Daria Loi

Current

• Research Scientist at Intel Corporation

Past

• Australian Correspondent at Abitare
• Senior Research Fellow, Globalism Institute at RMIT University
• Design Studies Coordinator and Lecturer at RMIT University

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Education

• RMIT University
• Politecnico di Milano

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Industry

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Websites

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Daria Loi’s Summary

Daria Loi is Design Researcher in the User Experience Group (Digital Home, Intel Corporation), where she develops and tests usage models and design concepts for domestic environments.
In the past she has worked as architect/designer and researcher in Italy (1994-1997); researcher, coordinator and lecturer in the Industrial Design program at RMIT University (1999-2006); and Senior Research Fellow at the Globalism Institute (RMIT), working on a number of Australian Research Council projects exploring the relationships between ICT, pedagogy and T&L environments.
In 1999 Daria was Research Assistant for an Australian Research Council (ARC) SPIRT project on Urban Telecentres. Between 1999 and 2001 she has worked as a member of a multidisciplinary research team (Telstra Home Team) at the Interactive Information Institute to develop scenarios and new IT products and services for Telstra Corporation. In 2001 and 2002, funded by the Australian Federal Government, she has undertaken research in the Creator-2-Consumer Project for Common Ground Publishing exploring the potential offered by new technologies to the Printing and Publishing Industries (details at: http://c-2-
cproject.com/). In 2004 she was a Visiting Academic & Researcher at IADE (Instituto de Artes Visuais, Design e Marketing) in Lisbon, Portugal at the Escola Superior de Design and at the UNIDCOM/IADE research laboratory.
Daria has run workshops and presented her work in Europe, Australia, Canada and the USA.
Daria has to date filed 2 patents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and has extensively published in international journals as well as edited books and conference proceedings.

Daria Loi’s Specialties:

Daria's practice revolves around ethnography; Participatory Design and qualitative research practice; Human Computer Interaction; Next Generation User Interfaces; trans- and post-disciplinary research and practice; design of collaborative work environments; constructivist learning/teaching; Product-Service Systems; and Management Consulting.

Additional Information

Daria Loi’s Websites:

• My Website

Daria Loi’s Interests:

Travelling and being immersed in other cultures, art, architecture and design, methodology, digital media, books, wunderkammer, curiosity, wondrous things, alternative ways of reading/writing/doing/thinking, ballet & contemporary dance, gipsy music, sound, senses and synaesthesia, craft/work, experimental design, chaos theory, philosophy, learning, storytelling, languages... the world.

Daria Loi’s Groups:

CPSR, Include Network, ACM, ALPIS, Intel, Participatory Design Conference; Design Principle and Practice, acid

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Art & Design
•    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
•    Creative Cause
•    the Design & Emotion Society
•    Friends of Portugal
•    Friends of Australia
•    Friends of the European Union
•    Green
•    User Experience
•    International Service Design Network
•    Industrial Design
•    Design Research
•    Design Education
•    Human Factors

Daria Loi’s Honors:

:: INPS Award for Undergraduate Excellence, INPS, Italy, 1987, 1988, & 1989.
:: International Summer School of Industrial Design Award, Politecnico di Milano, 1994.
:: I-Cubed/Telstra Scholarship, Telstra and Interactive Information Institute at RMIT, 2000 & 2001.
:: BHERT Award for Outstanding Achievement in Collaboration in Education and Training. Business/Higher Education Round Table (BHERT), 2000.
:: Best of Conference – 29th Annual Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference (OBTC) – The Courage to Teach – Chapman University, CA June 2002.
:: RMIT Research Award - ARC Linkage Award for the project Learning-by-Design, December 19, 2005, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia.
:: RMIT Research Award - ARC Discovery Award for the project Pedagogies for eLearning, December 19, 2005, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia.

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