Heather Wiltse (PhD) is currently a researcher at Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University (Sweden). Her transdisciplinary research centers around trying to understand, articulate, and critique the role of digitally connected, responsive, and data-intensive things in experience and society in ways that can inform response-able design. Building on a background in informatics, human-computer interaction, design, and communication and culture, Heather’s research focus currently sits primarily at the intersection of critical design studies and philosophy of technology. Her recent book Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World (with Johan Redström) investigates and articulates what has become of things as computational processes, dynamic networks, and contextual customisation now emerge as factors as important as form, function and material were for designing, using and understanding objects in the industrial age.