With my defense ended a journey that had started with building an LED top-hat years before and the question what would happen if others could remotely control my appearance. In Finland, doctoral graduates receive a top hat as a symbol of their degree, which closes this cycle also metaphorically. My doctoral research investigated how technology might alter our everyday attire and how this will change the way we interact with each other. Imagine clothing and accessories that not only give comfort and reflect your style but respond to your emotions, social contacts, and online media.

Global challenges call for rapid methods that support long-term thinking. We developed Future Ripples, a workshop for innovation teams to map out the consequences of their work. Our method structures the foresight process of scanning, framing and futuring through the metaphor of scanning a shore, choosing a pebble and creating ripples. Beyond its practical use, our method develops anticipatory capacities through structured futuring.

Will we in the future wear Memes? Nordic students already do. Despite two decades of HCI research on social wearables, we are yet to see widespread adoption. In our generative design research, we investigate the use of social wearables in the students’ practice of wearing and adorning boiler suits. We found a variety of social interactions, including spamming and digital memes, as a concept for designers.

In a week-long workshop we – Patrycja Zdziarska, Walther Jensen and me – designed Hooze: A Kinetic Fashion Accessory for Touch and Play. We presented our work on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2019.

In a year-long study, we observed an agile software development team to understand how it establishes security practices following a security consultancy. This included in-situ observation at a security workshop and interviews with developers and management. In our long paper for CSCW 2017 we found that the consultancy helped build understanding, but was not sufficient to shift organizational routines.

I design and created a responsive artist page for singer-songwriter The Trees like Torches at trees.liketorch.es.

After a lack of electronics projects, I had the idea to experiment with the WiFi enabled ESP8266 chip. For a highly creative music festival I visited in summer 2016, I had the idea of using a LED-tophat as an entertainment wearable, but also experiment with social dynamics in a festival crowd.

Dorsal Haptic Display is an automotive interface questioning how we perceive a car’s surroundings. Motors in a car seats backrest stimulate the driver’s back with a projection of rear obstacles. We conducted a first user study to prove basic functionality and presented our results at AutomotiveUI 2015 in Nottingham, UK, in September.

On behalf of LEISE – Integrated Design Studio I created various interactive applications for the exhibition “Faszination Farbe” at Carl-Bosch-Museum in Heidelberg. The exhibits explain in various ways the history, physics and curiosities around color and now tours Germany for some years.

In the last six months Thomas and I worked on our Master thesis. We digged deep into shape-changing interfaces, embodied cognition and perceptual motor skills and the relevance for automotive design. During our research we visited TEI 2014 and developed a little prototype to demonstrate one of our concepts. On Tuesday (29.04.14) we finally presented our colloquium and are very pleased about the outcome.