Joanna Berzowska

Author: Joanna Berzowska

Joanna Berzowska is the founder and research director of XS Labs, a design research studio that develops innovative methods and applications in electronic textiles and responsive garments. She is Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University and a member of the Hexagram Research Institute in Montreal. She lectures and consults internationally about the field of electronic textiles and related social, cultural, aesthetic, and political issues. Her art and design work has been shown in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC, the V&A in London, the Millenium Museum in Beijing, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, the Art Directors Club in NYC, the Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo, and Ars Electronica Center in Linz among others. Her research is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canadian Heritage, Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, and the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). She was recently selected for the Maclean\'s 2006 Honour Roll as one of \"thirty nine Canadians who make the world a better place to live in\".

Publications

Publication period start: 2012
Number of co-authors: 17

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Maksim Skorobogatiy
1
Marcelo Coelho
2
Pattie Maes
2

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Pattie Maes
37
Ivan Poupyrev
37
Roel Vertegaal
59

Publications

Berzowska, Joanna (2005): Memory rich clothing: second skins that communicate physical memory. In: Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Creativity and Cognition , 2005, . pp. 32-40. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056224.1056231

Coelho, Marcelo, Hall, Lyndl, Berzowska, Joanna, Maes, Pattie (2009): Pulp-based computing: a framework for building computers out of paper. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 3527-3528. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520525

Coelho, Marcelo, Poupyrev, Ivan, Sadi, Sajid, Vertegaal, Roel, Berzowska, Joanna, Buechley, Leah, Maes, Pattie, Oxman, Neri (2009): Programming reality: from transitive materials to organic user interfaces. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2009, . pp. 4759-4762. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1520340.1520734

Berzowska, Joanna, Beaulieu, Marc, LeClerc, Vincent, Orain, Gaia, Marchand, Catherine, Cournoyer, Catou, Paris, Emily, Frankel, Lois, Sesartic, Miliana (2009): Captain electric and battery boy: prototypes for wearable power-generating artifacts. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction , 2009, . pp. 129-136. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1709886.1709910

Berzowska, Joanna, Skorobogatiy, Maksim (2009): Karma chameleon: bragg fiber jacquard-woven photonic textiles. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction , 2009, . pp. 297-298. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1709886.1709950

Berzowska, Joanna (2012): Programming materiality. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction , 2012, . pp. 23-24. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2148131.2148136

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