Center for Design Labs

The Experience Design Lab explores new approaches for how we design systems, environments, and services with a focus on how humans experience concrete situations. Some of our recent research focused on leveraging mobile eye-tracking glasses in conjunction with direct observation and interviews to integrate quantitative and qualitative data in an inquiry on how humans experience urban environments. An ongoing NSF-funded four-year project sees the lab investigate new forms of human-robot collaboration in future workplace environments. In a current collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston we are developing two data visualizations for the museum’s new Center for Netherlandish Art, that complement the visitor experience of artworks in the gallery with an insightful perspective on data from the The Hague-based Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis (team: Kristian Kloeckl, Pedro Cruz, Shan Wei, Niyati Kothari)

Experience Design Lab is directed by CfD Faculty member Kristian Kloeckl.

Transitioning from cure to care systems

The Health and Wellness Design Lab is an interdisciplinary research and teaching group. Our research explores how design can improve health and wellness on an individual to a societal scale, and transition from cure to care systems. We study these relationships and develop tools to empower community members, health workers, organizations, governments, and others to confront complex questions related to health and support social and physical infrastructure for a healthier world. Our aim is to enhance equity, justice, and dignity of people, building a culture of health and wellness through the design of products, environments, and services. We are affiliated with the Center for Design at Northeastern University, Northeastern University’s Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, the NuLawLab at Northeastern’s School of Law, and Politecnico di Milano. Our projects have received funding from: Google, The Kresge Foundation’s Arts & Culture Program, National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Experience Design Lab is co-directed by CfD Faculty member Miso Kim, CfD Staff member Estefania Ciliotta, Sara Jensen Carr, Michael Arnold Mages, Susan Mello