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Joanna Berzowska

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http://www.berzowska.com/
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Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University

Joanna Berzowska is the founder and research director of XS Labs, a design research studio that develops innovative methods and applications in electronic textiles and responsive garments. She is Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University and a member of the Hexagram Research Institute in Montreal. She lectures and consults internationally about the field of electronic textiles and related social, cultural, aesthetic, and political issues. Her art and design work has been shown in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC, the V&A in London, the Millenium Museum in Beijing, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, the Art Directors Club in NYC, the Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo, and Ars Electronica Center in Linz among others. Her research is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canadian Heritage, Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, and the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). She was recently selected for the Maclean's 2006 Honour Roll as one of "thirty nine Canadians who make the world a better place to live in".

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Coelho, Marcelo, Hall, Lyndl, Berzowska, Joanna and Maes, Pattie (2009): Pulp-based computing: a framework for building computers out of paper. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009. pp. 3527-3528. Available online

In this video, we describe a series of techniques for building sensors, actuators and circuit boards that behave, look, and feel like paper. By embedding electro-active inks, conductive threads and smart materials directly into paper during the papermaking process, we have developed seamless composites that are capable of supporting new and unexpected application domains in ubiquitous and pervasive computing at affordable costs.

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Coelho, Marcelo, Poupyrev, Ivan, Sadi, Sajid, Vertegaal, Roel, Berzowska, Joanna, Buechley, Leah, Maes, Pattie and Oxman, Neri (2009): Programming reality: from transitive materials to organic user interfaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009. pp. 4759-4762. Available online

Over the past few years, a quiet revolution has been redefining our fundamental computing technologies. Flexible E-Ink, OLED displays, shape-changing materials, parametric design, e-textiles, sensor networks, and intelligent interfaces promise to spawn entirely new user experiences that will redefine our relationship with technology. This workshop invites researchers and practitioners to imagine and debate this future, exploring two converging themes. Transitive Materials focuses on how emerging materials and computationally-driven behaviors can operate in unison blurring the boundaries between form and function, human body and environment, structures and membranes. Organic User Interfaces (OUI) explores future interactive designs and applications as these materials become commonplace.

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Berzowska, Joanna (2005): Memory rich clothing: second skins that communicate physical memory. In: Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2005. pp. 32-40. Available online

This paper examines the development of wearable technologies that display a garment's history of use and communicate physical memory. We explore how trends in digital technologies and conventional wearable research contrast the ways our bodies and clothing register memory at a personal and social level. Our research concentrates on the production of garments that take into consideration aspects of playfulness and that reflect more subtle or poetic aspects of our identity and embodied history. The pieces described here are part of a larger series called Memory Rich Clothing and employ several soft computation techniques developed in our labs.

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Publication period:2005-2009
Publication count:3
Number of co-authors:8



Productive colleagues

Joanna Berzowska's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Roel Vertegaal:38
Pattie Maes:29
Ivan Poupyrev:19


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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Marcelo Coelho:2
Pattie Maes:2
Leah Buechley:1

 

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