Allen, P. van
Philip van Allen is Program Coordinator/Researcher AI at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) working to build a long term research effort for the design of Artificial Intelligence.
Academic Background
With a background in Cognitive Psychology and software, Phil is a researcher, educator, and consultant with experience in startup, corporate, entertainment, research, and academic contexts. He works at the intersection of tangible interaction, AI/ML, IoT, and the new ecologies these create. He has developed an approach to the design of AI called Animistic Design which gives diverse, fictional personalties to smart things. In addition, he focuses on the prototyping of smart things, and created the Delft AI Toolkit — a no-code, visual authoring system for sketching and prototyping smart things.