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I am not your typical or conventional wearable interaction/technology researcher,

My approach to wearable interaction and technology research

I am not your typical wearable interaction researcher and thats critically important.

The best part about anthropology is that you can never "turn it off", meaning that I


If you want to udnerstand how people interact with their world

All wearable interaction research starts with

"wearable interaction researcher" and that's critically important for the team. I bring

In 150 characters or fewer, tell us what makes you unique. Try to be creative and say something that will catch our eye!*

Approaching Wearable interaction research through anthropology

By approaching wearable interaction research from such a d
By approaching wearable interaction research through an anthropological perspective, I can put the "human"

By focusing on people and putting
the "human" back into

I bring human, "wearable" half

By puting the human back in "wearbale"
By approaching


I bring together both sides of "wearable technology": the human and the


I bring a different ways of understanding people

A very different way of interacting with the world requires someone with a very different way of seeing the world.



By approaching wearable interaction research through



The first part in understanding how someone interacts/engages with their world is underestanding how they

The first part of understanding how people interact through computers and technology with their world, is

As a first-hand user

Both a user and researcher of wearable technology, I bring the team
I bring a fresh, different human-centered
(socio-cultural) perspective


Through I bring a different way of seeing and understanding people to the team

I bring together both sides of "wearable technology": the human and the

To bring a more holistic understanding of

I research wearable technology interaction from "the inside and out"--as a first-hand user and

I research wearable technology interaction

Through participant observaton, In order to better understand


The best way to understand some

As a wearable device user and researcher I understand better than

As a researcher not only studying wearable device interaction, but

I became a wearable technology user in order to have a better

In order to be an effective wearable technology interaction research
er, I first became a

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When teams design new ways for people to interact with the world, they must also design
When teams design different ways for people to interact with the world, they must also design diferent ways of interacting with people.

It was necessary to design a different way of interacting with people

One must design different ways


To design a wa

When designing new

To design new

In designing