Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of legible sensing technology.
We are a non-profit bringing designers, technologists, artists, and creatives together to work towards a new understanding for sensing technology — technology that serves what makes us human, empowers the best in us and enables deeper connections between individuals.
We leverage our experience designing and developing products in ethical grey-zones to create approaches that carefully consider the needs of real people, and those affected sensing technologies, outside of their control. This means we’re willing to be very bold in the actions we take to ensure our technology is a robustly positive force for good.
We provide resources to anyone wanting to put our framework into practice. Based on our own published peer-reviewed research and product envisioning, we believe that technology should enable us to exercise our most human strengths: care, inquisitiveness, and self-control.
James Pierce
Principle Investigator + Project Lead
I am an Associate Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Washington Seattle.
I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Human Centered Design and Engineering Department at University of Washington, a member of the MHCI+D Faculty Group, and an Amazon Scholar at Amazon Web Services.
I investigate how interfaces mediate human action, perception, and social practices. My research combines techniques of design prototyping, qualitative methods, and critical perspectives to understand and address social issues connected to computing technology. I have applied this interdisciplinary approach to my research in the domains of digital privacy and surveillance, environmental sustainability and energy independence, and information overload and technology addiction. I am particularly concerned with new and emerging technologies that mediate between digital and physical materiality such as networked, sensor-enabled, and data-driven Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Funded by the National Science Foundation, my current research addresses trust, control, and inclusivity with interactive consumer products.
Wyatt Olson
Lead Interaction Designer
Wyatt Olson is an experienced interaction designer and creative director, holding a Master of Design in Interaction Design from the University of Washington. With a strong foundation in visual design, system design, and product design, he has consistently driven innovation in interaction models, brand positioning, and speculative deployments of Legible Sensing technologies.
At Legible Sensing, he has successfully led impactful projects across mediums, utilizing his experience developing robust content management systems to design and develop Legible Sensing’s online presence and Guidebook™ resources, alongside hands-on work directing concept and envisioning videos for Arca, Legible Sensing's central case study.
Over the past ten years, Wyatt has conducted critical research and design projects through concept development, product development, and production, combining the future, ethics, and critical questions about trust and user agency.
Hope Terpilowski
Visual Designer
Hope is a visual designer based in Seattle, WA, holding a B.Des from the University of Washington. She enjoys using design as a vehicle for attempting to understand the universe.
Robyn Anderson
User Researcher
