Designing for Wearability

Speaker
Jonny Farringdon
Director of Science at Bodymedia

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

Jonny will discuss the issues of bringing the Levis-Philips ICD+ jackets to market. Through this and other wearables made by the Philips Research team he’ll discuss the match and mis-match between the fashion and consumer electronics industries, what role technology & design has in wearables, and consider the question, “why wear it at all”?

Speaker's Bio

Jonny Farringdon is director of science at Bodymedia. He lead the wearable electronics activity at Philips Research (1997–2001), and was product manager (2000/1) for the Philips/Levi’s ICD+ range of wearable electronics jackets. Before this he was at University College London as senior research fellow & tutor in computer science (1995–97), and modeled human cognition (1990–95), memory, learning, and the complexity of tasks. He studied in London, Maths (BSc) and Artificial Intelligence (MSc distinction).

Host
Dan Siewiorek