Graham Pullin is an interaction designer and lecturer in Interactive Media Design at the University of Dundee, an interdisciplinary programme run between the Schools of Computing and Design. His current research is focused on communication aids for people with speech and language impairments (also known as Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC) in which he is exploring new paradigms of interaction with synthesised speech to allow emotional expressiveness. This too is interdisciplinary, drawing on interaction design, phonetics, linguistics and psychology. He is writing a book about design and disability to be published by the MIT Press. Previously he had spent 9 years at design consultancy IDEO as an interaction designer and studio head, where he led the Social Mobiles, Vodafone Simply and Spyfish projects. His background also includes designing support furniture for children with cerebral palsy, research in medical engineering and education at Oxford University and the Royal College of Art.