Foad Hamidi

Foad Hamidi is an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He is the director of the Designing pARticipatory futurEs (DARE) Lab. His research is in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with a focus on the participatory design and evaluation of emerging interactive systems. He also pursues research in using DIY and maker approaches to facilitate creativity, learning, and empowerment for children and youth with and without disabilities. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University in Toronto, Canada.