Exploring the Composite Intentionality of 3D Printers and Makers in Digital Fabrication
Sowmya Somanath
Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Sowmya Somanath is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, where she leads the Creative Experiences Lab (celab.cs.uvic.ca) and co-leads the Victoria Interactive Experiences with Information Lab (vixi.cs.uvic.ca). Her research is focused on leveraging and extending the richness and situatedness of people’s physical interactions with objects, other agents and technologies. She studies, designs and evaluates novel interactive experiences that can help diverse people accomplish embodied tasks in creative and/or safe ways.
Ron Wakkary
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada / Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Canada
Ron Wakkary is a Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, where he is the founder of the Everyday Design Studio (eds.siat.sfu.ca). In addition, he is a professor in Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. His research investigates the changing nature of design and human-computer interaction in response to new understandings of human-technology relations and posthumanism. Wakkary is the author of the book, Things we could design: For more than human-centered worlds (MIT Press, 2021).
Omid Ettehadi
Faculty of Graduate Studies, Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto, Canada
Canada
Omid Ettehadi is an HCI researcher fascinated by new technologies, specifically how these tools can bring back control to the users and enhance their learning capabilities from their daily activities. Omid did his graduate studies at OCAD University, where he focused on using digital fabrication tools to facilitate experiences where end-users can use advanced documentation to improve their self-reflection on their making activities.
Henry Lin
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Canada
Henry Lin is a designer, fabricator, and maker at heart. Currently, he uses interdisciplinary knowledge to explore the bound of using digital fabrication and other prototyping techniques for research and physical model-making. Henry did his graduate study in Everyday Design Studio in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research focused on how to design electronics from the perspective of a research product, where research objects were used for long-term deployment.
Armi Behzad
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Canada
Armi Behzad is a graduate student at the Everyday Design Studio in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. As an interdisciplinary design researcher, she is interested in more-than-human design as a new approach to exploring new methods for driving innovation and technological change toward a more diverse, inclusive, and sustainable world. Armi brings her critical thinking, design, and technical skills into her research and practice from her background and experience in architecture and creative technologies.
Jordan Eshpeter
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Canada
Jordan Eshpeter is a Ph.D. student at the Everyday Design Studio in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research explores more-than-human approaches to design ethics. Currently, Jordan is focusing on how ethics are negotiated, distributed, and enacted in the everyday practices of digital product design. His interest in design ethics and practice are motivated by his professional experiences as a leader and practitioner at digital product design studios.
Doenja Oogjes
Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Canada
Doenja Oogjes is a design researcher interested in indirect, accidental, surprising, and overlooked ways designed things mediate the everyday. She explores more-than-human thinking in design, currently focusing on textile fabrication. Doenja uses research-through-design, speculative design, and first-person design approaches. She is an Assistant Professor at the department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, and completed her Ph.D. research at Simon Fraser University.