KMDI - Knowledge Media Design Institute
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Bill Buxton 2004 - 2005 |
| Bill Buxton, KMDIs Visiting Professor 2004/5, is a long time colleague and friend. Bill was the former Scientific Director of the Ontario Telepresence Project (1992-1995), the project in which many of the founding members of KMDI first began working together.
Bill is a designer and a researcher concerned with human aspects of technology. His work reflects a particular interest in the use of technology to support creative activities such as design, film making and music. His research specialties include technologies, techniques and theories of input to computers, technology mediated human-human collaboration, and ubiquitous computing. He is currently Principal of his own boutique design and consulting firm, Buxton Design, where his time is split between working for clients, lecturing, and trying to finish a long-delayed book on sketching and interaction design.This fall he is a part-time instructor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design. (OCAD). In association with Bruce Mau Design of Toronto, where he acts as Chief Scientist, Bill was involved in producing the exhibit on design, culture and technology which opens at the Vancouver Art Galley October 2004. The exhibit, "Massive Change: The Future of Global Design" had a room devoted to Bills input/interaction device collection.
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