Will Odom is concerned with advancing designerly approaches in the context HCI research. Among other things, his interests lie at the intersection of sustainability, interaction design, and design for everyday life. Recently, his Masters research on Personal Inventories took first place at the CHI 2008 Graduate Student Research Competition. Along with his teammate David Roedl, he took first place in the interface design competition at the 2008 Microsoft Imagine Cup. Currently, he is a Fulbright Scholar at Griffith University Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Australia. He has been known to enjoy copious amounts of espresso from time to time.

Website: http://www.willodom.com

Relevant projects:

Odom, W. 2008. Personal inventories: toward durable human-product relationships. In CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 3777-3782. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1358628.1358929

Odom, W. , Blevis, E., Stolterman, E. (2008, to appear Sept/Oct issue). Personal Inventories in the Context of Sustainability & Interaction Design. In (Blevis, E., contributing editor, Anderson, R. & Kolko, J., EICs)
Forum: Sustainably Ours. ACM Interactions. Volume XV number 5. ACM Press, New York, NY.