About EXPRESSO
Vision
Understanding life, promoting well-being and increasing societal impact through research into the fundamentals of experience.
Mission
To foster cross-disciplinary collaboration around experiences to create scientific and societal impact.
Executive Committee
The members of the Executive Committee of Experience Research Society come from five continents and various disciplines.
| Name | Experience research topics | Affiliation, Country |
| Brian Hill (Chair) | Face to face experience design, Flourishing through experiences | Brigham Young University, UT USA |
| Virpi Roto (Vice Chair) | User experience, Experience design | Aalto University, Finland |
| Jarkko Toikkanen (Head of Strategy) | Intermedial experience, Concept of experience, Experience in literary and cultural studies | University of Oulu, Finland |
| Sanika Inamdar (Head of Communications) | Experiencing Built and Natural Environments, Environmental Psychology, Multi-sensory Experience, User Experience | Pune University, India |
| Licia Calvi (Head of Events) | Experience design, Museum experience design, Storytelling | Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands |
| Barbara Neuhofer (Head of Publishing) | Transformative experiences, Tourist experiences, Experience design | Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria |
| Bianca Frost (Secretary) | Meaningful consumption experiences and experience design | University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| Markus Ahola (Treasurer) | User-centred design, Experience design | LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland |
| Gary David | Experience design, Customer experience, Employee experience, User experience | Bentley University, Waltham, MA USA |
| Ceyda Berk-Söderblom | Art practitioner, Cultural experience, Artistic experience, Lived experience | MiklagardArts, Finland |
| Mat Duerden | Conceptualizing and measuring memorable, meaningful, and transformative experiences. Experience Design. Transformative learning experiences. | Brigham Young University, UT USA |
| Gioia Laura Iannilli | Aesthetics, Experience Design, Everyday Aesthetics, Problem Solving-Problem Setting | University of Bologna/ Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy |
| Antony William Joseph | User Experience, Human-Centred Design, Usability research, Eye-tracking | Aalto University, Finland |
| Anita Kocsis | Design for experience, User/ visitor experience | Design Factory Melbourne, Swinbure University, Australia |
| Michael Lai | Customer Experience, Employee Experience, Experience Design, Psychology of experience, User Experience, UX design | X Thinking Institute, TANG Consulting, Tongji University, China |
| Yichen Lu | Customer Experience, Employee Experience, Experience Design, Future Experience, Psychology of Experience, User Experience, UX design | Assistant Professor, School of Design, Jiangnan University, Wuxi City, China |
| Harsh Manrao | Experience Design, Facility & Architecture Experience, Future Experience, Learning Experience, Patient & Health Experience, Psychology of Experience | figments EXPERIENCE LAB, India |
| Donald McLean | Experience design ethics | Western Illinois University, IL USA |
| Ines Montalvao | Arts and Culture, Audience Experience, Community Experience, Experience Design, Immersive Experience, Learning Experience, User Experience | Independent consultant, Finland |
| Johanna Silvennoinen | Predictability of experience design, Psychology of aesthetics, Affective technologies | University of Jyväskylä, MA Finland |
| James Wallman | Experience & time design | World Experience Organization, UK |
| Haian Xue | Design for experience and wellbeing | Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
| Ye Zhang | Transformative experience design for Tourism and Hospitality Customers and Employees, Positive-psychology-based experience research, Service experience management | Florida Atlantic University, FL USA |
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