
About the Author
KATE HARTMAN is an Associate Professor at
OCAD University in Toronto, where she is the
founding director of Social Body Lab, a research
and design team dedicated to exploring body-
centric technologies in the social context.
Hartman is also an adjunct instructor at the
Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
and director of ITP Camp at New York University.
As an artist and creative technologist interested in the nuances and awkward bits of
social interactions, Hartman’s research and practice sit at the intersection of design
research, participatory art, and human-computer interaction. Through the use of
wearable technologies, ...