Workshop Organisers

Jared Donovan is a postdoctoral researcher at the SPIRE centre at the University of Southern Denmark where he teaches Interaction Design and User-Centered Design.

Laurens Boer is a PhD student at the SPIRE centre at the University of Southern Denmark. His PhD research is concerned with Ethnographic Provocations. He has a background in Interaction Design.

Anijo Mathew is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. After his professional BArch from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, he went on to complete an MDesS from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Prior to joining ID, he was a tenure track Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University's College of Architecture, Art, and Design (CAAD) where he taught in the graduate program and led the interaction design track at the Design Research and Informatics Lab (DRIL). He is currently working on a PhD at the Open University under Yvonne Rogers and Peter Lloyd in the UK. His PhD research explores the intersection of computing and design in urban learning environments. Anijo Mathew's research interests include interactive (computer mediated) spaces, immersive/responsive environments, environmental behavior, and HCI in the design process. His research falls within two broad categories - one a scholarship of pedagogy: looking at various methods and design mechanisms for the process of design; and the other a scholarship of research: evaluating new semantic appropriations of architecture (place) as enabled by new technologies. Anijo is currently working on a grant from AutoDesk Labs (with Martin Thaler) to evaluate and understand the various ways in which prototyping is engaged in the design process. As part of this initiative, he teaches several classes at the Institute of Design around Prototyping for Interactions. His work has earned international repute in organizations such as SIGCHI, ACADIA, and ARCC. In 2007 the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) selected him as their New Researcher of the Year for 2006-07.

Tom MacTavish is a visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Design and teaches courses related to Interaction Design history, theory, and practice. He holds Master’s Degrees from the University of Michigan (Library and Information Science) and University of Iowa (English) with a Bachelor’s Degree (English) from Central Michigan University. For the past nine years, he directed Motorola Labs’ Center for Human Interaction Research with research laboratories in Phoenix (AZ), Schaumburg (IL), and Shanghai (China). In prior years, he led the Human Interface Technology Center based in Atlanta (GA) for NCR Corporation and served as Director of Engineering for NCR’s Wireless Communications and Networking engineering group in Utrecht, The Netherlands. As a member of the Human/Computer Interaction research community, Tom has participated in the full range of product conceptualization and development phases including strategy formulation, user and technology research, concept development, and product implementation. These activities resulted in delivered projects and products using many methods and technologies including recognition technologies (handwriting, speech, and image), interaction technologies (synthetic speech, multimodal interaction, and context aware systems) and experience design and prototyping (design research, user centered design, usability evaluations, and rapid prototyping). Tom has maintained strong ties to university research has served as corporate liaison and advisor to the IIT Institute of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology.