Chuan Khoo is a creative practitioner specialising in interaction design, digital media and physical computing.

Working across design and art, his practice explores and reflects a necessary dualism that interrogates the twin edges of technology – its optimism, the darker side of its velocity, and the ethereal nature of our digital entanglements.

Chuan's research interests cross the fields of ubiquitous computing and tangible embodied interaction, designing bespoke embedded electronics and integrating wider digital frameworks into the craft of making. As part of his PhD, Chuan interrogated the notion and application of slow data: exploring design perspectives, strategies and developing technological frameworks as complementary approaches to existing digitally-augmented product and experience design. This has resulted in a range of spatial and scalar presentations: permanent interactive public art, augmented street furniture, domestic artefacts for critical reflection, and wearable electronics.

Chuan has a combined 20 years of experience working and teaching in the digital design, motion and immersive experiential media industry. He headed the Diploma in Interaction Design at Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore, and before joining Monash, taught tangible embodied interaction design studios and physical computing at RMIT University. He graduated as a Digital+Media MFA graduate with honours from the Rhode Island School of Design, and holds a PhD from RMIT University. Chuan has exhibited his work in Australia, Singapore and the United States.

Chuan is the author of Technologies for Interactivity, an open-source repository dedicated to sharing technical concepts and methods in physical computing. He is also the creator of the mote mini: a wearable-friendly IoT microcontroller platform designed to enable easier prototyping and learning for design students working with miniaturised embedded electronics. He has a rescue dog as his furever friend.