Congratulations to undergrad researcher Hannah Hudson who will be heading off to Chrysler to help design and implement IT tools to foster group idea management and project collaboration!
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Paper accepted at Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference 2013
Our paper titled “Affect and Creative Performance on Crowdsourcing Platforms” was accepted to the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference. The research was led by MIT’s, Rob Morris, to understand how affect can influence creative performance in microtask
crowdsourcing environments.
Morris, R. Dontcheva, M., Finkelstein, A. Gerber, E. Affect and Creative Performance on Crowdsourcing Platforms,” ACII 2013
Design for America on ABC
Congratulations to Northwestern’s Design for America’s team for their work featured on ABC news. Excellent job team!
Design for America Fellow Thea Klein-Mayer to speak at TEDx
Design for America’s Fellow, Thea Klein-Mayer, spoke today at TEDx U of Chicago. We are so grateful for her amazing creativity and commitment to the success of the Design for America network.
Daniel Lewis Rees receives Cognitive Science Fellowship
Congratulations to Design for America’s instructional designer, Daniel Lewis Rees, for receiving Northwestern’s Cognitive Science Fellowship for his research on case-based reasoning and innovation education. I am honored to be co-advising him with Dr. Matt Easterday. The Loft would not be possible without his creativity and hard work.
Dian Yu receives Cognitive Science Graduate Fellowship
Congratulations to Dian Yu for receiving the Cognitive Science Graduate Fellowship for her proposed research to understand visual dissonance to improve graphic design. I am thrilled to be co-advising her with cognitive psychologist, Dr. Steven Franconeri.
Thanks to Scott Drucker for his short video on Design for America
Chicago Filmmaker Scott Drucker spend the summer recording Design for America and creating an informative overview video of our work. Thanks Scott!
Check out Design Chicago on April 10th
We are hosting the the seventh annual Design:Chicago seminar. The speakers will discuss “Leadership by Design”: how leaders structure their organizations to harness and use design of products, services, processes, and organizations as a competitive strength and opportunity for change in today’s corporate landscape. Leaders from Harley-Davidson Motor Co., Kitchen & Bath Americas at Kohler Co., Logitech International SA, Sonim Technologies, and Target Corporation will discuss Leadership by Design.
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet Navi Radjou on April 12th at the Segal Design Institute and Kellogg School of Management
On Friday, April 12th from noon to 1pm, we are thrilled to be hosting Navi Radjou at the Segal Design Institute and Kellogg School of Management. He will discuss frugal innovation.
The lecture will take place on the Northwestern/Evanston campus in Jacobs G45. The lecture is open to all.
FRUGAL INNOVATION: A DISRUPTIVE NEW BUSINESS (and SOCIAL) PARADIGM
Frugal innovation is the ability to “do more with less”: that is, to reduce complexity and create significantly more business and social value while minimizing the use of increasingly limited resources. Thousands of inventive entrepreneurs and firms in resource-constrained emerging markets like India, China, Africa, and Brazil apply frugal innovation techniques to create simple but highly-effective solutions that deliver more value to customers at lower cost. Using many real-life case studies (Renault-Nissan, GE, Siemens, Unilever), Navi will show how you can apply the frugal innovation tools, techniques and mindset to address the needs of cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers worldwide in sectors ranging from healthcare to manufacturing to energy to education to financial services. Navi will also describe the grassroots “frugal innovation movement” unfolding across US and Europe, led by progressive government agencies like FEMA and SCIP, next-gen incubators like TechShop and Rock Health, and visionary universities like Stanford and MIT.
About Navi:
Navi Radjou is an innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley. He is also a Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a World Economic Forum (WEF) faculty member. He is a member of WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation and a regular columnist on HBR.org. Navi is co-author of the bestseller “Jugaad Innovation” which The Economist calls “the most comprehensive book yet to appear on the subject” of frugal innovation. Navi is also co-author of “From Smart To Wise,” a book that PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi calls “a practical guide for accelerating your own wise leadership development.” An Indian-born French national, Navi lives in Palo Alto, CA. http://NaviRadjou.com
University Sponsored Crowdfunding WIP accepted at the 2013 Team Science Conference
PhD candidate, Remy Briam’s Work in Progress titled “Analysis of a Team Effort in Coordinating Resources Through a University-Sponsored Crowdfunding Platform” was accepted by the 2013 Team Science Conference.
Novice entrepreneurs are continually seeking ways to fund their projects. One increasingly popular funding mechanism is crowdfunding. Today many crowdfunding platforms exist, but few platforms are geared specifically toward a university community. This study considers the role of crowdfunding in the university and the coordination between stakeholders including students, alumni, alumni relations, mentors, faculty, administrators, and researchers.