Raise a glass to our Finalists!

After hard work by our Peer Reviewers and thorough discussion by our 2023 jury, we’re proud to announce the 24 projects representing 10 countries that make up our 2023 Interaction Awards Finalists.

Our jury selected these submissions from a pool of 68 projects from more than 20 countries for recognition.

Connecting

Facilitating communication between people and communities

• The Colour of Resilience
• Everwhite
• DOLL-SITTER
• Oasis
• Jammies: Musical Instruments designed for People Living With Dementia

Disrupting

Re-imagining existing systems via new behaviors, usages, or markets

• Connected AEDs and the future of Emergency Response
• Carbon Insights: Empowering consumers to make more sustainable decisions
• IBM Watson Orchestrate
• CBDCs for SDGs
• FiDO / enhancing trust between driver and AI system in semi-autonomous vehicles

Empowering

Helping people to do things they otherwise couldn’t do

• Engaging men for better family health outcomes
• Equimetrics V-PRO – Smarter Equine Monitoring
• TactorBots: A Haptic Design Toolkit for Exploration of Emotional Robotic Touch

Engaging

Capturing attention, creating delight, and delivering meaning

• Alta Quanto: Design for disaster preparedness
• HSBC Accessibility Hub
• Heal Tutu–A family interactive product that educates about emergency prevention
• Little Signals

Expressing

Enabling self-expression and/or creativity

• Making Material You
• Mood Board Search – Enabling AI-powered Creative Expression
• PIIQ

Optimizing

Making daily activities more efficient

• Whome: Finding new homes for pre-loved items
• GardenSpace with Eden
• The Sound of Safety – Philips 2021 alarm sounds
• Annalise Enterprise

Join us on 6 May

We’ll celebrate our winners on 6 May in New York and online. And don’t forget to cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award too!