Chris Hand
Chris Hand
- Lecturer and subject lead for Interaction Design
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3504-1684- Job Title
- Lecturer and subject lead for Interaction Design
- School or Academic Area
- School of Innovation and Technology
- C.Hand@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- The Glasgow School of Art, Blairs Farm Steading, Altyre Estate, Forres IV36 2SH
Biography
Chris is a creative technologist and lecturer teaching across MDes Design Innovation programmes at the Highlands and Islands campus, as well as acting as subject lead for Interaction Design. He has a broad range of experience working in Higher Education in the UK, Malaysia, India, Australia, Singapore and China.
Chris holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Manchester and MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art.
Research Interests
Focused on the intersection of interaction design, Internet of Things (IoT), physical computing, prototyping, maker culture, open source hardware/software, and how these might be applied to human and more-than-human interactions with the natural world.
Teaching
Lecturer teaching across the MDes Design Innovation programmes based at the Forres campus, with specialisms in Interaction Design, Circular Economy and Environmental Design.
Subject lead for Interaction Design. Also teaching occasional workshops on physical computing using the Arduino platform.
Latest Additions
- Ray Murray, Padmini and Hand, Chris (2015) Making Culture: Locating the Digital Humanities in India. Visible Language, 49 (3). pp. 141-155. ISSN 0022-2224
- Dunne, Tony, Raby, Fiona, Anastassiades, Michael and Hand, Chris (2012) I Am Seeing Things. Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, 25-26 Oct 2012
- Jain, Anab and Hand, Chris (2010) The Power of 8. In: Hand Made: Portraits of Emergent New Community Culture. Social Spaces, UK, pp. 178-185.
