Acknowledgment to Referees

Leila A ﬂatoony is an interaction design researcher and educator. She theory available at uoregon.academia.edu/JerryDiethelm. He is a graduated with a Ph.D. from the School of Interactive Arts and Tech-

member of the Sustainability Commission of Eugene, Oregon. nology at Simon Fraser University. Her background spans interaction

diethelm@comcast.net

design, industrial design, and graphic design. Her research interests lie generally in the ﬁelds of interaction design, human-computer inter-

Thomas Fischer is Associate Professor at Department of Architecture, action, design thinking, and design education.

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, where he works as an laﬂatoo@sfu.ca

Associate Professor, teaching architecture as well as industrial design. Thomas is a fellow of the Design Research Society and received the

Eli Blevis is an Associate Professor of Informatics in the Human- American Society for Cybernetics’ “Warren McCulloch” Award in 2011. Computer Interaction Design (HCI/d) program of the School of Infor-

Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Kassel in matics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he

Germany and one in Architecture and Design from RMIT University in also directs the HCI/d program. He is also a Visiting Professor at the

Australia. He previously taught at the School of Design at The Hong Hong Kong Polytechnic School of Design. His primary area of research,

Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor and as the and the one for which he is best known, is sustainable interaction

Discipline Leader of Industrial Design.

design. His research also engages visual thinking-especially photo-

Thomas.Fischer@xjtlu.edu.cn

graphic foundations of HCI, and design theory-especially trans- disciplinary design.

John M. Flach is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology eblevis@indiana.edu

with a joint appointment in the Biomedical, Industrial, & Human Factors Engineering Department at Wright State University, Dayton,

Cees de Bont is professor and dean at school of Design, Hong Kong OH. He received the Ph.D. in Human Experimental Psychology from Polytechnic University. He has solid experience and track records in the

The Ohio State University in 1984. His research interests are in applied management and leadership of sizable and leading design schools in

cognitive psychology and the implications for human-technology the world. He took up the deanship of the School of Design of the Hong

integration in sociotechnical systems. He has worked in various Kong Polytechnic University in February 2011, after having been the

domains including aviation and healthcare. Also, he has taught courses dean of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of the Delft

in both psychology and engineering curricula. He is co-author of University of Technology in the Netherlands for seven years. He was

several books, including texts on display and interface design (Bennett subsequently Head of Marketing Research and Strategy at Philips

& Flach, 2011) and on modeling human performance using control Domestic Appliances and Personal Care from 1997 to 2005 when he was

theory (Jagacinski & Flach, 2003).

responsible for generating and utilizing market information for the

john.ﬂach@wright.edu

formulation of the strategy, R&D and marketing plan of the company. His research interests are in the areas of design education, consumer

Barry Katz is consulting professor in the Department of Mechanical behavior, innovation adoption, design methods and networked

Engineering at Stanford University, professor of Industrial and Inter- innovation.

action Design at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and cees.debont@polyu.edu.hk

Fellow at IDEO, Inc., the Silicon Valley-based design and innovation consultancy. Barry is the author of six books, including Change By Design

Priscilla Chueng-Nainby , Ph.D., is design activist, academic and poet with Tim Brown, (Harper Collins, 2009), and Make it New: The History of based at the University of Edinburgh. Priscilla received her Ph. D. in

Silicon Valley Design (MIT Press 2015). His writings on design as a strategy Design at Edinburgh and has held positions at TU Delft, University of

of innovation have appeared in many academic, professional, and the Arts London, the Glasgow School of Art, DESIS lab at JiangNan

popular journals.

University. Her research investigates complex structure of collective

bkatz@stanford.edu

imagery to facilitate co-design activity with communities for social innovation. She has lead over forty co-design engagements on various

Blair Kuys is currently Department Chair (Head) of Interior Archi- real world causes such as village regeneration at Inner Mongolia and

tecture and Industrial Design within the Faculty of Health, Arts and Unesco KaiPing building conversation; diabetes prevention at Scotland

Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. highlands and islands, and youth awareness for the Scottish Refer-

He completed a Ph.D. with the CSIRO and Swinburne University of endum, etc. One of her work, the Collective Imagery Weave installation

Technology in 2010. He is an active researcher and has been instru- was exhibited at the Dutch Design Week, Hong Kong Social Innovation

mental in working alongside scientists, manufacturers and engineers Festival, and recently the Royal College of Art. For visuals see www.

to promote the beneﬁts of industrial design for new product develop- priscilla.me.uk .

ments. He has over 35 peer-reviewed publications relating to the ﬁeld priscilla.nainby@gmail.com

of industrial design and product design engineering and has success- fully been awarded over $AUD1.8M in industry-linked research income

Jerry Diethelm is a practicing architect, landscape architect, and

over the past 4 years.

planning and urban design consultant in Oregon. He is Professor

bkuys@swin.edu.au

Emeritus of Landscape Architecture and Community Service at the University of Oregon, where he taught planning and design studios and

Swee Mak was appointed Director of RMIT Design Research Institute in theory courses for 35 years. He taught graduate level theory courses in

January 2015, where he promotes trans-disciplinary research, industry Environmental Ethics, Environmental Aesthetics, and Advanced

engagement, and effective translation of research to create beneﬁt to Design Theory to students in Landscape Architecture, Architecture,

industry, community, and government. Prior to joining RMIT, Swee was Planning Public Policy and Management, Environmental Studies and

the Director of the Future Manufacturing National Research Flagship at Geography. Today, in addition to his consulting practice, he writes a

CSIRO, which delivered research to 300 partners annually across column on Design Matters for the Eugene Weekly and essays on design

multiple industry segments including automotive, aerospace, health,

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fellowship in design aesthetics at Swinburne University of Technology business. He was a major driver behind the formation of the Australian

after having received her PhD at the same university. Her research Design Integration Network. Most recently, Swee was appointed as

areas cover design, psychology, and psychophysiology, with interests Interim Director of RMIT’s Accelerator and Incubator Initiative where

including design innovation, design methods, design aesthetics, he will lead a cross-University multi-disciplinary team to design,

experimental psychology, emotional processing, and visual percep- develop, and deliver the strategy and program.

tion. She is presently investigating how design methods and tools swee.l.mak@gmail.com

support innovation, in particular, how framing supports changes in product meaning.

Jeremy Myerson holds the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at the Royal

clementine.thurgood@uts.edu.au

College of Art, London, with a remit to encourage “design that improves quality of life.” An academic, author and activist in design for

Heico Wesselius received his Bachelor’s degree in Business Admin- the past 35 years, he began his working life as a journalist and was

istration degree from The Amsterdam Business School (HES). He then founder-editor of Design Week in 1986. He co-founded the Helen

worked for several years as a strategic advisor in various functional Hamlyn Centre for Design at the RCA in 1999, and his research interests

industry groups before returning to NY to pursue his Master’s degree. focus on the role of design in social, demographic and technological

He enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the New School for Social Research change. He was Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design from

(NSSR). Following his move to Australia, he works as a CSIRO & 1999 to October 2015. A graduate of the RCA, Jeremy Myerson is the

University Research Fellow in the Centre for Design Innovation at the author of many books, chapters, papers and articles on people-centered

School of Design, Swinburne University of Technology. His expertise and inclusive design. He directs the WORKTECH Academy, based on the

lies in the development of innovation strategies that create resilient WORKTECH series of international conferences on workplace design,

business models, product and service offerings that adapt to changing and his most recent books include Time & Motion (Liverpool University

market conditions, innovation strategy and execution, complexity Press 2013) and Life Of Work (Black Dog Publishing 2014). He sits on the

analysis and management, sustainable practice. Heico serves as a advisory boards of design institutes in Hong Kong, Switzerland and

strategic adviser to several international based design-led Korea.

organizations.

jeremy.myerson@rca.ac.uk

hwesselius@swin.edu.au

Warwick Powell (鲍韶山) is the founder and chairman of Sister City Danielle Wilde is associate professor of research at SDU Design in Partners Ltd, which is a regional not-for-proﬁt investment banking

Kolding, Denmark, where she is setting up new competencies in enterprise. Warwick Powell is also a director of a number of companies

embodied design, wearable futures, design/science convergence, civic in Australia and Hong Kong involved in investment banking, big data

participation in early-stage nano- and bio-science, and post-disciplinary analytics, renewable energy and agribusiness services. Warwick is a

collaboration. Over the past decade, Wilde’s research has focused on recognized creative thinker in economic, social and enterprise devel-

embodied engagement in the context of wearables, and the rich opment with 20 years’ experience in identifying and assessing social

possibilities afforded by engaging the body through the imagination, and economic impacts across a broad range of public policy proposi-

and the imagination through the moving, sensing, thinking body. Her tions and development activities and initiatives.

current research builds on this foundation, to converge design, w.powell@uaa.net.au

emerging science and civic imaginaries in a quest to reimagine and reinvigorate the interplay between science, design and society. For

Clementine Thurgood is a postdoctoral research fellow within the more information see www.daniellewilde.com . Design Innovation Research Centre at University of Technology

d@daniellewilde.com

she ji The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2015

Editorial Board

Christopher Smith Ken Friedman

Editor-in-Chief

Associate Editors

Lily Diaz-Kommonen

University of Nottingham, UK College of Design and Innovation,

Eli Blevis

Aalto University, Finland

Susan Squires Tongji University, China;

Indiana University, USA

Jerry Diethelm

University of North Texas, USA Centre for Design Innovation,

Sam Bucolo

University of Oregon, USA

Marco Steinberg Swinburne University of

University of Technology Sydney,

Kees Dorst

Snowcone and Haystack, Finland Technology, Australia

Australia

University of Technology Sydney,

Erik Stolterman e-mail: ken.friedman.sheji@icloud.

Ilpo Koskinen

Australia

Indiana University, USA com

Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Linda Drew

Hong Kong

Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

Toshiharu Taura

Ksenija Kuzmina

Kalevi Ekman

Kobe University, Japan

Loughborough University, UK

Aalto University, Finland

Scott Thompson-Whiteside

Executive Editor

Swinburne University of Yongqi Lou

Michael Lissack

Alastair Fuad-Luke

Technology, Australia College of Design and Innovation,

Institute for the Study of

Aalto University, Finland

Teal Triggs Tongji University, China

Coherence and Emergence, USA

Carma R. Gorman

Royal College of Arts, UK e-mail: lou.yongqi@gmail.com

Punya Mishra

The University of Texas at Austin,

Michigan State University, USA

USA

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

Gjoko Muratovski

Roy Green

Swinburne University of

Auckland University of Technology,

University of Technology Sydney,

Technology, Australia

Anna Valtonen Jin Ma

Managing Editor

New Zealand

Australia

Aalto University, Finland College of Design and Innovation,

Jack Ox

Pierre Guillet de Monthoux

Peter-Paul Verbeek Tongji University, China

University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Copenhagen Business School,

University of Twente, The e-mail: majin.sheji@icloud.com

Owain Pedgley

Denmark

University of Liverpool, UK

Paul Hekkert

Netherlands; Delft University of

Tiiu Poldma

Delft University of Technology,

Technology, The Netherlands

Université de Montréal, Canada

The Netherlands

Roberto Verganti

Deputy Managing Editor

Politecnico di Milano, Italy Deirdre Barron

Lubomir Popov

Dan Hill

Karel van der Waarde School of Design, Swinburne

Bowling Green State University,

Future Cities Catapult, UK

Basel School of Design, University of Technology, Australia

USA

Sabine Junginger

Switzerland e-mail: dbarron@swin.edu.au

Tim Smithers

Macromedia University of Applied

Independent Research Consultant,

Sciences, Germany

Min Wang

Spain

Lorraine Justice

Central Academy of Fine Arts,

Brynjulf Tellefsen

Rochester Institute of Technology,

China

Designers

Xiangyang Xin Qin Du

Norwegian Business School,

USA

Jiangnan University, China College of Design and Innovation,

Norway

Barry Katz

Mike Zender Tongji University, China

Danielle Wilde

California College of the Arts, USA;

University of Cincinnati, USA Jiaying Hu

University of Southern Denmark,

Stanford University, USA

Denmark

Lucy Kimbell

College of Design and Innovation,

University of Brighton, UK;

Tongji University, China

University of Oxford, UK

Editorial Advisory Board

Board of Editors

Kun-Pyo Lee

Carolynne Bourne AM

Antti Ainamo

Korea Advanced Institute of

Bourne and Associates P/L,

Editorial Assitant

Australia Ditte Friedman

St. Petersburg Polytechnic

Science and Technology, Korea

University, Russia

Chris McMahon

Richard Buchanan

Linden J. Ball

University of Bristol, UK

Case Western Reserve University,

University of Central Lancashire,

Anna Meroni

USA

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Nigel Cross Jianne Whelton

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Daved Barry

Derek Miller

The Open University, UK

Copenhagen Business School,

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Larry Leifer

Denmark

Brigitte Borja de Mozota

Stanford University, USA

Christian Bason

Université Paris I Sorbonne, France

Swee Mak

Danish Design Centre, Denmark

Peter Murphy

RMIT University, Australia

Tracy Bhamra

James Cook University, Australia

Ezio Manzini

Loughborough University, UK

Yukari Nagai

Politecnico di Milano, Italy;

Cees de Bont

Japan Advanced Institute of

University of the Arts London, UK

Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Science and Technology, Japan

Sharon Poggenpohl

Hong Kong

Bonnie Nardi

Visible Language, USA

Mark Breitenberg

University of California at Irvine,

Yrjo Sotamaa

Art Center College of Design, USA

USA

Aalto University, Finland

Bruce Calway

Christena Nippert-Eng

Maureen Thurston

Shangdong University, China

Illinois Institute of Technology,

Deloitte, Australia

Lin-Lin Chen

USA

Jane Treadwell

National Taiwan University

Don Norman

World Bank, USA

of Science and Technology,

University of California at San

Patrick Whitney

Taiwan; Eindhoven University of

Diego, USA

Illinois Institute of Technology,

Technology, The Netherlands

David Raizman

USA

Bo T Christensen

Drexel University, USA

Siegfried Zhiqiang Wu

Copenhagen Business School,

† M P Ranjan (in memoriam)

Tongji University, China

Denmark

Ahmedabad University, India

Rachel Cooper

Göran Roos

University of Lancaster, UK

Swinburne University of

Meredith Davis

Technology, Australia

North Carolina State University,

Seymour Roworth-Stokes

USA

Coventry University, UK

Acknowledgment to Referees