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Humanising Technology Studio

Last updated 7 April 2021

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The Humanising Technology studio explores how mobility experiences and services may be transformed by the impact of emerging technologies and how these can be made accessible, usable, and enjoyable by understanding people and leveraging creative methods.

Humanising Technology
  • Create designs for trust, sense of safety, comfort and wellbeing
  • Develop new in-vehicle activities and user experiences (UX)
  • Assess accessibility of vehicles and mobility services
  • Embed cultural and societal differences in technology ethics
  • Explore emotional responses to technologies

Staff

Dr Jiayu (Zoe) Wu

Dr Jiayu (Zoe) Wu

Reader in Intelligent Mobility Design

Jiayu is an innovation methods educator for technology and business integration, and a professional user experience designer for the new mobility and automobile industries.

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