Greg is a Human Factors Specialist in the Boston office of IDEO. He a designer and researcher who focuses his efforts on understanding human needs, telling their stories, and envisioning meaningful design solutions. Greg brings to his work broad interests in sustainability, large-scale systems, strategic thinking, photography, and visual communication. He has worked as a Design Researcher for Arizona State University and holds a Masters of Science in Design from ASU.

As Communication Design Director for IDEO's Boston office, Ian Dapot helps companies articulate ideas and strategic vision for programs ranging from retail experience, customer loyalty to brand expression. He has collaborated on projects with clients including Target, Lilly and Converse, helping them to align concepts, brand and business strategy. Prior to joining IDEO, Ian's design work included projects for companies such as Nokia, Virgin, Prada and Nike. He has also worked as a printer for artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith and Sol LeWitt.

Serena has a strong personal interest and professional experience in the intersection of technology, design, and business. This is exemplified by her varied educational background in engineering, graphic and interactive media design, and most recently a business degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has applied a multi-disciplinary approach to positively impact the world around us, from co-founding a medical device social venture to aid people in developing countries to guiding the business development of a MIT Media Lab educational spin-off company. Serena currently works as a Product Marketing Manager at Apple, where she helps shape innovative product design and marketing.

Tamara Christensen is the Leverage Director of Research at R&D Leverage in Lee's Summit, MO where she specializes in qualitative, participatory consumer insight research to fuel design and engineering efforts for plastic product development. She believes that research is a creative process and enjoys developing new research and facilitation methods to integrate research into the design process. A skilled educator and facilitator, she has designed and taught courses and workshops on creative problem solving, research methods, design methodologies, design teaching & pedagogy, sustainable community development, emotional intelligence, and Italian language & culture. She has led and participated in a variety of research programs with the same fundamental goals: to learn about people’s meaning making practices and to fuel creative processes. Tamara is a graduate and former teacher of the ASU MSD program.

Both with Nurture by Steelcase, a company focused on healthcare environments and how products in these environments can help make them more comfortable, efficient and conducive to the healing process. Goetz sits on the Evidence-based Design and Assessment Certification (EDAC) Board at the Center for Health Design; and participates with the Planetree Organization and American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers. Burraston is our Phoenix area health manager for the NURTURE product and has been involved in the R&D of this product.

Shad's first passion is anything that goes fast and creates excitement. After graduating from design school, he landed at Arctic Cat designing snowmobiles and ATVs. From snow and dirt to a dream career working in automotive design in Detroit, Shad also found time to teach design at the Center for Creative Studies and the University of Michigan. After completing his MBA in technology management, Shad took on the software industry as a consultant learning how designers leverage technology in a traditionally paper and pencil world. Now he works directly with Soldiers and Marines at General Dynamics to better understand how to make their equipment and technology more usable in hostile conditions.

Dr. Anjali Joseph is the Director of Research at The Center for Health Design. Trained as an architect, she has a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. Her work focuses on the relationship between the healthcare built environment and healthcare outcomes. She leads and coordinates the research activities at The Center. She works closely with the Center’s member healthcare organizations called the Pebble Partners in developing their research agenda, identifying research partners and in communicating the results of their research efforts through different channels. She also leads a number of grant funded research projects at The Center. Her work has been published in many peer reviewed journals. She is a regular speaker at many national and international conferences. Anjali Joseph is a member of the Health Guidelines Revision Committee of the Facilities Guidelines Institute. She also serves on the research sub-committee of the HGRC. She was voted among the top 25 most influential persons in healthcare design in 2009 in a survey conducted by Healthcare Design magazine.

Dr. Kahol is an Assistant Professor at Biomedical Informatics, ASU. His primary research interest lies in development of human-machine symbiotic entities. Kanav conducts applied research in human machine symbiosis in the area of haptic user interfaces, multimodal simulations, human movement analysis and psychology of haptics. The projects Dr. Kahol is involved in reflect his primary research interest. In the area of cognitive surgical simulations, modeling complexity and error in critical care, Dr. Kahol’s teaching interest revolves around multimedia information systems, human computer interaction, pattern recognition, virtual reality and simulation environments.

Studio 1:1 seeks to serve as a resource for community members to enhance daily life through design and building solutions. Studio 1:1 holds a core belief that good community design requires an understanding and consideration of the unique history, demographics and community structure of a neighborhood. Through the use of ethnographic research methods, 1:1 is unique in it’s ability to analyze and understand community complexities and can in turn design specific solutions customized to residents’ needs and wants.

Paul J. Nini is a Professor in the Department of Design at The Ohio State University (USA), where he currently serves as Interim Department Chairperson, and has also served as Graduate Studies Chairperson and Coordinator of the Undergraduate Visual Communication Design program. His writings have appeared in a variety of publications, and he has presented at numerous national and international design and education conferences. He is a past board member of the Graphic Design Education Association, and is a current member of the AIGA Design Educators Community Steering Committee.

MD, FACS, is Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington Medical Center, and Senior Science Advisor at the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command in Ft. Detrick, MD. He has been continuously active in surgical education and surgical research, with more than 200 publications and book chapters in diverse areas of advanced surgical technology, including Surgery in the Space Environment, Video and 3-D imaging, Telepresence Surgery, Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation, and Objective Assessment of Surgical Competence and Training. While striving to practice the complete discipline of surgery, he is aggressively pursuing the leading edge of advanced technologies to formulate the architecture for the next generation of Medicine.

Currently a 3D User Interface Designer for Google, Simpson spent 5 years as an associate Lecturer in Interaction and Multimedia Design at the The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Matt's interests are in Interaction and Web Design, with particular consideration of usability, participatory design and social networking tools. He is currently exploring a framework for informing approaches for collaborative design engagement in design firms.

In 1993, two Auburn University architecture professors, Dennis K. Ruth and the late Samuel Mockbee, established the Auburn University Rural Studio in western Alabama within the university's School of Architecture. The Rural Studio, conceived as a strategy to improve the living conditions in rural Alabama while imparting practical experience to architecture students, completed its first student-designed and constructed project in 1994. In recent years, the focus has shifted from the design and construction of small homes to larger community projects. Margaret Sledge is the instructor for the third year students.

Philip White is an ecological design strategist who develops ecologically intelligent products and systems. He specializes in helping students and practitioners apply Ecodesign strategies and advanced environmental impact assessment methods. He chairs the Ecodesign Section of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) where he established a partnership between IDSA and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He organized the development of the Okala Ecological Design Curriculum that is used by more than 40 schools of product design in North America. He writes extensively about design and ecology and published in ID Magazine (New York), Items (The Netherlands), Curve (Australia), and Innovation (US).

Matt brings 7 years of experience as an Industrial Designer, Ergonomist, and Design Researcher in a variety of product categories including consumer products, medical devices, and commercial equipment. With undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Industrial Design, and a Masters Degree in Human Factors in Design, Matt brings a unique perspective to the product development process. In addition, Matt holds a Graduate Certificate in Gerontology for his work in studying the future needs of the aging population. Prior to joining Visualize, Matt earned wide respect from his clients and peers while working at Brooks Stevens Inc and Metaphase Design Group, as well as presenting at Design and Research conferences around the country.