STAFF PROFILE
Ms Leah Heiss
Position:
Senior Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
Communication Design Cluster
School / Department:
Design Futures
Email:
leah.heiss@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- Heiss, L.,Bush, M.,Foley, M. (2020). One Good Death Tactile, Haptic, and Empathic Co-design for End-of-Life Experience In: The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art, Routledge, New York, United States
- Heiss, L. (2020). Iterative Prototypes as �Boundary Objects�: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration of a Modular Hearing Aid In: The Design Journal, 23, 865 - 883
- Heiss, L.,Beckett, P.,Luke, E.,Matthews, G.,Bush, M. (2019). CaT Pin In: Agency by Design: Expressive Design for Disability Brisbane, Australia
- Heiss, L. (2018). Facett In: 2018 Good Design Awards Melbourne, Australia
- Heiss, L. (2018). Hearing Aid Design Process In: Museums Victoria Heritage Collection Melbourne, Australia
- Heiss, L.,Macarow, K.,Beckett, P. (2018). Smart Heart In: Handle with Care at Reciprocity: Design Liege (Triennial of Design and Social Innovation) Liege, Belgium
- Heiss, L. (2018). Inhabiting practices: Operating between art, design, science and technology In: Undesign Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design, Routledge, London
- Heiss, L.,Beckett, P.,Carr-Bottomley, A. (2016). Redesigning the trans-disciplinary: working across design, craft and technological boundaries to deliver an integrated wearable for cardiac monitoring In: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Brisbane, Australia, 4-6 June 2016
- Heiss, L. (2015). IHearYou In: Good Design Awards Sydney, Australia
- Heiss, L. (2014). Constellation In: thisness Collingwood, Australia
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 PhD Completions3 PhD Current Supervisions
Wearable technology; Art/science collaboration; Interior design; Next generation technologies in art practice; Nanotechnology in art practice.