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Marije Kanis
DISC, Brunel University
I like waiting, if I don’t realize that I am.
My design and research is about people and their (possible) needs, creating and studying tangible things, realizing futuristic scenarios, and challenging how we understand and experience interactivity and our technological environment.
From origin I am an interaction designer, whose role it is to design and study behavior. I started at the time when WWW meant waiting, waiting, waiting. Since then, technology has moved on, but my initial interest in ‘goal-less or in-between-ness interaction’ has remained. Particularly inspiring is the challenge of making interaction itself so enjoyable enough, that the end goal of interaction becomes forgotten or nonexistent, resulting into a non-target driven interactive experience.
This interest has been explored in most of my previous work that includes developing and investigating playful interactive experiences in a variety of contexts such as in the world of theatre (with company Made inda Shade), attraction parks (with Efteling, Dutch fairytale park), games (with Electronic Arts) and television (with Dutch Broadcast channel NCRV).
More recently, I worked as a researcher in the Human Connectedness group at Media Lab Europe, research partner of the MIT, exploring the theme of the future of human relationships as mediated by technology. As I am interested in understanding the deeper theoretical and methodological issues surrounding the design of technologies that support people and their needs, I started a PhD at Brunel University to investigate how ubiquitous technologies can support socio-pleasure and mediate positive behavior.
