Work Experience

Consulting
IxDS - Interaction Design Studios GmbH
Senior Interaction Designer
Managing Director since 01/2009
 03/ 2007 - present
Academic
Interaction Research Studio, Goldsmiths College London
Research on home sensor networks
05/ 2010 - present
Interaction Design Lab, FH Potsdam
Project Lead for energy consumption research project Consuming Energy
08/ 2010 - present
Project Lead for open-source design tool Fritzing
07/ 2007 - present
Concepts and Prototypes for Ambient Vehicle Interfaces
with Volkswagen Design Center
11/ 2008 - 05/2009
Concepts for Tangible Interfaces for Mobile Devices,
with Deutsche Telekom Research Laboratories
05/ 2006 - 09/ 2006
Faculty of Media Art and Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Project Lead for Fritzing
04/ 2008 - 09 /2008
Teaching
Department of Design, Hochschule Anhalt/Bauhaus Dessau
Introductory Interaction Design course "rfid mon plaisir", 3rd semester
10/ 2008 - 02/ 2009
 
btk fh, Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule
Course on "Ubiquitous Interfaces", 4th semester
09/ 2006 - 02/ 2007
btk ak, Berliner Technische Kunstschule
Course on "Information Design for Weblogs", 6th semester
04/ 2006 - 07/ 2006
...and lots of Fritzing/Arduino Workshops (see below)
..before
Assistance Project Realisation
m.o.l.i.t.o.r. - art in motion / Frank Fietzek, Berlin
07/ 2004
 
Media Design
Responsible for all visual design
InVision Software AG, Düsseldorf
2001 - 2003
 
Freelance Web Design, Concept, Programming & Administration
Clients: Sabrina Theissen Photography, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, InVision Software AG, Falksson
1999 - 2007

Education

 
Fachhochschule Potsdam Potsdam, Germany
Master of Design (Interface Design)
Master Thesis "Design Tools Design"
 10/ 2006 - 10/ 2008
 
Private Fachhochschule Wedel Wedel, Germany
Media and Computer Science (Focus Human-Computer Interaction)
Diploma Thesis "Free the body and the mind will follow"
10/ 2001 - 03/ 2006
 
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, Switzerland
Interaction Design (DAAD scholarship)
10/ 2004 - 02/ 2005
 
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine London, UK
MSci Joint Mathematics and Computer Science (quit early)
10/ 2000 - 03/ 2001
 
European College of Liberal Arts Berlin, Germany
International Summer University in Liberal Arts
Summer 2000

Publications

Academic
 
Knörig, A., Howell, B. Studio: Advanced Prototyping with Fritzing. pdf acm
In Proceedings of Tangible, Embodied and Embedded Interfaces 2010. Cambridge, Mass. 341-343.
 
Knörig, A., Wettach, R., Cohen, J. Fritzing – A tool for advancing electronic prototyping for designers. pdf acm
In Proceedings of Tangible and Embedded Interfaces 2009. Cambridge, UK. 351-358.
 
Hemmert, F., Knörig, A., Wettach, R., Joost, G. Stick, Click‘n Call: Self-adhesive Pressure-Activated RFID Tags for Mobile Phones. pdf acm
In Proceedings of Tangible and Embedded Interfaces 2009. Cambridge, UK. 283-284.
 
Knörig, A. 2008. Design Tools Design: How to design tools for designers, and a proposal of two new tools for the design of physical interactions. pdf, high-res pdf
Master Thesis, Univ. of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
 
Hemmert, F., Knörig, A., Wettach, R., Joost, G. Dynamic Knobs: Shape Change as a Means of Interaction on a Mobile Phone. paper, poster, presentation, acm
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Florence, Italy.CHI '08. 2309-2314.
 
Knörig, A. 2007. The bodily aspect in computer-supported creativity. paper, proposal, acm
In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity & Cognition. Washington, DC, USA. C&C '07. ACM Press, New York, NY, 287.
 
Knörig, A., Müller, B., Wettach, R. 2007. Articulated Paint: Musical Expression for Non-Musicians. paper, poster, acm
In Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. New York, NY, USA. NIME '07. 384-385.
 
Knörig, A. 2006. Free the body and the mind will follow: An investigation into the role of the human body in creativity, and its application to HCI. overview, pdf
Diploma Thesis, Univ. of Applied Sciences Wedel.
Reviewing
TEI 2011
Other
Neoanalog - Leiblichkeit und Kreativität.
In acar2: from artefact to actefact. Catalogue of Ars Electronica 2007 Campus, 212-214. Basel 2007, Verlag HyperWerk HGK FHNW. pdf, www
 
Fritzing - A common language to exchange ideas
In Open Design Now. 221. Amsterdam 2011, BIS Publishers. www
Features
 
Work at IxDS featured in "Doing It For Themselves".
In Viewpoint Magazine #27, 2010. www
Fritzing featured in article "Kluge Dinge: Das neue Netz" (Smart Things: The New Web).
In DE:BUG 127.2008. www
Articulated Paint featured in article "DIY07".
In DE:BUG 115.2007. pdf, www
 
Design Research for T-Labs featured in book "100 Products of the Future", chapter on "Technology".
In Hänsch, Theodor W. 2007. 100 Produkte der Zukunft, 140-141. Econ Verlag. amazon
 
Design Research for T-Labs featured in article "Neuer Forschergeist".
In PAGE 12.2006, 32-37. www
 
Interface concept for VR construction, featured in book chapter "Das Interface als Handlungsraum".
In Khazaeli, Cyrus. 2005. Systemisches Design: Intelligente Oberflächen für Information und Interaktion. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg. amazon

Talks & Workshops

Invited Talks
Fritzing - Creative Electronics for the rest of us
Create Art & Technology, Berlin, 2011
 
Motivating Sustainable Behaviour through Interaction Design
Global Sustainability Jam, Berlin, 2011
 
Build a Sustainable Ecosystem around Fritzing
Sketching in Hardware '11, Philadelphia, 2011
 
Fritzing as a Case of Open Design
Mozilla Drumbeat Festival, MACBA Barcelona, 2010
 
Kreatives Arbeiten mit Hardware video
Creative Coding, University of Bayreuth, 2010
 
Fritzing - Advancing Electronic Prototyping for Designers video
IxD Fall Summit '09, Umea School of Design, 2009
 
Fritzing as a platform for the Sketching community
Sketching in Hardware '09, University College London, 2009
 
Fritzing - Open-Source Hardware for Non-Engineers
GOSH!, Banff New Media Centre, 2009
 
Electronic Prototyping for the rest of us
Art vs. Technology, DIMA Berlin, 2009
 
Fritzing as an Open Design Platform
Open Everything, newthinkingstore Berlin, 2009
 
Rapid Prototyping of Interactive Electronics
UXcamp Europe, Free University Berlin, 2009
 
From Prototype to Product with Fritzing
Department of Design, University of Weimar 2008
Workshops
Fritzing Workshops
Create Art & Technology, Berlin, 2011
Nordakademie, Elmshorn, 2011
Mal au Pixel, Paris, 2011
Node Festival, Frankfurt, 2010
DMY, Berlin, 2010
Pixelache, Helsinki, 2010
M.I.T. Media Lab, Cambridge, 2010
Umea School of Design, 2009
Banff New Media Centre, 2009
hardhack, c-base Berlin, 2009
University of Weimar, 2008

Exhibitions

 
TEI Cambridge, UK
Stick, Click 'n' Call & Fritzing in Exhibition www
16.-18.2.2009
 
CHI Florence, Italy
Dynamic Knobs presented in Interactivity Exhibit www
7.-10.4.2008
 
Applaus Potsdam, Germany
Articulated Paint shown at degree show of FH Potsdam www
11.-13.10.2007
 
Ars Electronica campus2.0 Linz, Austria
Articulated Paint shown as part of FH Potsdam's "Musical Interfaces" www
Awarded the campus2.0-prize
5.-11.9.2007
 
NIME New York, USA
Articulated Paint presented in Demo Session www
6.-10.6.2007

Skills

Expertise
Interaction Design from concept to realisation, across software and hardware

Languages
German (+++), English (++), Dutch (+), French (+-)

Toolbox
Design
Sketching, Webdesign,Screendesign, Animation and Interaction, Retouching, Illustration, Desktop Publishing, Video Editing, 3D-Modeling, Audio
Programming
Object-orientied (Java, C++, Python, ActionScript), Procedural (C, Pascal), Functional (Haskell), Scripting (JavaScript, Tcl, Unix), Graphical (OpenGL, Processing, Jitter), Databases (SQL, XML, ZODB), Server-Side (Zope/CMF/Plone)
 
Hardware
Prototyping Boards (Arduino, BasicStamp, Phidgets), Prototyping Software (processing, pd, vvvv), Mobile (J2ME, Android)

Further Activities

Affiliations
ACM SIGCHI, IxDA, GI AK Begreifbare Interaktionen, Plone CMS
Music
Saxophone
Enjoyments
literature, movies, discussions, any kind of music, contemporary arts, drama, sports