Chris Lim

Chris is a lecturer (assistant professor) in product design and interaction design at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. He has a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Singapore) and holds a BEng (1st Class Hons) in Product Design Engineering and PhD in Inclusive Design from the University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art.

Chris worked as a research lead and designer at design consultancy Nomad-RDC working with various collaborators which includes Vitra, Page\Park and WilkisonEyre. Returning to academia, he was a research fellow at the Digital World Research Centre (University of Surrey), working in a cross-disciplinary project (Sus-IT) funded by the ESRC New Dynamics of Ageing programme. It looked at the engagement of older people in the co-design process of developing novel and innovative ICT products. He was involved in the development of Com.Cam, an open source media sharing device funded by EPSRC University of Surrey Knowledge Transfer Account for communities with low textual and computing literacy and limited power and network coverage.