Bio

With nearly a decade of industry experience in Silicon Valley, Lauren Bedal has helped startups and Fortune 100 companies bring emerging technologies to market. A thought leader on embodied interaction, Lauren combines her expertise on choreography and interaction design to help companies like Google invent input languages beyond traditional touch input (gestures, proximity, gaze). Her contributions to the field of HCI have resulted in patents, academic papers, and speaking invitations as well as recognition from the New York Times, Forbes, and Fast Company. Speaking: 2022: CES, CTA Fall Forum, San Diego California 2022: AWE - Santa Clara, California 2022: Harvard University, WeCode 2022: Northeastern University, Center for Design 2021: DCD, Evolve Workshop, UK 2020: UX University (Google) 2020: CRCI @ Brown University 2019: UX University (Google) 2018: MIT, 'Embodied Interaction Design' 2017: AWE, Munich Germany 'Embodied Interaction Design' Writing/Press: 2022: Motion and Gesture Sensing for Radar (Chapter 8) 2022: Google Keyword Blog https://blog.google/products/atap/how-computers-can-use-radar-to-understand-nonverbal-cues/ 2022: Wired Magazine, Nonverbal Interactions with Soli: https://tinyurl.com/34ep24az 2022: Engaget : https://www.engadget.com/google-atap-new-interaction-language-nonverbal-soli-170025064.html 2022: Fast Co : https://www.fastcompany.com/90725730/google-is-designing-computers-that-respect-your-personal-space 2021: RadarNet ACM CHI (Co-author, Best Paper Award) 2020: Dance Magazine Interview on Choreographic Interfaces: https://bit.ly/33SiuJL 2020: Google Design https://design.google/library/a-new-interaction-language/ 2018: Designing for the Human Body in XR: http://bit.ly/2j2Iqfg 2017: Embodied interaction: https://bit.ly/2JJtPT4 Patents: Facilitating User-Proficiency in Using Radar Gestures to Interact with an Electronic Device: https://patents.google.com/patent/CN110908516A Visual Indicator for Paused Radar Gestures :https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2021040748A1 Performance/Choreography: Ongoing Movement Research @syncopated.objects 2020: “Hummingbird” Music Video for Joel St. Julien 2020: “It Fits” Music Video for Michael Wall 2019: International Conference of Movement and Computing MOCO - Phoenix, Arizona 2018: International Conference of Movement and Computing MOCO - Genova, Italy 2018: Midway Gallery, Illum Festival - San Francisco, CA 2018: CODAME Festival - Darmstadt, Germany 2018: CODAME Festival - San Francisco, CA