High School: Taught ‘Graduation Project’ class November 2002 Web site designer: Participated in a project, Information Standardization Valley’ August 2002 ~ October 2002 ...

Margot Jacobs researcher Industrial Design (BSc), Interaction Design (MPS) Margot is an American interaction design researcher focusing on playful, emotional incorporation of technology in everyday life. She holds a deep interest in developing innovative design methods and experimental prototypes for social interventions in public space. Her previous experience includes a year as research fellow at the interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy. Margot has a bachelor's degree in Industrial Desi ...

Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman, Professor 801 Ferst Drive| Georgia Institute of Technology School of Textile & Fiber Engineering Atlanta, GA 30332-0295 Phone: 404-894-2490 FAX: 404-894-8780 e-mail: sundaresan.jayaraman@tfe.gatech.edu Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman is a Professor of Textile Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He and his research students have made significant contributions in the following areas: (i) Enterprise Architecture and Modeling Methodo ...

Tony Jebara @ Columbia University Computer Science Assistant Professor Computer Science Columbia University Room CEPSR 605 Mail Code 0401 1214 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 Tel: 212-939-7079 Fax: 212-666-0140 jebaraATcs.columbia.edu Office Hours Spring'05 Tu/Th 4pm-5pm CEPSR 605 We don't need to go to space to find intelligent life; it's right at our finger tips. Machines are beginning to learn, perceive and behave more like humans. Our research spans machine learning and computer vision. Applications include behavior modeling, computational biology and HCI. Our lab: Columbia Machine Learning Laboratory Research vision learning behaviour wearables

Mark T. Jones Contact Information: The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 340 Whittemore Hall Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0111 Tel: (540) 231-8849 Fax: (540) 231-8292 E-Mail: mtj@vt.edu Education: B.S., Clemson University, 1986 Ph.D., Duke University, 1990 Positions: Faculty, University of Tennessee 1993-1997 Staff, Argonne National Laboratory 1990-1993 Teaching Interests: Computer networks, computer organization/architectur ...

Chris Kasabach VP of Product Design and Mechanical Development Chris Kasabach leads BodyMedia’s product design and works closely with its partners to define innovation spaces that capitalize on mutual strategic goals. Chris is a pioneer in the field of wearable and mobile product design and interaction. In the early 90’s he led the development of the first user-centered wearable computers at Carnegie Mellon and from 1993-7 co-directed the Mobile and Wearable Computing group at the university’s ...

SHEILA KENNEDY, AIA Principal Sheila Kennedy received the Masters Degree in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she was graduated with Distinction, the Graduate School of Design’s highest Academic Honor. Kennedy’s professional internship was conducted in Switzerland at the office of Mario Campi and at the Boston based firm of Kallmann, McKinnel and Wood. Sheila Kennedy combines professional practice with instruction in architectural design as an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and offers to the firm her design expertise on electrical and information infrastructures and strategic conceptual problem solving.

Andruid Kerne Assistant Professor Texas A&M University andruid@andruid.com (url) http://www.andruid.com Posts to Rhizome 1 Member Since forever Last Updated August 27, 2003 Biography Andruid Kerne creates dynamics of participation through information environments, installations, and performances. He opens the range of social processes embodied by computational artifacts, for instance substantiating play as a mode of activity and interaction. He represents intercultural relationships ...

Dr. Tünde Kirstein Holzmattstrasse 29, 8953 Dietikon, Switzerland Office: +41-1-6325280, home: +41-43-3225475, mobile: +41-79-7968657, tuende@kirsteinhome.de Personal Information Date of birth: 05/26/1972 Place of birth: Geneva, Switzerland Nationality: German Education Dresden University of Technology (Germany) PhD in Textile and Clothing Engineering 07/2001 Thesis: ’Product development for close-fitting garments taking into account the textile material properties’ Hamburg Univers ...

Gerd Kortuem Kortüm kortuem@comp.lancs.ac.uk I am a lecturer in the Computing Department at Lancaster University. Prior to joining Lancaster I received a Ph.D. from University of Oregon for work on Wearable Communities. I also hold a Diploma in Computer Science from University of Stuttgart. Before starting my academic career I worked at Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group in California, Technical University of Berlin, and the now defunct IBM Science Centre in Germany. Events (upcom ...

Susan Kozel: Blending technology and performance For the past 10 years, SFU Surrey Interactive Arts Professor Susan Kozel has created live performances and art installations that merge bodies and computers through dance, digital images, sound and the Web. She says this area of performance differs from other disciplines. “Often we’re figuring out what’s happening while we’re performing,” she explains. “The work is both physical and conceptual at the same time. The philosophy comes out to the pi ...

Barbara Layne combines electronic and material approaches to research in textile arts. Exhibitions include "Fault Lines (collaboration with Ingrid Bachmann), "Electronic Textiles: Hacking the Museum" (England), "webs://textiles and new technology" (California) and Textiles/TECHSTYLES (New York). She has developed several web sites including “Travel Cases” a project for Science Fair: Feminist Interventions in Cyberspace (www.studioxx.org/sciencefair). Recent publications include the essay, “Migra ...

Vincent Leclerc v@uttermatter.com Masters Candidate Tangible Media Group, MIT Media lab investigating the seamless couplings between physicality and virtuality. Research Partner (on leave) XS Labs unravelling extra-soft computation and reactive textile. 2004 deflatables The deflatable series create tangible fluid spaces around the body. inflatables The inflatable series integrate diverse forms of dynamic morphological output to garments. +0 PlusZero is a primitive physical interface u ...

David I. Lehn: Projects: My VT E-Textiles research involves the following: Development of software for an E-Textile service backplane. This involves investigation into a framework to support software which is retargetable to different E-Textile systems. Development of a Ptolemy simulation environment. I've assisted in the creation of a Java JNI interface to the embedded C software. I'm also developing a framework to help automate the generation of Ptolemy models for various E-Textile config ...

Alison Lewis Romantic Technologies: I have a fascination with making technology more approachable and thoughtful. I enjoy working with the positive attributes of being human; for example, the joy of experiencing love, kindness and the ability to non-verbally “connect” with someone. It is important for me to keep pursuing technology and artistic ideas from the standpoint of a feeling human being. We have complicated everyday lives and a fantastic ability for forgiveness and overcoming obstacles. Design and art should speak to our core, embrace this "human" side and bring a positive force into our lives.

Andrew Lippman Senior Research Scientist Director, Digital Life Group: Viral Communications Office: E15-490 Phone: (617) 253-5113 Fax: (617) 258-6264 E-mail: lip@media addresses are formatted username@media.mit.edu URL: http://www.media.mit.edu/~lip Biography Andrew Lippman has a more than thirty-year history at MIT. His work at the Media Lab has ranged from wearable computers to global digital television. Currently, he heads the Lab's Viral Communications program, whi ...

Ivo Locher Research Interests Textile Packaging e-textiles Wearable Computing Speech Processing Contact E-mail ilocher@ife.ee.ethz.ch Phone +41-1-632 76 41 Fax +41-1-632 12 10 Office ETZ H97 Address ETH Zurich Electronics Lab Gloriastrasse 35 CH-8092 Zurich Publications Ivo Locher, Tünde Kirstein and Gerhard Tröster, "Routing Methods Adapted to e-Textiles", 37th International Symposium on Microelectronics (IMAPS 2004), Long Beach CA, Nov 14-18, 2004. Ivo Locher, ...

Biography: Annie Lovejoy - Inter-disciplinary arts & research MA Fine Art in Context (distinction) University of the West of England Artist/ researcher & co-founder of Here nor There (HNT): an international media arts collective (http://www.herenorthere.org) Context & inter-disciplinary collaboration are central to Annie's art practice. Works are produced in response to particular locations or situations, and range across a variety of public art forms - environmental / landwork, installatio ...

Tod Machover has recently been called "brilliantly gifted" by the New York Times and "America's most wired composer" by the Los Angeles Times. His music is highly regarded for breaking traditional artistic and cultural boundaries, offering a unique and innovative synthesis of acoustic and electronic sound, of symphony orchestras and interactive computers, and of operatic arias and rock songs. Machover is also noted for inventing new technology for music, especially his Hyperinstruments that use ...

Blair MacIntyre Assistant Professor Augmented Environments Lab Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280 phone: (404) 894-5224 E-mail: blair AT cc.gatech.edu I have been a faculty member in the Georgia Tech College of Computing and the GVU Center since January 1999, after finishing a PhD in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York City. I direct the Augmented Environments Lab, who ...

Anmol Madan Wearable Computing and Human Design Group MIT Media Lab Concept Car Design with GM and Frank O'Gehry Partners Anmol is a Master's candidate at the Media Lab, MIT. His research interests lie in wearable devices and thier role in social networks, group co-ordination and gaming. He is also interested in adhoc communication between wearables and people using them, and extending these concepts to cars. Projects and Research.. Wearable Computing on MiThril 2003 I've largely been w ...

John Maeda E. Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Associate Professor of Design and Computation Director of the Physical Language Workshop (PLW) Former Director of the Aesthetics & Computation Group (ACG) Additional MIT affiliations: Director of the Information Organized Research Consortium Director of the SIMPLICITY Program Co-Chair, MIT Council on Family and Work non-MIT affiliations: Principal, MAEDASTUDIO MY OWN WORK I have 2 normal books out. The fir ...

Prof. Steve Mann has written 139 research publications (39 journal articles, 37 conference articles, 2 books, 10 book chapters, and 51 patents), and has been the keynote speaker at 24 scientific and industry symposia and conferences and has also been an invited speaker at 52 university Distinguished Lecture Series and colloquia. Steve Mann is considered by many to be the inventor of WearComp (wearable computer) and WearCam (eyetap camera and reality mediator). He is currently a faculty member ...

Diana Marculescu Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Education Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, August 1998 M.S. in Computer Science, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania, June 1991 Research interests Energy Aware Computing Power dissipation has become a critical design concern in recent years, driven by the increased levels of complexity and emergence of mobile applications. Our res ...

Radu Marculescu Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Research interests System-level design methodologies & tools for embedded systems design (all aspects of modeling, performance analysis, synthesis and optimization) Systems-On-Chip (SOCs) and Networks-On-Chip (NOCs) CAD tools for low-power design of VLSI systems (probabilistic modeling, analysis, and optimization) Ambient intelligence Publications After 2000 SLD rese ...

Tom Martin Office: 2040-D Torgersen Mailing Address: 340 Whittemore (0111) Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 Tel: (540) 231-1739 Fax: (540) 231-3362 Email: tlmartin@vt.edu Title: Assistant Professor Education: Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999 M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1994 B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1992 Teaching Interests: Wearable and ubiquitous computing, Digital design Research Interests: Low power, mobile, and wearable computing

[Benoît Maubrey - Die Audio Gruppe | Bahnhofstrasse 47 | D-14806 Baitz | T++49-33841-8265 | F++49-33841-33121 | email maubrey@snafu.de ] CURRICULUM VITAE of Benoît Maubrey / DIE AUDIO GRUPPE -- born in 1952 in Washington, DC. -- 1975 Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University -- lives in the Berlin area since 1980. -- since 1985, Benoit's performances at international festivals and conferences, such as ARS ELECTRONICA, (Linz, Austria), ISEA (Chicago, Sydney, Helsinki), Intercommuunicati ...

Ramia Mazé studio director, researcher Architecture (BA), Interaction Design (MA) I am an interaction designer focusing on user-centred methods and strategies for prototyping new systems, products, and concepts. Currently director of the PLAY studio of the Interactive Institute in Sweden, I am involved in EU and interdisciplinary research collaborations and have tutored in the new postgraduate interaction design program at Chalmers University of Technology. Previously, I worked at MetaDesign ...

Brian Mila Wearable Computers This is my ongoing research into the usability of wearable computers. My current focus is to make wearable computers more useable. Currently, most research in the field of wearable computing is done, well, by researchers. In the world of academia, usability often takes a backseat to the more "fun" problems that deal with integrating new hardware or developing new algorithms for data processing. Researchers also tend to have a very forward-looking mindset. Often t ...

Dianna Miller Dianna Miller has developed interfaces for interactive TV applications at Microsoft WebTV, MetaTV, and iSurfTV. As a consultant, she created Web sites and content strategy for companies such as Apple, Viacom, and Disney. She has a BFA in Art Media Studies (Film/Video) from Syracuse University. Featured Projects Sound Projects Compilation How can the use of sound enhance interactions? Jan, Ryan, Sergio, Livia, Magnus, Deepak, Rikako, Natasha, Dianna, Rajesh, ...

Bill Moggridge is responsible for the San Francisco location of IDEO, for proposing new directions for the company and for international services. After training in industrial design in London, Bill's first professional experience was in the USA. He returned to London to found his own company, Moggridge Associates, building a product design and development company with clients worldwide, and joining David Kelley to form IDEO in 1991. The company now has 330 employees and includes Industrial De ...

Artist Bio Mariko Mori, born in Tokyo, was educated at the Chelsea College of Art, London (1989-92) and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. She has had recent solo exhibitions and installations at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Centre Georges Ponpidou, Paris; Prada Foundation, Milan; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Serpentine Gallery, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; ...

katherine moriwaki Ph.D. Candidate, University of Dublin, Trinity College Networks and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Advisor: Dr. Linda E. Doyle Managing Editor: Crossings Electronic Journal of Art and Technology University of Dublin, Trinity College Lecturer // 2002 - 2004 MPhil. Music and Media Technologies, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Dublin, Trinity College ...

Virginia Tech E-Textiles Laboratory Zahi Nakad: Project Description: Novel deployment techniques for electronics are always sought. The huge advancement in the textiles industry and the accurate control on the manufacturing process coupled with its low-cost offer an innovative environment for new electronic systems. The abundance of fabrics in our daily life offers immense possibilities for electronic integration both in wearable and large-scale applications. The project in study is the creat ...

Gauri Nanda Gauri Nanda works in design and engineering. She is currently leading several projects at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. She is 25. Recent Publications "bYOB [Build Your Own Bag]: A Computationally-Enhanced Modular Fabric-Based System" MUM 2004 Proceedings (pdf) Contact Gauri Nanda MIT Media Lab E15-357 20 Ames Street Cambridge, MA + 617 388 4736 nanda@media.mit.edu

Natalia Allen [vita] Compelled to part with her concentration in oncology, Natalia Allen an avid surfer enrolled in Parsons School of Design. She paralleled her design studies with scholar courses in philosophy at the Graduate Faculty School of Social Research. Early on Allen landed a score of design awards, including Parsons Designer of the Year. Her work has focused on the development of functional and beautifully designed apparel and products that utilize technology to improve form. This wor ...

Anne Niemetz Coming up: EZTV and Crazy Space Present "Hacking the Timeline - A non-definitive history of digital art". OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 6-10PM: Documentation of works by REBECCA ALLEN, NANCY BUCHANAN AND BARBARA SMITH, JEFF BURK and RUTH WEST/Ecce Homology and hypermedia studio, LOS CYBRIDS, THE ELECTRIC CAFÉ, DAVID EM, and SCOTT HESSELS of the Damaged Californians, OSMAN KHAN, TIMOTHY LEARY, TONY LONGSON, CYTHNIA MAUGHAN, ANNE NIEMETZ, CASEY REAS of Group C, EDDO ...

MAGGIE ORTH, PhD Founder and Chief Executive Officer Maggie Orth is an artist and technolgist who designs and invents interactive textiles in Cambridge MA. She received her Phd. in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab in June 2001. Her academic work at the Media Lab (1997-2001) included patents, research, publications and design in new physical interfaces, wearable computing, electronic textiles, and interactive textile musical instruments. Prior to ...

Stijn Ossevoort Stijn studied both engineering and art related design. He completed an MSc in Industrial Product Design at Delft University and an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London. His work has been as diverse as his academic background, from interactive jewellery to pieces for public sculptures, and has been published in the Independent, Form magazine, INview and ZOO. At the moment he consults for Ron Arad, Philips, Canary Warf and the National Trust in London and is a part time teacher at Central Saint Martins in London on drawing and design related topics. Featured Projects Wearable Dreams Can we use wearable electronic devices to portray our feelings and propagate our personality?

Despina Papadopoulos is the founder of Studio 5050. Despina has been working as an interactive designer and inventor with the Studio since its founding in 1995. A graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and with an M.A in Philosophy, she has lectured on wearable computing and its uses in everyday life, at NYU, Parsons School of Design, Ivrea Design Institute and the Jan van Eyck Academie as well as numerous conferences. Her work has appeared in publications and magazines around the world. Projects she developed for Interval Research Corporation and NCR’s The Knowledge Lab have been awarded a total of 5 patents.

Helena Papadopoulos Helena Papadopoulos studied History of Art at the Courtauld and the RCA, London and spent the better part of the past ten years as a writer, critical theorist and independent curator on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the editor of strippedbare, a new bimonthly mag focusing on new art and ideas, a director of Nice & Fit, a Berlin based contemporary art project space, and a partner of Studio5050. helena@5050ltd.com

Joseph Paradiso joined the MIT Media Laboratory in 1994, where he is now an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences directing the Responsive Environments Group, which explores the development and application new sensing modalities and enabling technologies that create new forms of interactive experience and expression. He is an expert on sensing technology for human-computer interfaces, having developed and fielded a wide variety of systems that track human activity using electric field s ...

Sungmee Park Georgia Institute of Technology School of Textile&Fiber Engineering Tel: 404-894-2494 / Fax: 404-894-8780 E-mail: sp36@prism.gatech.edu EDUCATION M.S. in the field of Textile Engineering, March, 1995 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Thesis: Role of Fiber Properties and Fabric-Structure on Fabric Hand M.F.A. in Textiles (Specialization: Weaving), March, 1993 Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia Thesis: The Composition of Pojagi and Color Combinat ...

Isabel Pedersen M.A., Ph.D. Isabel's PhD research involves conceptualizing the interface for wearable computers and augmented reality interfaces drawing upon rhetoric, social semiotics, and metaphor theory. It offers a new human-centric paradigm for wearable augmented reality interface design (dissertation abstract). Wearable Computers bring about a unique mobile computing experience. Designers need to study human sign systems in order to originate wearable designs. A humanistic mobile inter ...

Alex (Sandy) Pentland Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Group: Human Dynamics Office: E15-383 Phone: (617) 253-0648 Fax: (617) 258-6264 E-mail: sandy@media addresses are formatted username@media.mit.edu URL: http://www.media.mit.edu/~sandy Biography Alex "Sandy" Pentland heads the Media Lab's Human Dynamics research group. His work encompasses areas such as wearable computing, communications technology for developing countries, human-machine interfaces, artifici ...

About Asha Textile technologist, designer and University Research Fellow with a string of global patents for textile innovations in her name, Asha Peta Thompson researched tools for learning working with educationalists, health care professionals, schools and care centres, suppliers and manufacturers of toys and games, the global textile industry, children, adults, parents and carers, for more than a decade before launching this unique range of teaching and learning aids for individual purchase ...

Lisa Lee Peterson, associate professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, directs the Woven Textile Design Program at Purdue University. Before coming to Purdue, Lisa lived in New York City, working first as an intern with Jack Lenor Larsen, and then as a designer and production facilitator for Jacquard-woven textiles for interiors with Boris Kroll Fabrics. Woven Textile Design majors will also study with Art & Design faculty in the design (industrial, interior, and visual communications) and studio (fine arts and photography) areas. e-textiles, work selected to be included in cd-rom of work by artists using computerized Jacquard technology, Montréal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Montréal, Canada

Rehmi Post is a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory in the Physics and Media group directed by Neil Gershenfeld. His academic career started as a Kelly Scholar at the University of Maryland, where he helped implement a large multicomputer architecture under the direction of Charles Rieger and Mark Weiser. In a subsequent tour of the computer software industry he developed compilers and interpreters for distributed computing environments and contributed to the first commercial TCP/IP pr ...

Meghan Quirk Position: Graduate Research Assistant - M.S. Academic Status: M.S. Student in Computer Engineering Interests: Hiking, reading, travel Info: Working in the e-Textiles lab. Contact: quirk@vt.edu

Dr. Mary Lynn Realff Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Affairs 801 Ferst Drive Georgia Institute of Technology School of Textile & Fiber Engineering Atlanta, GA 30332-0295 Phone: 404-894-2496 FAX: 404-894-9766 e-mail: marylynn.realff@tfe.gatech.edu Dr. Mary Lynn Realff, an Associate Professor of Textile & Fiber Engineering, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the mechanics of textile structures and polymer science areas. Dr. Realff has made a significant contr ...

Johan Redström researcher Informatics (PhD), Cognitive Science (BSc) Johan Redström has an educational background in philosophy, cognitive science, and music. He did his PhD studies in philosophy, and received a PhD in Informatics on interaction design from Göteborg University, Sweden. He has worked as a researcher at the Viktoria Institute, and then at the Interactive Institute, where he is currently active as senior researcher. He has extensive experience in developing, conducting and leadin ...

Francesca Rosella Francesca has a B.A. in Fine Arts and a M.A. in Interior Architecture from the Istituto Europeo di Design (1997). She worked for major companies such as Valentino and Esprit De Corp. until last October and she is now launching her own company FRD-Interactive. She loves to study people''s behaviours and emotions to develop wearable computers related to communication, video gaming and entertainment. Ribbon Light in movement Francesca F+R Hugs How to feel the closeness of a distant loved one? Francesca, Rikako Tofu Boxes What is the potential of haptic technology within interaction design? Francesca, Rikako, Jeremy, Jan, Dianna, Simona, Line Ulrika, Livia, Oscar

Rikako Sakai Rikako Sakai received her B.A. degrees in Industrial design from the Tama Art University at Tokyo in 1993. Her research focused on a clarification of information elements and effects. In 1993, she joined Canon Inc. as an industrial designer. At Canon she has been involved in many stages of product development include human factor research, concept making, user observations, design and prototyping, usability testing, standardisation of UI and making design guidelines. She decided to ...

Nitin Sawhney completed his doctoral dissertation from MIT on January 2003. He has been a research assistant at the MIT Media Laboratory since 1996 and was awarded the Martin Fellowship for Sustainability with the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment in 2002-2003. His research interests include Pervasive Computing, machine learning, CSCW and HCI. He often works in challenging interdisciplinary areas at the intersection of computation, design and social sciences. Nitin's doctoral thesi ...

BIOGRAPHY Thecla Schiphorst is a computer media artist, theorist, educator, computer systems designer, choreographer, and dancer. She is a member of the design team that has developed Life Forms, the computer compositional tool for choreography, and has been working with the world renowned choreographer, Merce Cunningham in New York City for the past seven years, supporting his creation of new dance using Life Forms. Thecla still travels with Cunningham to work with him and Life Forms in inter ...

Cynthia Schira THE ARTIST & HER BACKGROUND Cynthia Schira has her master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Kansas, on whose faculty she served until her retirement. She also completed her undergraduate work at the Rhode Island School of Design and studied in France. In addition to the Wichita Art Museum, her work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chicago Art Institute, and many others. Schira says she values textiles bec ...

Steven J. Schwartz Research Scientist 1998 - 2002 Visiting Scientist 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Media Laboratory Steven Schwartz General Dynamics 400 Red Brook Blvd Owings Mills, MD 21117 contact Steve Schwartz http://www.gd.com/ Selected Research Projects MIThril: the next generation research platform for wearable computing using context awareness Link to MIThril story on Slashdot: http://www.wearablegroup.org/news/2000/10/slashdot-iswc2000.html WearArm: ...

Anurag Sehgal (India) people.interaction-ivrea.it/a.sehgal Expertise Fashion design, interaction design, wearables, ubiquitous computing Education B.A. in Fashion Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India (2001) Bio With a background in fashion design and a graduation project on wearable electronics, Anurag was quickly absorbed into The Crossing Project, a research initiative of Xerox PARC and Interaction-Ivrea Explorer Ranjit Makkuni. His work there concentrated on ...

Sabine Seymour email:sabine@moondial.com Sabine Seymour's research focuses on the process of interdisciplinary design and the creation of an integrated user experience. Her work is based on the convergence of fashion, wearable & wireless technologies, design, and architecture in particular in the areas of extreme sport and fashion/style. Sabine is a Design Fellow and Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design; and a member of the Committee for Wearable Technology. The studios sched ...

Configurable Computing Lab Tanwir Sheikh Position: Former Research Assistant - M.S. Academic Status: M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Completed 2003 Interests: Analog and Digital Design, Testing and Instrumentation Info: M.S. Thesis: Modeling of Power Consumption and Fault Tolerance for Electronic Textiles Contact: tanwir@vt.edu

Ravi Shenoy: Project Description: My focus is on "Acoustic Beam Forming" for the large scale fabric and to express accuracy of the obtained Line of bearing (LOB) as a function of Sampling rate, placement of sensors, number of sensors per cluster, and frequency of the acoustic source. Simulations were carried out in Ptolemy. Currently I am working on building a Prototype - Vest which can process speech signals (estimate angle of arrival) for future applications. I am also involved in building a complete simulator for the large scale fabric.

Name: Daniel P. Siewiorek Daniel P. Siewiorek dps@cs.cmu.edu Director Human-Computer Interaction Institute Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Buhl University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Mailing Address: dps@cs.cmu.edu Room 3519 Newell-Simon Hall Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 USA Phone: (Voice) 412-268-2570 (FAX) 412-268-1266 (FAX) 412-268-5576 Secretary: Laura Forsyth Lau ...

David Slocombe Dave received his B.A. honors in Design Futures from the University of Wales College, Newport in 2000. This degree spans many areas of product interaction design within the context of social, cultural and political scenario creation. During this time Dave also worked as Head Product Designer for Roberts Technologies, designing and prototyping full scale working models of television and home entertainment systems. Since his graduation Dave has been working for Ragdoll Ltd as a Pro ...

Prof. Michie Sone -PANELIST- Director of Bunka Fashion Business School (Professor of Bunka Fashion College) *Profile Prof. Sone received a degree in design from the Bunka Fashion College in 1959 and took a position in this college in the same year. In 1964, she was awarded the Namiki Grand Prize for Design. She established and was appointed director of the Department of Apparel Merchandising in this college in 1980, and was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to conduct research of dev ...

Thad Starner Thad Starner is an Assistant Professor in Georgia Tech's College of Computing, where he founded and directs the Contextual Computing Group. Thad holds four degrees from MIT, including his PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory in 1999. Starner was an Associate Scientist with BBN's Speech Systems Group in 1993 when he created one of the earliest high-accuracy on-line cursive handwriting recognition systems. Starner is one of the pioneers of wearable computing and has authored over 70 sci ...

Ivo Stivoric Chief Technology Officer John (Ivo) Stivoric is CTO and Director for BodyMedia. He leads the Advanced Development efforts and directs BodyMedia's Intellectual Property portfolio. Ivo is also a core member of the company's Strategic Alliances and Corporate Strategy Teams. Formerly President, Chief Invention Officer, and co-founder of SANDbOX Advanced Development, he holds an M.S. in Interaction Design, with a concentration in integrated product development and a B.F.A. in Industria ...

Henry B. (Hank) Strub My specialty is User Centered Design, to help people understand how to use and to do things. For products, this helps people experience more enjoyment using them, with less frustration, and less need for support. For companies, a high quality user experience will contribute to your bottom line. I am currently employed full-time for a software design consultancy, Electronic Ink, located in Philadelphia. Interaction Design / Information Architecture Informal & formal ...

Michael Sung Wearables Lab/Human Dynamics Group MIT Media Laboratory E15-384b, 20 Ames Street Cambridge, MA 02139 msung @ media . mit . edu Background I'm currently a Ph.D student with the Wearables Group, part of the Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. My current research interests encompass biomedical applications of wearable computing, including remote ambulatory health monitoring and multi-modal physiologic sensing for applications such as behavior profiling, social int ...

Jeremy Tai Abbett Jeremy was most recently at Fallon Advertising/ Duffy Design in New York as their Interactive Creative Director before choosing to take a sabbatical and focus on dynamic information design and wearable technology at Interaction Ivrea. Before that he left Fork Unstable Media, a Hamburg, Germany based award-winning design agency. Abbett founded the agency in 1996. His work has been recognized in design award shows such as I.D. Magazine, the One Show, New York Art Directors Club, ...

about me i'm an artist/desiger/geek based in Los Angeles, California. i have also lived in San Francisco and San Diego. my current obsessions are mainly in light and metalsmithing, and sometimes fashion and art/technology. my previous obsessions include photography, film, video, neon, ceramics, kinetic art, event planning, web/info design. i am almost obsessed with keeping up on emerging technologies and scientific discoveries. this blog is a photographic log of the things i find interesting so i can keep track of them.

Jenny Tillotson is a Senior Research Fellow in the sensory, aroma and medical field in Fashion & Textiles Design at the Central Saint Martins Innovation Centre and Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology (FIoN). She gained her BA in Fashion Communication & Promotion from Central Saint Martins and a PhD at the Royal College of Art on Interactive Olfactory Surfaces supported by a documentary film: “The Wellness Collection - A Science Fashion Story” Tillotson is a pioneer of computerised scent-o ...

Prof. Gerhard Tröster Research Interests Wearable Computing Personal Healthcare Electronic Textiles Digital Systems and Computer Architectures Multichip Modules, Electronics Packaging Digital Signal Processing and Mechatronics Contact E-mail troester@ife.ee.ethz.ch Phone +41-1-632 3964 Fax +41-1-632 1210 Office ETZ H89 Address ETH Zurich Electronics Lab Gloriastrasse 35 CH-8092 Zurich Publications Sailer, T., Tröster, G., "An Efficient VLSI Archi ...

FRANO VIOLICH, AIA Principal Frano Violich received the Masters Degree in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he was graduated with Distinction, the Graduate School of Design’s highest Academic Honor. Violich worked in Switzerland in the office of Theo Holtz and was Associate in Charge of Design at the Office of Don Hisaka in Cambridge. Frano Violich conducts design research on contemporary building materials with industrial manufacturers, students and univers ...

Sigurd Wagner Professor of Electrical Engineering Ph.D. 1968, University of Vienna I am working on devices, processes, and materials for large-area electronics, which is also called macroelectronics or giant electronics. Macroelectronics includes flat panel displays, rigid, flexible or foldable, electronics shaped to cover irregular surfaces, electronic skin and e-textiles. My active device technology is based on thin-film silicon. My research interests stem from a career that began at the B ...

Muriel Waldvogel visual designer and architect Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies Waldvogel received her BA from Barnard College, and her master’s in architecture and PhD in visual design from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). She is an architect and a specialist on the senses of perception as they relate to the digital realm. Her work explores the nature of multi-sensory experiencing and expression, with a particular focus on the feelings, ...

Dr. Sha Xin Wei Trained in mathematics at Harvard and Stanford Universities, specializing in differential geometry. He taught mathematics in both traditional and experimental curricula at Stanford for five years (1979-1984). In the subsequent decade he worked in the fields of scientific computation, mathematical modeling, and the visualization of scientific data and of topological and geometric structures. After 1993, he extended his work to distributed media authoring systems, such as the Me ...

Artist: Wendy Ruth Weiss Wendy Weiss: Designing the weave on computer Wendy Ruth Weiss has taught in the Textiles, Clothing Design department of the University Nebraska-Lincoln since 1986. In addition to teaching, she is the director of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery. In her studio work, Weiss uses textiles to create environments for the viewer to move through. She often collaborates with dancer/choreographer Joan Stone, to create dances specifically for the artwork and more recently is working with musician Jay Kreimer to embed sound in the sculpture.

Liz Williamson Training Bachelor of Education and Commerce, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Vic., 1967-70; Handloom weaving course, Melbourne College of Textiles, Melbourne, Vic., 1978-80; Tapestry weaving course, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Vic., 1980; Bachelor of Art (Textile Design), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Vic., 1981-83. Related professional experience Lecturer, Textiles Workshop, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra, ...

Tricia Wilson-Nguyen Tricia Wilson-Nguyen has interests that span the gap between embroidery of the past and technology of the present. As an engineer, Wilson-Nguyen has been part of a small group of scientists and artists who have pioneered the new field of electronic textiles. Her research into historic metal thread embroidery has inspired art and product lines that incorporate metal fibers and electronics to render the textile "active." Wilson-Nguyen is also a needlework designer and the owner of Thistle Threads, a firm that specializes in historically inspired needle art. A resident of Massachusetts, she lectures and conducts workshops around the country.

Rachel J. Wingfield loop.ph loop was established in February 2003 by Rachel Wingfield to explore reactive surfaces in the built environment. Rachel Wingfield creates reactive, luminous surfaces and objects through the use of new technologies enabling familiar products to take on a new dimension. Under the name loop Rachel Wingfield launched Digital Dawn, a reactive window lamp at 100% Design in London September where loop was short listed for best new comer 2003 in the 100% Design Blueprint A ...

Fabian Winkler, Design|Media Arts, UCLA current projects: DIELECTRIC clink! EN ROUTE The Poly-sensing Environment 1.89 database Shake and Shiver teaching: Fall01-Winter03 class projects: Fall01/Winter02 HfG/ZKM projects, 1997-2001

Linda Worbin (m. Melin) researcher Textile Design (MA) Linda is a textile designer exploring how the properties of information technology and traditional textiles are combined together in new interactive materials. Her focus is on aesthetic patterns as they are built up by dynamic and information properties. Her educational background comes from the Swedish School of Textiles at the University College of Borås, and she has completing her master’s thesis within the IT + Textiles project. Her ul ...

Ken Yokomizo Address: via Malnati 3 Milano MI Country: Italy Postcode: 20148 Tel: 0039 0236534634 Fax: 0039 0236534634 Email: info@yokomizoken.com Web: http://www.yokomizoken.com Company Profile Ken Yokomizo is a Milan-based designer; specialist for product development and strategic design. Currently being invited to several exhibitions in Europe and Japan. This year at 100% design, a new LED product, which is the second product in a series of "Weair", will be showcased. It is the product to diversify your life with the concept of finding new relations between things, erasing already existed boundaries.

about YOUNGHUI Younghui Kim is the Chief Creative Officer and a Co-founder of MISSING PIXEL. A visual artist and an interactive designer/art director, Younghui brought quality design into Missing Pixel's work. For past 12 years, Younghui has been dedicated to designing rich experiences in various forms of media, ranging from print and environmental graphics to interactive media such as DVDs, CD-ROMs, Web sites and online multimedia applications and installations. Younghui always seeks ...

Biography Amy M. Youngs is an artist who creates mixed-media, interactive sculptures and digital media works that explore the complex relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self. She has exhibited her works nationally and internationally at venues such as Pace Digital Gallery (New York, NY), the Biennale of Electronic Arts (Perth, Australia), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, Spain), Centro de Cultura (G ...

Bhakti Ziek Bhakti is a studio weaver working in her solar, straw-bale home in New Mexico. She has exhibited her weaving extensively for twenty-five years. Recent venues include e-textiles, which traveled in Canada, Australia and the United States for three years; Philadelphia Narratives at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia; and Textiles Two Thousand and Two, at the Center for Creative studies in Detroit. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, N ...