Peter Coppin

Dr. Peter Coppin, Program Chair of Industrial Design, Director of the Perceptual Artifacts Lab and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design, is an inclusive designer, visual artist, and cognitive scientist. His work seeks to improve information inclusion through a better understanding of how individuals make use of their diverse perceptual-cultural-motor capabilities to interact with interfaces and other designs (such as diagrammatic reasoning in problem solving and auditory display alternatives to charts, graphs, and maps). His published work has focused on these areas in addition to e-learning, telescience, human-robot interaction, neurodiversity, data analytics, and Earth-planetary data representation. In Canada, his work has been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Natural Science and Engineering Council, Centre for Innovation in Data-Driven Design, Ontario Ministry of Training and Colleges, MITACS, and NCE GRAND. His US work was funded by multiple NASA programs, the National Science Foundation, Heinz Endowments and the R.K. Mellon, Buhl and Laurel Foundations. His electronic media art-designs have been exhibited internationally, including Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), the SIGGRAPH Touchware Exhibition (Orlando, Florida, USA), MIR: Art&Space (Bolzono, Italy), and the Adler Museum (Chicago, Illinois, USA).