Max Willis MFA, PhD

interaction design futures

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News and Updates

Upcoming in September 2024: Beginning this autumn, I'm excited to be joining the Universitat Polytecnico Valencia in Spain as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Systems and Computation. Looking forward to our upcoming collaborations, in particular developing sense-making activities for the human genome data model with colleagues at the Instituto Universitario Valenciano de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial.

Update August 2024: Here some information on a new interaction design project I've been developing, Risk Response, an adversarial discourse game that explores future climate change risks, impacts, mitigation and adaptation. Risk Response at zenodo

Update July 2024: At this year's FOIS conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Science we hosted the first Playing with Meanings (PwM) workshop, playing ontology games with friends and colleagues. The event was a resounding success, and we discovered together some new directions for the work of ontology-based participatory sense-making. Some more information can be found at humanfactorsinsemantics.net

Update June 2024: Once again we returned to RCIS conference on Research Challenges in Information Sciences, this time with a forum paper Ontology-based interaction design for social-ecological systems research. read it here.
In addition, at RCIS2024 we ran a quite successful game, play and collaborative modelling workshop (with 50+ participants!), some details of which you can see at this linked in post

Update Feb 2024: My updated Interaction Design Portfolio is available for download