2023 Interaction Awards

Discover our shortlist!

After an intense sprint by our Community Peer Review Panel, we’re proud to share the 2023 Interaction Awards shortlist!

Everyone who submitted projects contributed to this diverse body of work. With submissions from more than 20 countries, this year’s shortlist of 68 projects includes first-time appearances from student teams all the way through to enterprise-level projects with global adoption. Introduced in 2021, the indie/non-profit category represented almost 10% of the 2023 submissions.

The domains covered by this year’s list hint at areas of focus from the last two years — empowering users to manage data, make sustainable decisions, increase accessibility, and the role that AI may play across several sectors. The audiences these projects aim to help and empower range from the young to old, from the social to the introverted, and from the comfortable to those who need comfort.

CONNECTING:

Facilitating communication between people and communities

• Beppi, National College of Art and Design, Ireland, Student, Concept
• DOLL-SITTER, Hunan University, China, Student, Concept
• Talktrack: Interactive recordings in Miro, Miro, Germany, In-house/Agency, Production
• Orlando International Airport: Terminal C, Gentilhomme, Canada, In-house/Agency, Production
• Halo — The Power to See Sound, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, Student, Concept
• Oasis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Student, Concept
• Everwhite, Hongik University, Korea, Student, Concept
• The Colour of Resilience, Made by Many, United Kingdom, In-house/Agency, Production
• Campfire — Let’s build remote stories together, School of Visual Arts, United States, Student, Concept
• Ai.Sell, School of Visual Arts, United States, Student, Concept
• PlantC App, Yanming Chen, United States, In-house/Agency, Concept

DISRUPTING:

Capturing attention, creating delight, and delivering meaning

• CBDCs for SDGs, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway, Student, Concept
• Connected AEDs and the future of Emergency Response, NewDealDesign, United States, In-house/Agency, Production
• HP Flow 2.0, HP Inc., United States, Enterprise, Production
• IBM Watson Orchestrate, IBM, United States, Enterprise, Production
• Carbon Insights: Empowering consumers to make more sustainable decisions, Rabobank, Netherlands, Enterprise, Production
• The digital as technique, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway, Student, Concept
• FiDO / enhancing trust between driver and AI system in semi-autonomous vehicles, Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden, Student, Concept
• Orbit — An Easier, Cheaper, & Greener Way of Parenting, Carnegie Mellon University, United States, Student, Concept
• Cisco Meraki and DesignMap Envision the Future of Network Management, Cisco Meraki & DesignMap, United States, In-house/Agency, Production
• Farewell Smartphone — Extend the service life of smartphones, HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, Student, Concept
• How does the Roomba really feel about dog shit?!, Chris Butler, United States, Indie/Nonprofit, Concept
• The Me In Me, New York University, United States, Student, Concept

EMPOWERING:

Enabling people to go beyond their limits

• Equimetrics V-PRO — Smarter Equine Monitoring, Frontend.com, Ireland, In-house/Agency, Production
• GoHome, The One Academy Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Student, Concept
• Engaging men for better family health outcomes, Dalberg, India, In-house/Agency, Production
• SlowMo — a digitally supported therapy service for people with distressing psychosis, Special Projects, United Kingdom, In-house/Agency, Concept
• Jammies: Musical Instruments designed for People Living With Dementia, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Student, Concept
• KARE MCM, Inition Inc., Korea, In-house/Agency, Production
• Kheti — Full Stack Credit Solution for Small Farmers, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, Student, Concept
• TactorBots: A Haptic Design Toolkit for Exploration of Emotional Robotic Touch, THING Lab, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, United States, Student, Concept
• PrivateHood — Protecting Users’ Online Privacy on Social Media, School of Visual Arts, United States, Student, Concept
• Koi- empowering kids with diabetes, Umeå University, Sweden, Student, Concept
• Starbucks Pro Design System, Tactile, United States, In-house/Agency, Production
• Teng Hok Gong AR, The One Academy, Malaysia, Student, Concept

ENGAGING:

Encouraging self-expression and/or creativity

• Smart Baseball Stadium UX/UI, INITION Inc., Korea, In-house/Agency, Production
• Artium — Immersive, Extended Reality in Art Museums, Carnegie Mellon University, United States, Student, Concept
• Heal Tutu — A family interactive product that educates about emergency prevention, Hunan University, China, Student, Concept
• Little Signals, Google LLC, United States, Enterprise, Concept
• Sculpture of the Other Side, George Brown College, Canada, Student, Concept
• Alta Quanto: Design for disaster preparedness, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Student, Concept
• Decreasing data demand — materialising online behavior for a sustainable digital future, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, Student, Concept
• Giving a Voice to Puppeted Walk-Around Characters, Beaudry Interactive, LLC, United States, In-house/Agency, Production
• HSBC Accessibility Hub, HSBC, United Kingdom, Enterprise, Production
• NVISION: A Carnegie Museum of Natural History Experience, Carnegie Mellon University, United States, Student, Concept
• XUESHI, Hunan University, China, Student, Concept
• Halo — The Power to See Sound, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, Student, Concept

EXPRESSING:

Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages, or markets

• Mood Board Search — Enabling AI-powered Creative Expression, Nord Projects, United Kingdom, In-house/Agency, Production
• PIIQ, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, India, Student, Concept
• Ling: Providing equity learning sources and emotional support for Chinese international students, United States, Indie / Nonprofit, Concept
• Future Supa: Interactive Speculative Design, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Student, Production
• Data Epics Studio Tilt, Design Research Studio at University of Washington, United States, Indie / Nonprofit, Concept
• Braided Lamp, Parsons School of Design, United States, Student, Concept
• Card79 / Kintsugi Upgrades, Card79, United States, In-house/Agency, Concept
• Making Material You, Google, United States, Enterprise, Production
• Speculation about future of the healthcare for parenthood, Halmstad University, Sweden, Student, Concept

OPTIMIZING:

Making daily activities more efficient

• Ollie | Smart Voice Assistant for Pittsburgh Regional Transit, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Student, Concept
• IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, IBM, United States, Enterprise, Production
• Augment AI Assistant, Augment AI Corp., United States, Enterprise Production
• GardenSpace with Eden, University of Cincinnati, United States, Student, Concept
• Google Assistant on the Pixel Watch, Google, United States, Enterprise, Production
• Kitchen Display System (KDS), Compass Digital, Canada, In-house/Agency Production
• Annalise Enterprise, Annalise-AI Pty Ltd, Australia, In-house/Agency Production
• The Sound of Safety — Philips 2021 alarm sounds, Philips, Netherlands, In-house/Agency Production
• Farewell Smartphone — Extend the service life of smartphones, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, Student, Concept
• ADT +, ADT, United States, Enterprise, Production
• Whome: Finding new homes for pre-loved items, Indiana University Bloomington, United States, Student, Concept
• FiDO / enhancing trust between driver and AI system in semi-autonomous vehicles, Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden, Student, Concept

The 2023 finalists will be announced at Interaction 23 in Zürich, Switzerland. Winners will be celebrated in New York on 6 May. People’s Choice voting opens on Monday, 13 February.

Originally published at https://awards.ixda.org on February 10, 2023.