Everyday Design Studio
Dr. William Odom and the Everyday Design Studio is looking for new graduate students (Masters or PhD) to join our group in Fall 2019. Positions are funded, limited, and highly competitive. The Everyday Design Studio http://eds.siat.sfu.ca is a design research studio at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) in Vancouver, Canada. Our group specializes in the areas of research through design, interaction design, human-computer interaction, and tangible computing. Our research investigates the changing nature of interaction design in response to the increasing role technology plays in mediating everyday practices like reminiscence, self exploration, social connection, the making of home life, and so on. In the spirit of design research, we aim to be reflective and generative, uncovering new and emergent practices of design that help shape both design and its relation to technologies. We design new computational things and systems, and study them in the context of people’s everyday lives. We often also develop new methods for better supporting the practice of interaction design research.
We have also recently been awarded a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to build a new, state-of-the-art lab for making ‘research products’ that combines equipment for digital fabrication, electronics prototyping and small batch production, finishing, and product/demo/field documentation. With this, our studio will receive an additional 1200 square feet of space to house this equipment and support our design research. It is an exciting time to join our studio!
Our studio prides itself on a strong collaborative culture with a friendly, engaging, and highly creative atmosphere. New graduate students will work on projects related to: supporting long-term interaction with digital content and technologies, the internet of things, AI/machine learning and design, slow interaction design, tangible computing, and digital fabrication with hybrid materials. Please contact Dr. William Odom at wodom@sfu.ca to express you interest in a PhD or Masters position in the Everyday Design Studio.