Organisers

Dr. Armağan Karahanoğlu is an Interaction Design research group assistant professor at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on understanding, developing and enhancing the interaction in the context of physical well-being. This encompasses research on understanding the motivational effects of technology in physical activity and exercise behaviour and developing self-tracking tools that facilitate data sensemaking in the context of physical activity, sports and wellbeing. Personal Website

Dr. Laia Turmo Vidal is a Digital Futures Postdoctoral Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her research centres on multisensory technologies that enhance body perception towards physical, social and emotional well-being. Her research interests include wearable computing, personalization, material interactions, participatory design and developing design methods. 

Dr. Daniel Harrison, is an assistant professor in the School of Design at Northumbria University. His research interests are in the design of technologies to inclusively support lifelong health, wellbeing and physical activity, while avoiding negative unintended consequences. Personal website.

Jamie Steane, is an Associate Professor in Communication Design and Head of Education in the School of Design at Northumbria University. His research interests include design pedagogy, user experience design and personal informatics related to eHealth and SportsHCI. Personal website

Tina Ekhtiar is a PhD candidate at the University of Twente, focusing on goal setting with personal informatics in the context of health and wellbeing. She is an industrial designer and design researcher passionate about creating interactive, playful designs that empathise with people's needs, specialising in health and wellbeing. Personal website

Dr. Teresa Almeida is an associate professor at the Department of Informatics at Umeå University in Sweden and a research member at the Interactive Technologies Institute/LARSyS in Portugal. Her work is interdisciplinary and explores research through design and participatory methods to research sensitive topics and design with marginalized communities of practice. Scholar profile

Dr. Anna Vallgårda is an Associate Professor and Head of the IxD Lab at the IT- University of Copenhagen. She works on developing design practices for interaction design which enables designers to engage deeply with the  entangled relations of the situations they design into. Research draws on relational feminism and new materialism but is firmly grounded in material form-giving and doing design as the basis. Personal website

Dr. Madeline Balaam is a professor of interaction design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Madeline's work extensively focuses on the design of digital technology for health and well-being, with a particular focus on intimate health. Over the last 15 years, Madeline has undertaken and supported research in relation to multiple life and health transitions, including motherhood, the onset of menstruation and menopause. Scholar profile