Daria Loi, currently in the Interactions & Experiences Research group at Intel Labs, holds a B.Arch. and a Ph.D. in Management/Design. Before Intel Labs, she was in charge of developing and testing next gen usages and design concepts for domestic environments in the User Experience Group part of Intel's Digital Home. In the past Daria has worked as architect and researcher in Italy; Design Studies coordinator at RMIT Industrial Design; Senior Research Fellow at the Globalism Institute; researcher for a number of Australian Research Council projects; member of the Telstra Home Team at the Interactive Information Institute; and senior researcher in the Creator-2-Consumer Project.

Daria has run workshops and presented her work in Europe, Australia, Canada, China and the USA and she is advisory board member, chair, reviewer and co-editor for a number of journals, institutes and conferences, including: CoDesign; Artifact; Participatory Design Conference; Center for Children's Learning; Journal of Computers in Human Behavior; Design Research Society; Research into Practice; and CHI. More at: http://www.darialoi.com