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 six continents and various disciplines.
| Name | Experience research topics | Affiliation, Country |
| Jarkko Toikkanen (Chair) | Intermedial experience, Concept of experience, Experience in literary and cultural studies | University of Oulu, Finland |
| Mat Duerden (Vice-Chair) | Conceptualizing and measuring memorable, meaningful, and transformative experiences. Experience Design. Transformative learning experiences. | Brigham Young University, UT USA |
| Markus Ahola (Treasurer) | User-centred design, Experience design | LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland |
| Bianca Frost (Secretary) | Meaningful consumption experiences and experience design | University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| Abdalla Elbadawy | Civic Experience (Governmental), Customer Experience, Employee, Experience, Experience Design, Psychology of experience | Saudi Arabia |
| Anita Kocsis | Design for experience, User/ visitor experience | Design Factory Melbourne, Swinburne University, Australia |
| Antony William Joseph | User Experience Design, Human-Centred Design, wellbeing, Usability, Eye-tracking | Aalto University, Finland |
| Barbara Neuhofer | Transformative experiences, Tourist experiences, Experience design | Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria |
| Brian Hill | Face to face experience design, Flourishing through experiences | Brigham Young University, UT USA |
| Ceyda Berk-Söderblom | Art practitioner, Cultural experience, Artistic experience, Lived experience | MiklagardArts, Finland |
| Donald McLean | Experience design ethics | Western Illinois University, IL USA |
| Gary David | Experience design, Customer experience, Employee experience, User experience | Bentley University, Waltham, MA USA |
| Gioia Laura Iannilli | Aesthetics, Experience Design, Everyday Aesthetics, Problem Solving-Problem Setting | University of Bologna/ Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy |
| Haian Xue | Design for experience and wellbeing | Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
| Harsh Manrao | Experience Design, Facility & Architecture Experience, Future Experience, Learning Experience, Patient & Health Experience, Psychology of Experience | figments EXPERIENCE LAB, India |
| Ines Montalvao | Arts and Culture, Audience Experience, Community Experience, Experience Design, Immersive Experience, Learning Experience, User Experience | Program Director at Artists with Evidence & Independent consultant, Finland |
| Johanna Silvennoinen | Predictability of experience design, Psychology of aesthetics, Affective technologies | University of Jyväskylä, MA Finland |
| Licia Calvi | Experience design, Museum experience design, Storytelling | Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands |
| Michael Lai | Customer Experience, Employee, Experience, Experience Design, Psychology of experience, User Experience, UX design | X Thinking Institute, TANG Consulting, Tongji University, China |
| Mariluz Soto | Arts and Culture, Community Experience, Customer Experience, Experience Design, Immersive Experience, Lived Experience, Patient & Health Experience, Tourism & Hospitality Experience, User Experience, UX design | Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile |
| Sandra Goh | Arts and Culture, Audience Experience, Experience Design, Lived Experience, Psychology of experience, Tourism & Hospitality Experience | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
| Sanika Inamdar | Experiencing Built and Natural Environments, Environmental Psychology, Multi-sensory Experience, User Experience | Pune University, India |
| Virpi Roto (Website Project) | Experience design, User experience, Employee experience | Aalto University, Finland |
| 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 |
| 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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