Jim Budd is currently the Chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial Design. Until 2010, he was associate professor of industrial and interaction design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he headed the Wearables and Interactive Products Lab. He has 15 years of academic and research leadership in human-centered, interactive product design, as well as two decades of corporate design experience. He has an extensive research and publication record and has received several design and teaching awards.