Biography of Dr. Jennifer Seevinck

Jen Seevinck is an electronic artist and researcher. She has a PhD in Computing Sciences from the Creativity and Cognition Studios at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has worked as an artist, freelance designer, researcher and educator since 1993. Her practical and research interests include interactive and concrete art, emergence, tangible computing, virtual reality and medical simulation.In particular, she is 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 visualisation etc. She has 2 patents for interactive training applications and publications in the interactive arts and interaction design fields. She has also exhibited her art at conferences and contemporary art galleries in Beijing, Tokyo, Australia and the U.S.A.