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.
Involved in the project(s)
Book
The New Ecology of Things
Editor, Chapter: Models
ISBN: 978-0979349508
Big Data. Big Design
Why Designers Should Care About Machine Learning - Essay: Animistic Design
ISBN: 9781616899158
Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life
Chapter
ISBN: 9781350160125
