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.

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.

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.

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.

I design and created a responsive artist page for singer-songwriter The Trees like Torches at trees.liketorch.es.

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.

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.

On behalf of LEISE – Integrated Design Studio I created various interactive applications for the exhibition “Faszination Farbe” at Carl-Bosch-Museum in Heidelberg. The exhibits explain in various ways the history, physics and curiosities around color and now tours Germany for some years.

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.

From a wedding gift to sleepless nights I created animations/installations all based on triangles.