Designing Human Experiences

The Human Experience & Design Group at Cambridge designs and fabricates new human experiences with computing. These play on many different kinds of human values, from amplifying efficiency and effectiveness to creating delight and wonder in our interactions with technology. And they can be situated in any aspect of everyday life, from increasing productivity in the workplace to respecting the tenderness of family life. In this talk, Richard Banks will give an overview of the work of the team, describing how the disciplines of social science, computer science and design work together as a multi-disciplinary unit, and showing a number of working projects and prototypes.