Human Technology Interaction

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Daniel Pearson Hirdes
Alumnus, Faculty of Arts (BA ’15)
> CEO and co-founder, HealthIM
> Velocity

three students reading about a design project

We have an intimate relationship with technology. It is infused in our daily life, from our home and car to our finances and health care. As we welcome new technologies into our most personal spaces, there is a growing recognition that design-based thinking needs to consider ethics and the users it serves.

Kerstin Dautenhahn
Professor, Faculty of Engineering
> Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics

What makes a machine more than just a piece of hardware? Do we form relationships with our technology? How should we be teaching robots to act? And what are they teaching us?

Richard Yim
Alumnus, Faculty of Engineering (BASc '16, MBET '17)
> Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business
> Greenhouse at St. Paul's University College
> Velocity Garage
> Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement

Jesse Hoey
Professor, Faculty of Mathematics
> David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
> Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Mei Lin Chen
MASc Candidate, Faculty of Engineering
> Member, Bionics Lab, Department of Systems Design Engineering
> Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology

A Waterloo research team is developing technology that will one day predict what you want to do – before you do it – by reading your brain signals without invasive surgery.