Anijo Mathew | Assistant Professor
Anijo Mathew is an Assistant Professor an the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. After his professional BArch from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi (India), he went on to complete an MDesS from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Prior to joining ID, he was a tenure track Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University's College of Architecture, Art, and Design (CAAD) where he taught in the graduate program and led the interaction design track at the Design Research and Informatics Lab (DRIL). He is currently working on a PhD at the Open University in the UK, exploring the intersection of computing and design.
Anijo's research interests include interactive (computer mediated) spaces,
immersive/responsive environments, environmental behavior, prototyping and
HCI in the design process. His research falls within two broad categories -
one a scholarship of pedagogy: looking at various methods and design
mechanisms for the process of design, and the other a scholarship of
research: evaluating new semantic appropriations of the built environment
(place) as enabled by new technologies. His work has earned international
repute in organizations such as SIGCHI, ACADIA, and ARCC. In 2007 the
Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) selected him as their New
Researcher of the Year for 2006-07. He currently serves on the Board of
Directors of the Association of Computing Aided Design in Architecture
(ACADIA) and a Design Chair for CHI 2010, the premier conference of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s Special Interest Group on
Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI).
Research Interests
Interactive spaces
Immersive/responsive environments
Environmental behavior
HCI in design
