## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [Overview](/index%2Ephp/academics) 3. [Faculty Members](/index%2Ephp/academics/explore-faculty) 4. [Kate Hartman](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/3941) # Kate Hartman ![](https://ultima7-its.ocadu.ca/bios/khartman/portrait) khartman@ocadu.ca Faculty Information Associate Professor, Tenured Faculty of Arts & Science Areas of Expertiseelectronic textiles Physical Computing social wearables wearable technology Kate Hartman is an Associate Professor at OCAD University in Toronto, where she is the Founding Director of Social Body Lab - a research and development team dedicated to exploring body-centric technologies in the social context. She is an Adjunct Instructor and Director of ITP Camp at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. She is the author of the book "Make: Wearable Electronics", was an artist‐in‐residence at Autodesk’s Pier 9, and has work included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Hartman is interested in people and the nuances and awkward bits of their social interactions. Her research and practice sit at the intersection of physical computing, participatory art, design research, and human-computer interaction. Through the use of wearable technologies, electronic textiles, and digital fabrication techniques she explores new possibilities for expressive, tactile, and embodied interactions. ### Works #### SOFT OBJECTS: Prototyping for Tactile Interpersonal Communication Published: December 31st 2025 [View Article »](https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735440) #### SYMBIONT: Designing Bioinspired Objects for Tactile Interpersonal Communication Published: December 31st 2025 [View Article »](https://doi.org/10.1145/3715668.3735614) #### Make: Wearable Electronics, 2nd Edition Design, prototype, and wear your own interactive garments Make Community, LLC Published: December 31st 2025 [View Article »](https://www.makershed.com/products/make-wearable-electronics-2nd-edition-print) #### Designing Wearable Technology for Opera Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference Published: October 7th 2023 [View Article »](https://doi-org.ocadu.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3563657.3596113) #### Toolkits & Wearables: Developing Toolkits for Exploring Wearable Designs Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Published: October 7th 2022 [View Article »](https://doi-org.ocadu.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3491101.3503715) #### Textile Game Controllers: Exploring Affordances of E-Textile Techniques as Applied to Alternative Game Controllers Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Published: October 7th 2021 [View Article »](https://doi-org.ocadu.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3430524.3446069) #### Encasing Computation: Using Digital Fabrication Approaches to Make Microcontrollers Wearable Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Published: October 7th 2020 [View Article »](https://doi-org.ocadu.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3374920.3375004) #### Heart Waves: A Heart Rate Feedback System Using Water Sounds Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Published: October 7th 2020 [View Article »](https://doi-org.ocadu.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3374920.3374982) #### Monarch V2: An Iterative Design Approach to Prototyping a Wearable Electronics Project Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference Published: October 7th 2020 [View Article »](https://doi-org.ocadu.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3357236.3395573) #### Kinetic Body Extensions for Social Interactions Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Published: December 31st 2018 [View Article »](http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173333) #### Monarch: Self-Expression Through Wearable Kinetic Textiles Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Published: October 7th 2015 [View Article »](https://doi-org.ocadu.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/2677199.2690875) ### Education #### MPS **Type:** Interactive Telecommunications Program New York University #### BA **Type:** Film and Electronic Arts Bard College ### Employment #### Associate Professor **Type:** Digital Futures, Faculty of Arts and Science & School of Graduate Studies OCAD University #### Founding Director Social Body Lab