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A portrait of Dr. Isabel Pedersen

Isabel Pedersen
PhD

Professor

Director, Decimal Lab

Director, Digital Life Institute

Master of Science (MSc) and PhD program in Computer Science, Communications and Digital Media Studies undergraduate program

Dr. Isabel Pedersen focuses on embodied computing, algorithmic culture, augmented reality, emergent media, and AI ethics.

Isabel.pedersen@ontariotechu.ca
905.721.8668 ext. 5874

Areas of expertise


  • PhD - Language and Literature University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
  • MA - Language and Professional Writing University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
  • BA - English Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Keynote: Embodied Computing, AI, & Socio-ethical Implications

Tempe, AZ November 12, 2020

IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (IEEE ISTAS20)

Networked bodies, AI, and our future digital lives

April 28, 2020

Big Thinking on the Hill Lecture Series, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Technology that Transforms Us

New York University, New York

A panel discussion, World Science Festival, Moderator David Pogue (CBS, New York Times)

Canada, Digital Lives, and the Geopolitical AI Race

Global Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario March 12, 2019

Presentation, invited speaker and distinguished panelist at The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence Symposium.

Humans, Machines, and Disruptive Dreams

Toronto, Ontario October 3, 2018

Walrus Talks

When You Are Your Computer: The Future of Embodied Computing

Berlin, Germany September 2, 2018

Keynote speaker at IFA+ Summit.

Counting for Something: Postmillennial Lives, Data, and Digital Futures

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and Massey College, University of Toronto March 23, 2018

Walter Gordon Symposium

Digital Humanities, Embodied Media, and Human Identity

Rowan University, New Jersey October 2, 2017

Sponsored talk by Cooper Medical School, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Communication and Creative Arts, Campbell Library.

Keynote: Digital Humanities, Embodied Technology and Selves

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario May 19, 2017

Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Technologies

From Carryables to Wearables to Implantables . . .

Edmonton, Alberta May 28, 2016

Canadian Association of Journalists 2016 Annual Conference, sponsored by the Canada Research Chairs Communications Office.

Second Skins, Wearable Technology, and Digital Life

Toronto, Ontario May 16, 2016

Subtle Technologies Festival Textile Museum of Canada

Presupposing A Future in Digital Telepathy

TEDxStMaryCSSchool May 16, 2016

TEDx Talks

Women and Wearables

MaRS Discovery District Toronto, Ontario February 3, 2015

We Are Wearables

From Carryables to Wearables to Implants and Beyond

Munich, Germany January 28, 2014

11th Wearable Technology Conference 2014: Europe

Invited Keynote Speaker: The Continuum of Embodiment: Wearable Technology, Digital Life and Youth Culture

Laredo, Texas June 18, 2014

58th International Council on Education for Teaching World Assembly

Beyond Mobility

Toronto, Ontario May 27, 2014

Mesh Conference

Writing Futures: Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous

Published in Springer, 2021
Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen

Augmentation Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Technical Communication: Designing Ethical Futures

Published in Routledge, 2023
Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen

Embodied computing: Wearables, implantables, embeddables, ingestibles

Published in The MIT Press, 2020
Isabel Pedersen and Andrew Iliadis (Editors)

Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media

Published in Parlor Press, 2013
Isabel Pedersen

The Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (2014 - 2021)

Canada Research Chair in Digital Life, Media, and Culture (2012-2022)
  • Global Ai Ethics, Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science