Current project and independent study researchers, and MDes thesis advisees
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Devika Singh Electric Acoustic, New Metaphors, New Ways To Live: Future Pittsburgh |
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Gray Crawford Electric Acoustic, MDes thesis: Assimilating Hyperphysical Affordances |
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Aadya Krishnaprasad Ecologies of Sleep, Wellbeing and Mental Health |
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Rachel Gray Alexander New Ways To Live: Future Pittsburgh |
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Saloni Sabnis New Metaphors, New Ways To Live: Future Pittsburgh |
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Michelle Chou New Metaphors, Ecologies of Sleep, Wellbeing and Mental Health |
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Jay Huh |
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Katie Herzog New Ways To Think: Materializing Mental Health, MDes thesis, Independent study: Data Physicalization |
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Zach Bachiri Independent study: Data Physicalization |
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Lucas Ochoa Independent study: Open source emotive AI assistant platform |
Faculty
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Dr Dan Lockton Assistant Professor and Chair of Design Studies, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Affiliate, Carnegie Mellon Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University Visiting Tutor, Innovation Design Engineering, Royal College of Art |
Dan Lockton’s current PhD advisees
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Silvia Mata-Marin More Than Walls: Everyday Bordering. Carnegie Mellon University. Committee: Dan Lockton, Molly Wright Steenson, TBA. |
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Francis Carter Affording Agency: Constructive Contradictions for Being-in-the-World. Carnegie Mellon University. Committee: Dan Lockton, Jonathan Chapman, TBA. |
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Kakee Scott Co-Creating Alternative Economic Practices. Carnegie Mellon University. Committee: Dan Lockton, Ramia Mazé, Cameron Tonkinwise. |
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Stephen Neely Soma Literacy and Corporeal Design. Carnegie Mellon University. Committee: Jonathan Chapman, Dan Lockton, Cameron Tonkinwise. |
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Dave Pao Electronic Medical Records for the Information Age. Royal College of Art. Supervisors: John Stevens, Dan Lockton. |
New Ways To Think and New Ways To Live project teams
| New Ways To Think: Materializing Mental Health | Michal Luria, Jen Brown, Katie Herzog, Laura Rodriguez, Supawat Vitoorakaporn, Josh LeFevre, Ulu Mills,, Carlie Guilfoile, Nowell Kahle, Kailin Dong, Jessica Nip, Aisha Dev, Katie Glass, Zhiye Jin, Soonho Kwon, Arden Wolf, Dan Lockton | New Ways To Live: Future Pittsburgh | Saloni Sabnis, Rachel Gray Alexander, Devika Singh, John Zoppina, Aisha Dev, Kailin Dong, Monica Huang, Soonho Kwon, Jessica Nip, Nicole Pinto, Jen Brown, Jeffrey Chou, Katie Herzog, Laura Kelly, Michal Luria, Ulu Mills, Laura Rodriguez, Dan Lockton |
Environments Studio IV project teams
| 2019: Qualities | Jackie Chou, Erin Ryan, CJ Walsh, Tammar Zea-Wolfson, Antonio Song. | Teaching assistant: Joe Hines. Instructor: Dan Lockton | 2018: Intelligence(s) in Environments | Maayan Albert, Gautam Bose, Emma Brennan, Cameron Burgess, Aisha Dev, Anna Gusman, Monica Huang, Soonho Kwon, Marisa Lu, Jessica Nip, Lucas Ochoa, Helen Wu. | Instructor: Dan Lockton |
| 2017: The Invisible | Jasper Tom, Gilly Johnson, Chris Perry, Ji Tae Kim, Ty Van de Zande. | Teaching assistant: Nehal Vora. Instructor: Dan Lockton |
Imaginaries Lab Alumni
| Project researchers | Ashlesha Dhotey, Theora Kvitka, Matt Prindible, Delanie Ricketts, Shengzhi Wu, Katie Herzog, Sarah Foley, Nehal Vora, Silvia Mata-Marin |
| MDes thesis advisees | Mackenzie Cherban, 2018 Ubiquitous Inclusion Advisor: Dan Lockton |
| Meriç Dağlı, 2018 Designing for Trust: Exploring Trust and Collaboration in Conversational Agents for E-commerce Advisors: Dan Lockton, Daragh Byrne |
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| Dixon Lo, 2017 Experiential Augmentation: Representing Invisible Digital Processes with Intuitive Physical Properties Advisors: Stacie Rohrbach, Dan Lockton |
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| Sarah Foley, 2017 Service Fictions as a Method in Problem-Finding Research in the Field of Sleep Advisors: Dan Lockton, Cameron Tonkinwise |
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| Shruti Aditya Chowdhury, 2017 Designing Fitness: Probes for Motivation Advisors: Dan Lockton, Molly Wright Steenson |
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| Independent study researchers and undergraduate research fellows | Ty Van de Zande (SURF), Cameron Burgess & Conner Harden (SURG), Gray Crawford, Sarah Foley, Hannah Rosenfeld, Leah Jiang, Monique Smith, Meriç Dağlı, Hajira Qazi, Rachel Chang, Courtney Pozzi, Helen Wu, Julia Wong, Rae Headrick |
Completed PhDs advised by Dan Lockton
| Dr Chang Hee Lee Innovation Design Engineering Royal College of Art, 2018 |
Synaesthesia Materialisation: Approaches to Applying Synaesthesia as a Provocation for Generating Creative Ideas within the Context of Design. Supervisors: John Stevens, Dan Lockton |
| Dr Michael Arnold Mages Design Carnegie Mellon University, 2018 |
Designing Civic Conversations: Things and Facilitation in High-Stakes and Difficult Conversations. Committee: Jonathan Chapman, Dan Lockton, Cameron Tonkinwise |
| Dr Deepa Butoliya Design Carnegie Mellon University, 2018 |
Critical Jugaad: A post normal design framework for designerly marginal practices. Committee: Molly Wright Steenson, Katherine Moline, Stuart Candy, Dan Lockton |
| Dr Nazlı Terzioğlu Özkan Innovation Design Engineering Royal College of Art, 2017 |
Do-Fix: Creating Deeper Relationships Between Users and Products Through Visible Repair. Supervisors: Dan Lockton, Clare Brass |
| Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar Innovation Design Engineering Royal College of Art, 2016 |
IdIoT: Second-order cybernetics in the ‘smart’ home. Supervisors: Ranulph Glanville, Ashley Hall, Dan Lockton, Paul Pangaro |
Friends of the lab
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Bella Model for New Metaphors cards, and professor of barkhitecture. |