I hold the position of Associate Professor in Design and Human Computer Interaction, and the A. Nico Habermann Junior Faculty Chair in the School of Computer Science.
Interaction designers are concerned with designing product dialogues — the potential to engage people in user-product interactions — and potentially, to create experiences. We study how people experience each other and the world through the mediating influence of products, and how designed artifacts are situated in society and culture.
While the scope of our discipline relates to any of a number of artifacts, services, and environments within the world, interaction design problems continue to become more complex and dynamic as technology shrinks in size and becomes more powerful and more ubiquitous. These problems, and the social and cultural issues surrounding them, form some of my core research interests.
My specific contributions to the field of interaction design have begun to examine aesthetic and social notification systems ranging from peripheral displays to robots that work with people. There are both theoretical and practical components to this work — practice builds theory, and theory is tested in practice. My theoretical work seeks to build the discipline of interaction design, and to help the community at large generate tools, methods, and processes for its practice. My interaction design practice brings theoretical ideas into action and the creation of a range of tools, products and experiences. Each of these efforts represents a step forward in defining the discipline of interaction design and design research.
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Copyright 2009 Jodi Forlizzi.