Global challenges require rapid methods for long-term thinking. We developed Future Ripples, a workshop for innovation teams to map out the consequences of their work. Our method transforms the foresight process of scanning, framing and futuring into the metaphor of scanning the shore, choosing a pebble and creating ripples. Next to its practical use, our method activates anticipatory capacities through sophisticated futuring.

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Will we in the future wear Memes? Nordic students already do. Despite two decades of HCI research on social wearables, we are yet to see widespread adoption. In our generative design research, we investigate the utilisation of social wearables in the students’ practice of wearing and adorning boiler suits. We found a variety of social interactions, including spamming and digital memes, as a concept for designers.

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Hooze

in Research

In a week-long workshop we – Patrycja Zdziarska, Walther Jensen and me – designed Hooze: A Kinetic Fashion Accessory for Touch and Play. We presented our work on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2019.

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In a year long study we observed an agile software development team, to understand, how it establishes security practices following a security consultancy. This included in-situ observation at a security workshop and interviews with developers and management. In our long paper for CSCW 2017 we reveal that the consultancy helped understanding, but was not sufficient to change organizational routines.

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LED Top-Hat

in Experiments

After a lack of electronics projects, I had the idea to experiment with the WiFi enabled ESP8266 chip. For a highly creative music festival I visited in summer 2016, I had the idea of using a LED-tophat as an entertainment wearable, but also experiment with social dynamics in a festival crowd.

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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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Felix A. Epp

Felix A. Epp is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design under Prof. Elisa D. Mekler and Antti Salovaara. He investigates how wearable technology can shape our face-to-face social interactions in his thesis work. Further, he develops methods to integrate futures thinking into the technology innovation practice.


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Helsinki, Finland