The Interaction-Attention Continuum: Considering Various Levels of Human Attention in Interaction Design
Saskia Bakker
www.saskiabakker.com
Industrial Design department, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Saskia Bakker is an assistant professor in the Industrial Design department of the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2015, she held a visiting lectureship at the University College London Interaction Center. She obtained her PhD in 2013 from the Eindhoven University of Technology for a dissertation entitled “Design for Peripheral Interaction”. With a background in industrial design, her expertise sits in research-through-design in the areas of tangible interaction, peripheral interaction and classroom technologies. Saskia is a co-organizer of international workshops on peripheral interaction and a member of the steering committee of the conference series on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI).
Karin Niemantsverdriet
Industrial Design department, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Netherlands
Karin Niemantsverdriet is a PhD student in the Industrial Design department of the Eindhoven University of Technology. After obtaining her MSc degree in 2014, she started her PhD project in collaboration with Koninklijke Philips N.V. on multi-user interaction with domestic lighting systems. Karin takes a research-through-design approach in her work, lead by explorative design cases and in-context evaluations. Her interests include multi-user interaction, shared environments, awareness systems and tangible interaction.