Contact:
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
School of Engineering
Bahnhofstrasse 6
CH-5210 Windisch, Switzerland
anton [dot] fedosov [at] fhnw [dot] ch
Hi, I am Anton! I am a professor of digital experience design at the Institute for Interactive Technologies at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. I am interested in social aspects of ubiquitous technologies and design-oriented human-computer interaction. From October 2019 until December 2023 I was a postdoctoral design researcher at the University of Zurich. I worked with Elaine Huang at People and Computing Lab. My research interests lie around constructive design research and collaborative economies with a particular focus on interaction and UX design. I reflect on some ideas around that together with Susanne Bødker, a renowned Danish computer scientist, in this podcast episode. In September 2019 I have received a Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Informatics at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano (Switzerland) in the Human-Computer Interaction research area. There I worked with Marc Langheinrich at the Research Group for Ubiquitous Computing. My doctoral dissertation investigated the intricacies of user experience around contemporary sharing practices of personal digital information and physical objects in the contexts of outdoor sports and everyday consumption. It was published in 2020 as an open access book. In 2016/17 I was a visiting design researcher at the Everyday Design Studio in the School of Interactive Arts + Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada), where I collaborated with William Odom and Ron Wakkary. My research visit was sponsored by a Swiss National Science Foundation Mobility grant.
Previously, I worked in Sony Mobile Communications (San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA), Metaio GmbH (Munich, Germany) and Ricoh Company Co. Ltd (Tokyo, Japan), gaining hands-on technology prototyping and UX design expertise in the context of mobile augmented reality, wearable devices, and cross-device interactivity. Prior to that, I received a Master of Science degree with the focus on software and services for information society at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. I worked with Andrea Vitaletti at the Wireless Sensor Network research group.
My work is published in over 40 peer-reviewed articles at the top UX-related venues including ACM CHI, DIS, CSCW, MobileHCI, NordiCHI, and Ubicomp. The Roaming Objects project received a best paper award at DIS 2018 and the SkiAR project received a best paper honorable mention award at MUM 2016. In addition to that, some of my award-winning work was presented at the Swiss Pavilion at CeBIT (2016/17), the largest computer expo in Europe, and at the Mobile World Congress 2010, the world’s largest exhibitions for the mobile industry. Check out my CV and Publications for more details.