Philip Van Allen
Professor Emeritus - AI And IxD at Commotion.AI
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Van Allen is a designer-researcher and founder with three decades of practice at the intersection of AI, interaction design, and embodied media, now serving as Professor Emeritus in AI and IxD. He invents frameworks and toolkits—like the Delft AI Toolkit and NETLab Toolkit—that let teams prototype agentic, legible behaviors in physical space to avoid black-box automation. Rooted in a DIY punk ethos and a BA in Experimental Psychology/Cognitive Science, he champions "Strategic Slowness" and animistic interaction to keep humans as senior partners rather than passive consumers. His work spans patents from Interval Research, collaborations with Philips, Nestlé and TU Delft, and a long record of training designers who now lead AI strategy at top tech firms. He’s actively seeking R&D collaborations to define post-LLM interaction models and build the Slow AI movement.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (60)
cpython10
wait10
arduino-library10
servo9
python9
micropython9
arduino9
embedded9
microcontroller8
particle8
argon7
watson-assistant7
cli7
ibm-watson7
photon7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
netlabtoolkit/VarSpeedServo
Jul 2017 - May 2022
Arduino library for servos that extends the standard servo.h library with the ability to set speed, and wait for position to complete
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 10 months
positionwaitspeedarduino-libraryability
pvanallen/delft-ai-toolkit
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Tool for Designing Smart Collaborative Things
Contributions:11 releases, 71 commits, 132 pushes in 5 months
collaborative
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