Frank Feltham is a design researcher and educator with an interest in the moving body expressing “interaction” with sound-responsive and haptic digital technologies. Frank is a lecturer within the Industrial Design and Masters of Design Innovation and Technology programs at RMIT University Melbourne.

Frank’s research is focussed on design and its methods to shape knowledge on the use of interactive computational technologies and the moving body. His particular focus is on movement-based Interaction through creative digital computational methods with wearable technologies to explore the role of sound, visual and haptic information as feedback on human movement. The contexts for this research range from creative expression to health rehabilitation in collaboration with researchers from Biomedical Engineering at RMIT University.

Frank’s teaching presents design as an important contributor to the future of computational technologies by examining both the qualitative and quantitative nature of human interactive technological experience. This bridging of the qualitative and the quantitative experience of technology is critical to advance fields such as Interaction design and 3rd wave or creative HCI. This bridging enables the technology to be translated to areas such as healthcare and the arts as it privileges both the advancement that computation offers as well as the messiness of human experience.