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.
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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.
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By visiting the exhibition “A House Full of Music” revolving around John Cage at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, inspiration hit me. I recreated mesmerizing animations by Marcel Duchamp in the browser.
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I am a transdisciplinary design researcher at the Department of Design at Aalto University and the Social Computing Group at the University of Helsinki, working at the intersection of HCI, futures studies, and the political dimensions of digital technologies. My work is defined by methodological agility and innovation — moving between psychological, social-scientific, and artistic approaches across domains as varied as web and UX design, automotive interfaces, dress culture, and digital politics. I am particularly interested in how sociotechnical imaginaries and ideologies shape the technologies we live with, and in developing new methods to bring anticipatory and critical perspectives into design and technology innovation. Find my publications on Google Scholar.
Postdoctoral Researcher