HAMED ALAVI

h.alavi@uva.nl

DESIGN, DATA, INCLUSION

With a PhD in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), and having completed a post-doctoral research stay at University College London (UCL), I am currently a tenured assisstant professor and a founding member of the Digital Interaction Lab at the University of Amsterdam. In addition to my academc activities, I led a start-up company for eight years with a global impact in the field of educational technologies.

My current research explores the evolving relationship between humans and built environments as they increasingly incorporate new form of intelligence and interactivity, contemplating how we might co-create inclusive spaces that reflect and shape our collective values, identities, and ways of being—across both architectural and urban dimensions.






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Recent publications and News ︎:


CHI’25 [Best Paper Award] What Do We Design for When We Design" Smart Buildings"?-A Scoping Review of Human Experience Design Research in Buildings




DIS’25 [Accepted Full Paper] Designing Multisensory Biophilic Futures