Programme
Here’s the latest batch of confirmed presentations, including the opening and closing keynotes, 18 parallel presentations, and most of the interactive demos.
all (33) business (7) design (16) psychology (9) social (17) research (11) ubiquity (12)
All sessions on 'psychology'
Engaging With the Future Differently – From Pyramids to Pancakes Keynote An international leader in Social Foresight for Strategy and Innovation, Josephine will show us ways to decentralise and distribute innovation, strategy and design. | Josephine Green Speaker and consultant at Beyond 20: 21st century stories | |
Close to Robots: Human responses to collaboration with robots Vanessa will present insights in how people perceive and trust robots, the ways human attitudes toward robots are influenced, and international differences in human responses to social robots. | Vanessa Evers University of Amsterdam | |
Connected Care: Supporting Caregivers Through Awareness Displays Martijn will present findings from two design explorations into the use of awareness displays to support both caregivers and care clients. | Martijn Vastenburg TU Delft | |
People as Content Anton will look deeper into non-cooperative behaviour and its many uses from both the point of view of a smart environment, and that of human partners, users, or inhabitants of smart environments. | Anton Nijholt University of Twente | |
SnowGlobe: An Awareness System to Support Social Connectedness Poster The SnowGlobe awareness system supports passive awareness of movement in the living room between two users by changing displayed light and snowflake intensity. | Thomas Visser, Martijn Vastenburg and David Keyson TU Delft | |
The Art and Craft of Being Elsewhere The Web and similar digital spaces have to be "places" in order to provide satisfying experiences. Andrea will discuss design rules for location, action, space and time that allow for successful place-making. | Andrea Resmini FatDUX | |
The Human Interface (Why Products are People, Too) Chris will explore diverse areas of non-digital human experience (language, storytelling, neurology and sociology) to frame and showcase some of the most exciting current and emerging user experience design practices on the web and other media. | Christopher Fahey Behavior | |
The use of a smartphone to monitor and advise patients with obsessive-compulsive disorders Nynke and Javed will elaborate on ways to understand and help patients suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) using a website, a smartphone and a database. | Nynke Spijksma, Javed-Vassilis Khan Marina de Wolf Hospital Centre for Anxiety Disorders, Eindhoven University of Technology | |
When Data Gets Up Close and Personal From 'games' like the the Wii Fit to home devices that monitor energy usage, Stephen believes data can change us for the better. He will show us how to expose data in a way that influences change. | Stephen Anderson PoetPainter, Mental Notes |
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