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About Interaction-Design.org
Making research accessible since 2002
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Editor-in-Chief: Mads Soegaard (mads@interaction-design.org)
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The Interaction-Design.org Foundation
Att: Mads Soegaard
Chr. Molbechs Vej 4
DK-8000 Aarhus C.
Denmark
Our History
The Interaction-Design.org Foundation is a labour of love founded by Mads Soegaard in 2002, and in 2010, his wife, Rikke Dam, joined the project. Apart from Rikke and Mads, hundreds of people have helped out and continue to do so.
We're on a mission to make free and open educational materials: There are so many great minds in the Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design community and we want to empower these authors to reach all their interested readers around the world. We believe these authors have the minds to change the world and deserve a publishing venue truly designed for the author and the reader, not the publisher and the profit.
Our current results show that our free, open, and online approach to publishing lets our authors reach at least 20,000% more readers than their all-time most popular publication. That's quite an achievement since we only invite best-selling technology and design authors.
Yes, we're idealistic. We had to sell our car, re-mortgage our house, get a tenant to help pay the rent, and spend big amounts of our private capital to do it. We even moved to Thailand for a longer period to help keep our costs at a minimum. We found a semi-deserted island where we could focus 100% on our work. We brought extra laptop batteries as we only had power from a diesel generator 5 hours a day. We were able to catch a GSM signal to get a low-bandwidth internet connection. Here are some pictures.
In sum, it has taken us 10 years of hard work to get here and it's worth it: Every single day we help educate thousands of designers and thus help make "a better world through better design." We support:
Our readers
Our world-wide community of readers passionately support our mission to create world-class educational materials for free.
Our Donor Hall of Fame
We can't run the site without help from generous donors.
The top 3 most generous donors from the donor hall of fame:
The Advisory Board
alphabeticallyLegal Advisory Board
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Our Mission
We foster synergy at the very highest level between science and high-tech companies. We mix elite professors from Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, etc. with elite designers from Google Research, Apple, IBM Research, etc. And together we produce top-grade, open, and free online learning materials to the benefit of both industry and academia all over the world.
We continually improve and reinvent learning materials as a genre by, for example, producing HD video interviews and including interactive elements. All the educational institutions we visit express need for innovation in this field. At Cambridge University, for example, they closed a museum in order that we could make a video with a professor.
We provide aid for educational institutions and companies in developing countries by giving them free access to materials that otherwise would be out of their financial reach. 20 % of our readers are from developing countries, and the number is increasing exponentially.
We modernize the publishing industry by building a conceptual, legal, editorial, and technical platform for the publication of first-rate online material in a world where 1) people prefer free content over paid content for reasons of both time and money 2) the physical book is being outmanoeuvred by the e-book 3) authors prefer that publishers use technology to maximize readership and not use it to limit readership as in the case of paywalls.
We lay out our results in total openness so they can be used within any other area – from astronomy to psychology.
We contribute to the creation of a better world – in agreement with the UNESCO statement, "Universal access to high quality education is key to the building of peace, sustainable social and economic development, and intercultural dialogue."
The Advisory Board
alphabeticallyJohn M. Carroll
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Robert Fabricant
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Jon Kolko
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Jonas Lowgren
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David Malouf
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Peter Morville
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Daniel Rosenberg
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The Editorial Team
Mads Soegaard
Previously, I've worked at The Danish National Technological Institute working with research in industry Until March 2000 I was one of three partners in Csite.com, a web development company of about 11 people. It went out of business in 2009. I've ...
More about Mads >>Rikke Friis Dam
Rikke Dam holds a Master's Degree in philosophy from the University of Aarhus, a journalistic degree in making research accessible, and a teaching degree. Previously, she has worked as an independent consultant, filmmaker, and photographer. As a consulta...
More about Rikke >>Klaus B. Baerentsen
Klaus Bærentsen is associate professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus. His research area concerns human consciousness in a broad sense, encompassing evolution, cultural history and ongoing individual life activity, as well as the brain a...
More about Klaus >>Amanda Williams
Amanda Williams is a co-founder of Wyld Collective Ltd, an independent interaction design and research consultancy based in Montréal. She received her Ph.D. from UC Irvine's School of Information and Computer Sciences, advised by Paul Dourish. Her research cur...
More about Amanda >>Anne Marie Kanstrup
Anne Marie Kanstrup is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Communications, Aalborg University. I do research in design of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). My perspective is Human Centered which means that the primary purpose is to design tech...
More about Anne >>Allan Holstein-Rathlou
I am a Master of Arts in Nordic Language and Literature and Philosophy. I have researched, taught, and published on a wide spectrum of topics relating to my subjects. Especially, I am interested in the dynamic relationship and interactions between philosophy, ...
More about Allan >>Egon L. van den Broek
Egon L. van den Broek, MSc (2001) in artificial intelligence, PhD (2005) in image retrieval, and PhD (2011) in affective computing. He is consultant and assistant professor (University of Twente and Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands...
More about Egon >>Rune Nørager
Rune Nørager is a design psychologist from Aarhus University. Although there is no formal profession called design psychology as such, this approach seems to fit the academic and professional competencies of Rune Nørager that has characterized his career s...
More about Rune >>Legal Advisory Board
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Martin von Haller Grønbæk
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The Reviewing Board
Mads Soegaard
Previously, I've worked at The Danish National Technological Institute working with research in industry Until March 2000 I was one of three partners in Csite.com, a web development company of about 11 people. It went out of business in 2009. I've ...
More about Mads >>Rune Nørager
Rune Nørager is a design psychologist from Aarhus University. Although there is no formal profession called design psychology as such, this approach seems to fit the academic and professional competencies of Rune Nørager that has characterized his career s...
More about Rune >>Rikke Friis Dam
Rikke Dam holds a Master's Degree in philosophy from the University of Aarhus, a journalistic degree in making research accessible, and a teaching degree. Previously, she has worked as an independent consultant, filmmaker, and photographer. As a consulta...
More about Rikke >>Klaus B. Baerentsen
Klaus Bærentsen is associate professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus. His research area concerns human consciousness in a broad sense, encompassing evolution, cultural history and ongoing individual life activity, as well as the brain a...
More about Klaus >>Allan Holstein-Rathlou
I am a Master of Arts in Nordic Language and Literature and Philosophy. I have researched, taught, and published on a wide spectrum of topics relating to my subjects. Especially, I am interested in the dynamic relationship and interactions between philosophy, ...
More about Allan >>Egon L. van den Broek
Egon L. van den Broek, MSc (2001) in artificial intelligence, PhD (2005) in image retrieval, and PhD (2011) in affective computing. He is consultant and assistant professor (University of Twente and Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands...
More about Egon >>Anne-Marie Christensen
Anne-Marie Christensen holds a MA research degree in anthropology and is the founder and principal of Etnovator. Etnovator is a consultancy company doing deep market research and people-centered innovation within the life science sector. The company is based o...
More about Anne-Marie >>Jeppe Stouby Mortensen
Jeppe Stouby Mortensen works as an Architect and 3D designer at Schmidt Hammer & Lassen in Aarhus, Denmark. Previously, Jeppe has been a founding partner of Sektor4, a Danish 3D Design company, and worked as a lecturer at the University of Aarhus. ...
More about Jeppe >>Karsten Nebe
I graduated in Computer Science, and Psychology as minor subject, at the University of Paderborn. In 2002 I started working as Usability Engineer at the Cooperative Computing & Communication Laboratory (C-LAB) Paderborn, which is a joint research and developme...
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Soeren Friis Dam
Soeren helps interaction-design.org with audio design on our videos and assistance with graphic design on our website. Soeren is a composer and graphic designer and has started the Danish Band, Sinusstøv....
More about Soeren >>Alumni
Martin Brynskov
Martin is assistant professor in interaction technologies at the Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is also director of the Civic Communication group at the Center for Digital Urban Living, a Danish national researc...
More about Martin >>Peter Dalsgaard
Peter Dalsgaard is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University with close ties to the Center for Digital Urban Living and CAVI, the Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction. "My field of research i...
More about Peter >>Elhanan Gazit
Dr. Hanan Gazit (VRider) serves as the Israeli DIGRA Chapter ,, promoting the DIGRA's vision and the use of virtual worlds and digital games for instruction, learning & business in all sectors. Dr. Gazit is a researcher and a lecturer at H.I.T-Holon Institute ...
More about Elhanan >>Bill Papantoniou
Bill Papantoniou is researcher at the Ergonomics Unit of the National Technical University of Athens. He also teaches Ergonomics in the AKTO Industrial Design school and works in projects involving the support of human work (physical and cognitive). B...
More about Bill >>Thomas Memmel
Thomas Memmel was a research assistant at the University of Konstanz at the chair for human-computer interaction of Prof. Harald Reiterer. He holds a BSc (2002) and MSc (2005) in Computer Science. He was involved in a DaimlerChrysler AG funded PhD program and ...
More about Thomas >>Jonas Therkildsen
Jonas Therkildsen is partner and information architect at Sorthvid ApS. Sorthvid is a small webagency located i Copenhagen, Denmark. We do large-scale information architecture and user-experience on the web. ...
More about Jonas >>Jacob Orquin
Jacob Orquin is employed as a PhD researcher at Department of Marketing and Statistics at Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University. Jacob is also partner in the Danish user experience and usability company UserPilot. Main interests: usability, user ex...
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