Forlizzi to Deliver Keynote at DeSForM 2015
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Jodi Forlizzi, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, will be one of the keynote speakers at the 9th Internal Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM 2015). This year, the conference focuses around the theme - Aesthetics of Interaction: DYNAMIC, MULTISENSORY, WISE – and takes place October 13-17 in Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Forlizzi focuses on designing and researching systems ranging from peripheral displays to social and assistive robots. Her current research interests include designing educational games that are engaging and effective, designing services that adapt to people’s needs, and designing for healthcare.
Her talk, “Designing Today’s Product-Service Ecologies” will reflect on recent articles in the popular press that state that we are living in the Golden Age of Design. With the emergence of innovative technology in the new Age of Information, the conception of what we design has changed. Forlizzi’s talk will explain why today, designers no longer create products; they instead create platforms for open innovation. She will speak to the discipline of design’s many eras and shifts, in order to understand this movement from designing products to designing platforms. She will present product-service ecologies, a systemic and ecological approach to designing the products, services, environments, and platforms of today.
To learn more about DeSForM 2015, you can visit their website.