Lin-Lin Chen

Design Professor and Dean Industrial Design Dept./ TU Eindhoven

Lin-Lin Chen is Full Professor and chair of Design Innovation Strategy. Chen is dean of the Industrial Design Department. Chen conducts research on user interfaces for the Internet of Things, design innovation strategy and aesthetics of forms and intelligence. Her research focuses on product aesthetics, design innovation and interaction design for smart things. She believes smart objects need to be supporting our lives, not running our lives. They should observe our daily behavior and understand what would be a good reaction and when. Chen is editor-in-chief of International Journal of Design (SCI, SSCI, AHCI). Together with dr. Yaliang Chuang, she started the journal from scratch and built it into one of the top journals in design.