Dr Chuan Khoo
Dr Chuan Khoo
Chuan Khoo is a creative practitioner specialising in interaction design, digital media, and physical computing.
Working across design and art, his practice explores and reflects a necessary dualism that interrogates the twin edges of technology – its optimism, the darker side of its velocity, and the ethereal nature of our digital entanglements.
Chuan is interested in researching ubiquitous computing and tangible embodied interaction. He creates bespoke embedded electronics and integrates digital frameworks to discover new relationships with digital media. His primary focus is on the concept and application of "slow data," which involves exploring design perspectives, strategies, and technological frameworks that complement, and sometimes confront, existing approaches in digitally-augmented product and experience design. A range of spatial and scalar works reflect Chuan's approach to integrating technological frameworks as material to transdisciplinary interaction design: permanent interactive public art, augmented street furniture, domestic artefacts for critical reflection, and wearable electronics.
Chuan has over 20 years of experience working and teaching in the digital design, motion and immersive experiential media industry. He headed the Diploma in Interaction Design at Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore, and before joining Monash, taught tangible embodied interaction design studios and physical computing at RMIT University. He graduated as a Digital+Media MFA graduate with honours from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has exhibited his work in Australia, Singapore, and the United States.
Chuan is the author and maintainer of Technologies for Interactivity, an open-source repository dedicated to sharing technical concepts and methods in physical computing. He is also the creator of the mote mini: a wearable-friendly IoT microcontroller platform designed to enable easier prototyping and learning for design students working with miniaturised embedded electronics. He has a rescue dog as his furever friend.
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