Eli Blevis

Indiana University

Eli Blevis is on the faculty of the School of Informatics at Indiana University at Bloomington. His primary arena of teaching and research is Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCI/d), by which is meant the now established confluence of HCI and design. Prior to this point in his career, (i) Dr. Blevis has designed and managed the interactivity, algorithmic specification, and construction of production software in industry as a director level executive at Secura Insurance Companies and Unext, as a principal of Eastlake Technologies, and as a consultant to clients such as Accenture, Hallmark Cards, Equity Office Products, US Cellular, and others, (ii) he has designed and managed the interactivity, algorithmic specification, and construction of learning software and learning authorware at a major “Artificial Intelligence” lab—specifically the Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, (iii) he has taught design, especially the design of systems which integrate software, at a professionally-oriented design school—specifically the Institute of Design in Chicago, formerly known as the “New Bauhaus” and (iv) he has spent a great deal of his private life pursuing his interests in music and photography at a level no less passionate than any professional. His career is unified by the common theme of design — that is, a passion for being designerly, for understanding the role of design in the world, as a creative endeavor as well as a pervasive social construct with potential for sometimes well-advised, sometimes ill-advised, always well-intended, and oftentimes unanticipated effects on the collective human condition.