Eli Blevis, PhD Professor of Informatics
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Eli Blevis is a designer, photographer, and a professor. Nowadays, he is Professor of Informatics at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (Luddy) at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He has also served on the faculty of The Institute of Design in Chicago, and as an Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design. He is best known for his scholarship about Sustainable Interaction Design, and for his scholarship about visual forms in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Design.

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Papers… About

Eli Blevis is a designer, photographer, and a professor. Nowadays, he is Professor of Informatics at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (Luddy) at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He has also served on the faculty of The Institute of Design in Chicago, and as an Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design. He is best known for his scholarship about Sustainable Interaction Design, and for his scholarship about visual forms in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Design..

This and all images on this site (c) E.Blevis, all rights reserved.

Papers… About

Selected Papers & …

New or Awarded Papers ( Others by theme: Sustainability Design Education & Theory Visual Thinking Syllabi )

New or Awarded Papers

Shunying An Blevis, Eli Blevis (Corresponding Author), Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee. (Contributing Editors, In Press/Production, expected March 2026). Seeing Interaction Design. Design Research Foundations Series (Ilpo Koskinen and Peter Gall Krogh Series Editors), Springer Nature Switzerland AG (Philosophy).



Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Zitao Zhang, Eli Blevis, and Selma Šabanović. 2025. "Robots that Evolve with Us: Modular Co-Design for Personalization, Adaptability, and Sustainability." arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.11622 Courtesy Copy

Jonas Frich, Nicola Besana, Eli Blevis, Davide Spallazo, Amna Qureshi, Jonna Häkkilä, Peter Gall Krogh, Marianne Petersen Graves. 2025 (December). Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Sustainable Interaction Design. IASDR 2025. Taipei, Taiwan.

Zaiqiao Ye, Zitao Zhang, Xinyao Ma, Eli Blevis, and Selma Sabanovic. 2025. Game of Life With Your Companion Robot: Exploring the Sustainable Future for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 41(13), 8330–8342. Publisher

Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Matyas Istvan Siteri, and Eli Blevis. 2025. 3R (Robots, Rooms, Relationships): Speculative Homes, Sentient Machines, and the Future of Domesticity. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 211–223. Courtesy Copy

Lingyun Chen, Zitao Zhang, Muwu Shan, Qing Xiao, and Eli Blevis. 2025. Sustainable Robot Future: A Speculative Design about Humanity, Robots, and Ecology. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 902–915. Courtesy Copy

Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Denise Lengyel, Mauro Toselli, John Miers, Violet Owen, Josh Urban Davis, Swen E Gaudl, Lanxi Xiao, Ernesto Priego, Kim Snooks, Laia Turmo Vidal, Eli Blevis, Nicola Privato, Patricia Piedade, Corey Ford, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Beatriz Severes, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Caroline Claisse, Raksanda Mehnaz Huq, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Anna Troisi, Ana O Henriques, Ar Grek, Gareth Mcmurchy, Ray Lc, Sara Nabil, Jacinta Jardine, Robert Collins, Andrey Vlasov, Yana Knight, Michele Cremaschi, Silvia Carderelli-Gronau, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, and Jean-Philippe Riviere. 2024. Traveling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 568, 1–14. Coutresy Copy

Shunying An Blevis, Maryam Heidaripour, Shaowen Bardzell, and Eli Blevis. "Advancing Non-Linear Design Thinking." In Ninth Computing within Limits 2023. LIMITS, 2023. Program

Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Josh Urban Davis, Mafalda Gamboa, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Claire Elisabeth Ohlenschlager, William Gaver, Eli Blevis, and Lian Loke. 2023. Is it Art, is it HCI? Exploring Tensions Between Practice and Research. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 525, 1–4. Courtesy Copy

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Sustainability

Design Education & Theory

Visual Thinking




Syllabi

Many older syllabi can be found here

About

Eli Blevis, Ph.D.
Professor of Informatics | School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington (2002-Present)
Visiting & Adjunct Professor of Interaction Design | School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2012-2019)
Faculty, The Institute of Design (ID) at Chicago (1994-2002)
eblevis [at] iu [dot] edu

Semantic Scholar Profile is here
Google Scholar index is here and here.
ACM author index is here.
DBLP Profile is here
ORCID Profile is here
ScholarGPS Profile is here




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