He co-directs the Everyday Design Studio and leads a range of projects themed within slow interaction design, the growing digitization of people’s possessions, and methods for nurturing and developing the practice of Research-through-Design. His work has received numerous best paper and honorable mention awards at ACM conferences including CHI, DIS, and Ubicomp, as well as a silver international design excellence award (IDEA) from the Industrial Designers Society of America. He holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, and was previously a Fulbright Scholar and Banting Fellow.