Jennifer Seevinck

Jen Seevinck is an electronic artist, researcher and lecturer in Interactive and Visual Design. She has a Ph.D. in computing sciences from the Creativity and Cognition Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney and further education in the electronic arts (ANU) and architectural design studies (UQ). She has worked as an artist, freelance designer, researcher and educator since 1993. Her practical and research interests include interaction design and visualisation; specifically interactive and concrete art, emergence, tangible computing, virtual reality and medical simulation. She is most interested in new and surprising interaction behaviours that occur during people’s interaction with systems. She has developed many interactive training applications, mostly using state-of-the-art interaction technologies and applied to medicine, space, data visualization and engineering. She has contributed to patents for interactive training applications in the USA and has several publications in the interactive arts and interaction design fields. She has exhibited her art at conferences and contemporary art galleries in Beijing, Tokyo, Australia and the U.S.A. Currently Jen is involved with Cerebral Palsy League on a collaborative art project researching visualization and interaction design for the physically disabled.