Professor Beth Kolko of the Department of Human Centred Design Engineering at the University of Washington, US, visited ICFOSS during 19-24 Feb 2013. Prof. Kolko conducted a 2-day workshop at Technopark on "Building Things That Think" that introduced participants to the emerging world of Open Source Hardware. She also delivered two lectures, the first at Trivandrum on the theme "User, Builder, Hacker, Thief: Creativity and Consumerism in a Digital Age" on 23rd Feb, and another talk at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), on "Human-Computer Interaction and Human Centered Design" on 25 Feb 2013.
