Beth Altringer Explained

Beth Ames Altringer
Known For:User-centered design
Design education
Doctoral Advisor:Mark de Rond
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge
University of Cape Town
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Barrett, The Honors College
Spouse:Nathan Eagle
Fields:User-centered design
Nationality:American

Beth Ames Altringer is an American designer and academic in user-centered design and design education. She is the director of the Master of Arts in Design Engineering program at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Altringer previously ran the Design Lab at Harvard University and taught design and innovation at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Harvard Business School.

Education

Altringer earned a Master's degree in Architecture from the University of Cape Town and a PhD in the psychology of design from the University of Cambridge at Emmanuel College. During a visiting scholarship at Stanford University's Computer Science Department in human-computer interaction she quantified the benefits of parallel prototyping[1] and taught at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she developed new active learning courses to improve user-centered design and emotional design pedagogy for engineers and product designers.

Design career

Altringer was an early advocate of user-centered design[2] [3] [4] and emotional design.[5] In 2010, she joined Jochen Zeitz to develop the 2025 strategy for the luxury group, Kering, including a sustainable materials design lab and the first environmental profit and loss account.[6] In 2015, Altringer joined the founding team of Piaggio Fast Forward as Chief Design Research Officer, to develop the Gita (mobile carrier) robot.[7] [8] [9] Her design studio develops learning products including the Flavor Genome Project[10] and Chef League[11] [12] [13] that explore how to help users learn their own preferences.[14] [15] Her studio is the technical launch partner for Off Their Plate, an initiative providing economic relief to restaurant workers, while providing meals and care packages for frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In its first six weeks Off Their Plate provided emergency workers with 340,000 meals and $1.7 million in economic relief to restaurant workers.[16]

Academic career

Altringer joined the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2014. She teaches several Harvard courses, including the Innovators' Practice[17] and Product and Experience Design: Experiential Lessons in Design for Desirability.[18] In 2016, students voted her one of Harvard's top 15 professors.[19] She is a founding faculty member of Harvard's joint Master of Science in Engineering and MBA Program[20] and helped launch the Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program.[21] She has published on topics including human-centered design,[22] creativity,[23] motivation and social psychology in creative work (with Beth Hennessey and Teresa Amabile),[24] [25] [26] innovation methods beyond design thinking,[27] and digital nomadic creative work.[28]

In 2021 she joined Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design as professor of practice and director of their joint Master of Arts in Design Engineering program.[29]

Awards and honors

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Dow. Steven. Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '11. Fortuna. Julie. Schwartz. Dan. Altringer. Beth. Schwartz. Daniel. Klemmer. Scott. 2011. 9781450302289. 2807. Prototyping Dynamics. 10.1145/1978942.1979359. 14028649.
  2. The intended and actual impacts of mega events. 158512814.
  3. Web site: Tsoga Project. 2020-03-08. Yumpu.
  4. Engaging with care: A vision for the health and care workforce of England. 2020-03-08. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 2010. 20203081. Altringer. B.. 15. 3. 174–7. 10.1258/jhsrp.2009.009064. 23501816.
  5. The emotional experience of patient care: A case for innovation in health care design. 2020-03-08. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 2010. 20203081. Altringer. B.. 15. 3. 174–7. 10.1258/jhsrp.2009.009064. 23501816.
  6. Web site: New standard in luxury-sport lifestyle retail sectors. 2020-01-13. Kering.
  7. Web site: Piaggio Fast-forwards to a new era. 2017-11-04. Smart Cities.
  8. Web site: Startup pioneers human-centric urban travel. 2017-11-04. Tech Explore.
  9. Web site: Gita robot. 2017-11-04. Gita website.
  10. Web site: Flavor Genome Project. 2019-12-01. Flavor Genome Project.
  11. Web site: Chef League interactive flavor learning. 2019-12-01. Chef League.
  12. Web site: 31 May 2019. Chef League challenges you to improvise recipes like the pros. 2019-12-01. VentureBeat.
  13. Web site: Cooking up an educational competition. 2019-12-01. Harvard University.
  14. Web site: Tech that helps us understand ourselves. 2019-12-01. Digital Initiative.
  15. Web site: Smart kitchens need to smarter ideas to solve real problems. 2019-12-01. Fortune.
  16. Web site: Off Their Plate. 2020-05-03. Off Their Plate.
  17. How Big Money Can Encourage Calculated Risks in the Classroom. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 11 December 2014. 2019-12-01. Berrett. Dan.
  18. Web site: Harvard Class Teaches the Design of Desirability -The unique course teaches students how to design attractive products and services. Boston Magazine. 12 February 2015. 2019-12-01.
  19. Web site: 15 Professors of the Year. The Harvard Crimson. 2019-12-01.
  20. Web site: Harvard University MSMBA in Engineering Sciences Faculty. Harvard University. 2019-12-01. 8 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200408204639/https://harvardms.mba/faculty/. dead.
  21. Web site: Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program. Harvard Business School. 2019-12-01.
  22. Book: Habbal. Fawwaz. Creating Innovation Leaders. 2016. 978-3-319-20519-9. Understanding Innovation. 149–162. Embedding Design Thinking in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Curriculum at Harvard University. 10.1007/978-3-319-20520-5_8.
  23. Web site: 26 March 2013. Present at the Creation. 2020-04-13. Boston Magazine.
  24. Book: Hennessey. Beth. Wiley Encyclopedia of Management. Moran. Seana. Altringer. Beth. Amabile. Teresa M.. 2015. 9781118785317. 1–4. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation. 10.1002/9781118785317.weom110098.
  25. Book: Hennessey. Beth A.. Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Altringer. Beth. Moran. Seana. Social Psychology of Creativity . 2017. 978-1-4614-6616-1. 1–7. 10.1007/978-1-4614-6616-1_390-2.
  26. Book: Creativity across cultures. Liber. 2020-04-13.
  27. 19 November 2013. A new model for innovation in big companies. 2020-04-13. Harvard Business Review. Altringer . Beth .
  28. Web site: Are digital nomads the future of work or too good to be true?. 2020-04-13. Forbes.
  29. Web site: Beth Altringer, Ph.D.. 2021-10-29. scholar.harvard.edu. en.
  30. Web site: Top 50 Thinkers: Emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions. Thinkers 50. 6 February 2018. 2020-05-03. 2 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200202092642/http://thinkers50.com/biographies/beth-altringer/. dead.
  31. Web site: Professors of the Year. Harvard Crimson. 2020-05-03.
  32. Web site: Tsoga Project. Yumpu. 2020-03-08.
  33. Web site: Award Recipients 2002-2003. The Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarship Advisement. 2020-03-08.

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