Dr William Odom

Dr William Odom is Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, where he is founder and director of the Homeware Lab.

Dr Odom's research group takes an interdisciplinary, collaborative, creative, and design-oriented approach to Human-Computer Interaction research.

His work has been published in over 120 peer-reviewed publications at venues including the ACM CHI, DIS, Ubicomp, Creativity & Cognition, CSCW conferences, and the journal Design Issues. He is the co-recipient of 7 best paper awards (CHI 2011, Ubicomp 2011, DIS 2012, CHI 2014, DIS 2018, DIS 2018, CHI 2019) and 9 best paper honorable mention awards (CHI 2010, CHI 2013, CHI 2016, DIS 2016, DIS 2016, CHI 2018, DIS ’19, CHI ’20, DIS ‘20). Please see my lab’s Publications or my Google Scholar profile for more details.

His work on the Technology Heirlooms project in collaboration with Microsoft Research received a silver international design excellence award (IDEA) for design research from the Industrial Designers Society of America. He won the Imagine Cup Design competition in Interaction Design held at the Louvre in Paris, France. He holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia, a Design United Research Fellow in the Netherlands, and a Banting Fellow in Canada.